Hunter Biden would dial in his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, on speakerphone into meetings with his overseas business partners, according to testimony expected before Congress this week from Devon Archer, the first son’s former best friend.
Archer, 48, who is facing jail for his role in a $60 million bond fraud, is scheduled to testify to the House Oversight Committee about meetings he witnessed that were attended by Joe Biden either in person or via speakerphone when Hunter would call his father and introduce him to foreign business partners or prospective investors.
“We are looking forward very much to hearing from Devon Archer about all the times he has witnessed Joe Biden meeting with Hunter Biden’s overseas business partners when he was vice president, including on speakerphone,” said Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the committee chairman.
One such meeting was in Dubai late in the evening of Friday, Dec. 4, 2015, after a board meeting of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which was paying Hunter $83,000 a month as a director.
Archer, who also was a director, is expected to testify that, after dinner with the Burisma board at the Burj Al Arab Hotel, he and Hunter traveled six miles north to the Four Seasons Resort Dubai at Jumeirah Beach to have a drink with one of Hunter’s friends.
While they were sitting outside at the bar, Vadym Pozharskyi, a senior Burisma executive, phoned to ask where they were because Burisma’s owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, needed to speak to Hunter urgently.
There Is More Evidence To Impeach Biden Over Ukraine Than There Ever Was For Trump
“If impeachment failed to tarnish Trump as much as Democrats hoped, it appeared successful in delegitimizing valid questions about alleged Biden corruption,” Hemingway wrote. “After impeachment, the mainstream media showed almost no interest in investigating Biden family business ties, which were largely characterized as a series of unsubstantiated and debunked allegations.”
In other words, the 2019 impeachment saga was more about protecting Biden than indicting Trump.
Fast-forward to last week, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, made public the bombshell FD-1023 FBI document, escalating Republican calls for a Biden impeachment. The document suggests President Biden engaged in a $10 million bribery scheme with an executive from the Ukrainian energy firm where Hunter Biden sat on the board, a legitimate “quid pro quo” that warrants investigating. Findings from the document, which was clawed into public view from the FBI, hint that the FD-1023 is just the tip of the iceberg.
A pair of whistleblowers from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) also detailed widespread interference in their criminal probe of Hunter Biden for lawmakers on Capitol Hill last week. Veteran agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler came forward publicly to reveal how the Biden administration hampered their investigation into the Biden family, which resulted in them recommending multiple felonies.
In June, Hunter Biden accepted a plea deal with Delaware prosecutors limited to two misdemeanor tax crimes and a single felony charge over illegal firearm possession. The latter would be forgiven after 24 months of sobriety, an agreement that would be in jeopardy if the mysterious White House cocaine were linked to the first family’s son, who wrote a book on his struggle with drug addiction. Serious felony charges, whistleblowers said, were left off the table in violation of DOJ policy. Whistleblowers also said the FBI kept the FD-1023 from federal tax investigators despite the document’s referral to the Delaware attorney’s office from former Attorney General Bill Barr.
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