During his 2019 presidential campaign, Joe Biden said to reporters in Iowa, “I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.”
Hunter Biden‘s old friend and lifelong business partner is reportedly expected to testify this week to congressional investigators that the Democratic president has been anything from mute and inactive when it comes to his son’s business ventures.
A new story from the New York Post says that Devon Archer will testify to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability and Accountability about the 24 or more times he saw Joe Biden join his son’s business calls or meetings with foreigners or potential investors.
This total is significantly higher than that indicated by the Obama White House visitor records alone, which revealed last year that Biden had met with at least 14 of Hunt’s clients.
Should Archer testify, it might undermine the White House’s denial of Biden’s involvement in his son’s international business transactions.
Last month, Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) subpoenaed Archer, citing Archer’s “significant role in the Biden family’s business deals abroad, including but not limited to China, Russia, and Ukraine. Additionally, while undertaking these ventures with the Biden family, [Mr. Archer] met with then-Vice President Biden on multiple occasions, including in the White House. Mr. Archer’s testimony is critical to the Committee’s investigation.”
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELArcher worked with Hunter Biden at the investment firm Rosemont Seneca Partners and on the board of the Ukrainian energy business Burisma. In February 2022, he was sentenced to prison for cheating a Native American tribal entity out of $60 million in bonds.
“The Committee is investigating foreign nationals’ attempts to target and coerce high-ranking U.S. officials’ family members by providing money or other benefits in exchange for certain actions. The Committee is considering legislative solutions to this problem,” Comer wrote. “The Committee is looking into legislative solutions to this problem,” Comer wrote, adding, “The Committee has identified Mr. Archer as possessing information relevant to its investigation and seeks your client’s testimony regarding these and other related topics.”
According to the New York Post’s Miranda Devine, Archer will testify about two dinners Hunter Biden put up in Washington, D.C. for his then-vice president father to meet with business associates from Ukraine, Russia, and Kazakhstan – once on April 16, 2015, and again in early 2016.
Vadym Pozharskyi, a scandal-plagued top Burisma Holdings official, reportedly attended the first dinner, as did Russian millionaire Yelena Baturina — whom a US Senate probe earlier accused of transferring $3.5 million to the first son — and Yury Luzhkov, the former mayor of Moscow.
Following the April event, Hunter allegedly received an email from Pozharskyi thanking him for introducing his father to him.
“Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving me an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together,” the Burisma CEO wrote.
The Post reports that one of the conversations Archer may be talking about took place in Dubai on December 4, 2015, after a meeting of the Burisma board.
Archer is likely to say that he and Hunter Biden departed a meal with the Burisma board at the Burj Al Arab Hotel, went to the Four Seasons Resort Dubai at Jumeirah Beach, and then received a phone call from Pozharskyi.
Pozharskyi was apparently interested in knowing “where they were because Burisma’s owner Mykola Zlochevsky needed to speak to Hunter urgently. Soon afterward, the two Ukrainians joined Hunter and Archer at the Four Seasons bar and Pozharskyi asked Hunter: ‘Can you ring your dad?'”
Hunter, according to reports, complied, contacted his father, put the vice president on loudspeaker, and then “introduced the Ukrainians to Joe Biden by name as ‘Nikolai and Vadym.’ He also said words to the effect that the Burisma bigwigs ‘need our support.'”
While Archer will reportedly testify that then-Vice President Biden only said “vague pleasantries” during the call, his actions a few days later were loud and decisive: Biden traveled to Ukraine and pressured the government to fire its top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who had launched an investigation into possible corruption at Burisma, a company that paid Hunter Biden well over $50,000 per month.
Joe Biden used $1 billion in US funds to Ukraine immediately after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula to force Ukraine to depose Shokin. Biden stated he did so because the prosecutor had not dealt effectively with corruption in Ukraine’s government.
TheBlaze previously reported on Archer’s participation in a 2015 email conversation with the first son and Pozharskyi in which the “ultimate purpose” of Hunter Biden’s ties with the company was stated out: to “close down… any cases/pursuits” against the company’s founder.
Hunter Biden had previously involved his father in a similar manner, according to the Post.
Another former Hunter Biden business associate, Tony Bobulinski, stated, “I am also aware of other Biden family business associates confirming that Joe would take phone calls from Hunter in the middle of business meetings and would weigh in via speakerphone.”
“Sitting with Hunter at Chateau Marmont before I first met Joe Biden on May 2, 2017, Hunter was adamant that his father takes his calls at any time, no matter what his lawyers say or with gatekeepers like Kate Bedingfield [former Biden spokesperson] playing interference,” Bobulinski added.
Bobulinski blew the whistle on Joe and Hunter Biden’s involvement with the Chinese energy company CEFC, which allegedly paid them millions, ahead of the 2020 election, despite Joe Biden’s insistence in the final presidential debate that he had “not taken a penny from any foreign source ever in [his] life.”
According to the Post, since it was announced that Archer would appear before Congress, his family has received death threats and orders to “keep your mouth shut.”
According to the Washington Examiner, Archer has already canceled three scheduled depositions before the committee.
Members of the committee are apparently hoping to hear Archer’s evidence before the August recess, which will allow the incriminating revelations to stew.
