For four hours, Hunter Biden’s ex-business partner and Burisma buddy Devon Archer took questions from the House Oversight Committee in a closed-door session; bombshells were dropped. Committee chair James Comer (R-KY) recapped Archer’s testimony in a statement.
Read Comer’s recap below:
“Devon Archer’s testimony today confirms Joe Biden lied to the American people when he said he had no knowledge about his son’s business dealings and was not involved. Joe Biden was ‘the brand’ that his son sold around the world to enrich the Biden family. When Joe Biden was Vice President of the United States, he joined Hunter Biden’s dinners with his foreign business associates in person or by speakerphone over 20 times. When Burisma’s owner was facing pressure from the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the company for corruption, Archer testified that Burisma executives asked Hunter to ‘call D.C.’ after a Burisma board meeting in Dubai.
“Why did Joe Biden lie to the American people about his family’s business dealings and his involvement? It begs the question what else he is hiding from the American people. The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability will continue to follow the Bidens’ money trail and interview witnesses to determine whether foreign actors targeted the Bidens, President Biden is compromised and corrupt, and our national security is threatened.”
Comer also identified the key takeaways from the hearing:
• Archer testified that the value of adding Hunter Biden to Burisma’s board was “the brand” aka Joe Biden and the Biden name.
• Archer admitted that “Burisma would have gone out of business if ‘the brand’ (Joe) had not been attached to it.”
• In December 2015, Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Burisma, and Vadym Pozharski, an executive of Burisma, placed constant pressure on Hunter Biden to get help from D.C. regarding the Ukrainian prosecutor, Viktor Shokin. Shokin was investigating Burisma for corruption.
• Devon Archer testified that Hunter Biden put then-Vice President Joe Biden on the speakerphone during business meetings over 20 times.
• Archer acknowledged that then-Vice President Biden had coffee with Jonathan Li, the CEO of BHR, in Beijing. Then-Vice President Biden even wrote a letter of recommendation for college for Li’s daughter.
• Archer confirmed Joe Biden was referred to as “my guy” by Hunter Biden.
• In spring of 2014, then-Vice President Biden attended a business dinner with his son, Hunter, and his associates at Café Milano in Washington, D.C. Elena Baturina, a Russian oligarch who is the widow of the former mayor of Moscow, attended the dinner. Notably, the Biden Administration’s public sanctions list for Russian oligarchs does not contain Baturina.
A former FBI official reacted to the bombshells on Fox News.
“As head of the criminal division, we saw this quite a bit in bribery cases, it’s called stream of services,” former FBI official Chris Swecker told Fox News as Archer left Capitol Hill.
“You sell access or something of value and you get something back in return, but it’s not an express quid pro quo. It’s just an understanding but if you can match up the services within a reasonable period of time, with the thing of benefit, in this case, $10 million, or whatever it is, then you then you have bribery,” Swecker said.
