Devon Archer, a former business partner of Hunter Biden, said in a new interview what he told Congress last year: Hunter’s business role when they worked together was to be a “lobbyist” who “leveraged a very powerful name.”
Hunter’s “role was to, you know, pave a path for success of Burisma by having kind of a halo from the U.S.,” Archer told Just the News in his first interview since being pardoned last month by President Donald Trump.
Archer and Hunter both served on the board of Burisma, which was one of the largest natural gas producers in Ukraine. Hunter was allegedly paid $999,996 by Burisma in 2016. That compensation declined to $665,000 in 2017 once his father ceased to be vice president.
Archer also said that former President Joe Biden had discussed business with his son. “I mean, there’s absolutely no doubt in my mind,” Archer said.
The younger Biden introduced his father to several foreign businessmen when the elder Biden still held high-ranking public office. In 2013, Hunter had then-Vice President Biden meet Jonathan Li, a Chinese businessman who ran the firm Bohai Capital. And the vice president was also known to have joined Hunter for dinner in 2014 with Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina.
Biden pardoned his son before he left office for any federal crimes he may have committed from Jan. 1, 2014, to Dec. 1, 2024. Biden had previously promised not to pardon his son. The move drew stark criticism.
“History will show Joe Biden and his family were the most corrupt occupiers of the White House of any family in the history of America,” Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, told The Daily Signal.
Archer, for his part, was pardoned by Trump last month for a 2018 conviction related to Native American tribal bonds.
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