Hunter Biden put dad on the phone while he was Vice President at least two dozen times, ex best friend set to testify
Hunter Biden's former business partner and friend is set to testify that Hunter called then Vice President Joe during meetings with clients, reports say.
Devon Archer, 48, was subpoenaed on June 12 by the House Oversight Committee, which is investigating Hunter's businesses and whether he and other members of the Biden family improperly traded on their connections.
Archer has so far canceled his scheduled depositions three times, The Washington Examiner reported, but still intends to speak to the committee. They go on recess for the summer break in August.
On Sunday, The New York Post reported Archer is expected to tell the committee Joe spoke to Hunter's business associates, including those at Burisma, at least 24 times.
Devon Archer, far left, is seen playing golf in the Hamptons with Hunter Biden (far right) and Joe Biden (next to Hunter). Archer is expected to testify about Hunter putting Joe on the phone to clients
Hunter and Joe Biden are pictured together in April 2016. Joe was vice president from 2009-17
Archer and another business associate, Tony Bobulinski, have both said Joe Biden offered brief greetings and platitudes rather than concrete agreements to Hunter's business partners.
But Archer's testimony will further challenge the White House's insistence that Joe Biden never had any knowledge of or involvement in his wayward son's business affairs.
'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 James Comer, a Republican for Kentucky who serves as the committee chairman.
Joe Biden, who was vice president from 2009-17, spoke to Hunter's partners on the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma in December 2015.
Hunter and Archer were in Dubai, Archer will reportedly testify, and Hunter told fellow Burisma board members they could speak to his father on the phone.
Hunter connected his father with Mykola Zlochevsky, Burisma's owner, and Vadym Pozharskyi, a senior Burisma executive, and while they gathered around the phone, Hunter told Joe that the Ukrainian businessmen 'need our support'.
Archer is also expected to say that Joe Biden only spoke vaguely during the brief call to greet the two businessmen.
James Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee, has confirmed they are looking forward to Archer's testimony. A date for his appearance is not yet known
Comer and the committee are interested in the communications because, at the time, Joe Biden was serving as President Barack Obama's 'point person' on Ukraine, and U.S. efforts to discourage corruption.
Burisma was being investigated for corruption, and in an email to Hunter and Archer in November 2015 - one month before the speakerphone call - Pozharskyi demanded that they use their influence to 'close down' the criminal investigation against Burisma, The New York Post reported.
Archer will also tell the committee, the paper said, about a dinner at a restaurant in the French capital, where Hunter took out his phone and called his father, in a bid to impress potential investors.
Archer will say that Hunter would introduce his father to the people on speakerphone in about one in four calls.
At other times, he would speak to his father without telling him he was on speakerphone - leaving open the possibility that Joe did not know his son was trading off his access.
Joe Biden is known to speak to his son and his grandchildren regularly: Hunter Biden in 2021 told CBS News they speak every night.
A close associate of Archer told the New York Post he is testifying about his time working with Hunter because he believes it is his 'civic duty.'
Archer was sentenced to one year and a day in prison in February 2022 for defrauding a Native American tribal entity and various investment advisory clients of tens of millions of dollars, in connection with the issuance of $60 million in bonds.
Archer's associate said he felt the fraud case was a way to silence him.
He has 'nothing to hide, no revenge to enact nor anyone to protect other than his family and he feels he has been handcuffed by the absurdly bogus [fraud] case into remaining silent,' the source told The Post.
'In a forum where he has immunity he can at least start to speak truth.'
Hunter Biden is seen on the balcony of the White House on July 4 along with First Lady Jill and First Son Hunter
The committee last week heard from two IRS whistleblowers, Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, who both said that Hunter Biden had been given preferential treatment by the Justice Department.
Hunter agreed a plea deal for lying on his tax returns.
He also agreed a deal over charges of lying on a gun permit application: he said he did not use drugs, when he has since admitted to addiction.
During a hearing of the committee on Wednesday, firebrand Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene raised eyebrows when she shared explicit images of Hunter Biden with prostitutes, taken from his laptop.
The Georgia congresswoman warned parents watching at home before her time questioning IRS whistleblowers that 'discretion is advised.'
The shocking moment went out on the C-SPAN live stream as well as other cable network channels airing the hearing, including Fox News.
'Should we be displaying this?' asked Democratic Ranking Member Jaime Raskin at one point.
Greene warned: 'Before we begin, I would like to let the committee and everyone watching at home that parental discretion is advised'
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene held up posters at an Oversight hearing on Wednesday showing explicit images of hunter Biden from his laptop allegedly with prostitutes
There are a slew of damning images from Hunter Biden's laptop that show him naked or shirtless, doing drugs and engaging in sex acts with what are allegedly escorts
Staff in the room at the hearing on Wednesday reacted with giggles and shock to the images Greene displayed on her poster board of the naked First Son
The images from Hunter's laptop hard drive were printed on poster board that Greene held up at the hearing.
The photos showed Hunter engaged in sex acts with prostitutes.
Greene claimed she was 'uncomfortable' showing the graphic photos to Congress, but insisted that 'the American people deserve to see' them.
'Before we begin, I would like to let the committee and everyone watching at home that parental discretion is advised,' Greene said.
Greene displayed the images in order to ask about Hunter Biden writing off taxes for costs related to escorts, prostitutes and sex clubs.
She also presented evidence that Hunter Biden paid for tickets for the escort to come out from Los Angeles to meet him in Washington, D.C. in June 2018.
'If he was purchasing her a plane ticket for sex and traveling across state lines, do you believe that is a violation (of law)?' Greene questioned the two IRS whistleblowers on Wednesday.
She added that the 'west coast assistant' noted in Hunter Biden's tax filings was likely this person he allegedly flew out from Los Angeles for prostitution purposes.
'That's not what paralegals do,' Greene said, to laughter from those watching the hearing in the room.
Source: Daily Mail
