According to lawmakers familiar with the transcribed interview, Devon Archer gave shocking testimony to Congress on Monday, telling lawmakers that Burisma Holdings pressured Hunter Biden in December 2015 to deal with a Ukrainian prosecutor who was looking into the company for corruption just before the vice president at the time took action to force the prosecutor's firing.
Hunter Biden was added to Burisma's board in 2014 as a result of his family's "brand," according to Archer's testimony to the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, the lawmakers claimed. At the time, the company was being accused of corruption by the US, UK, and Ukraine's own prosecutor general office.
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Chairman James Comer of the committee released a statement saying, "Devon Archer testified that the value of adding Hunter Biden to Burisma's board was "the brand" and confirmed that then-Vice President Joe Biden brought the most value to "the brand." In addition, Archer claimed that Burisma would have failed without "the brand."
Additionally, Archer told the committee that the current president of the United States spoke on the phone more than 20 times with his son's clients, directly refuting Joe Biden's long-held claims that he never met with his foreign business associates.
According to Archer's testimony, Joe Biden did not conduct specific business during these calls; rather, he was "put on the phone to sell the brand," the committee stated.
Even Democrats had to admit that Joe Biden had contacts with his son's business associates after the interview. And Comer charged that the president had misled the people of the United States.
"Devon Archer's testimony today shows that Joe Biden lied to the American people when he claimed he was unaware of and uninvolved in his son's business dealings. His son promoted Joe Biden as "the brand" in order to make money for the family. Over 20 times, Joe Biden, then the vice president of the United States, attended Hunter Biden's dinners with his foreign business partners in person or over the phone.
"Why did Joe Biden misrepresent his family's business activities and his involvement to the American people? What else might he be concealing from the American people, he continued.
In addition, Hunter Biden was under pressure in late 2015 to assist with Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin's corruption investigation as Joe Biden was getting ready to travel to Ukraine, according to testimony given to lawmakers by Archer, a former business partner at the Rosemont Seneca firm who was found guilty in 2018 in a tribal bond fraud scheme.
According to the committee's account of Archer's testimony, "In December 2015, Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Burisma, and Vadym Pozharski, an executive of Burisma, put constant pressure on Hunter Biden to get assistance from D.C. regarding the Ukrainian prosecutor, Viktor Shokin." "Shokin was looking into possible corruption at Burisma. Zlochevsky, Pozharski, and Hunter Biden "called D.C." to talk about the situation. To answer the call, Biden, Zlochevsky, and Pozharski moved aside.
A few days after that meeting, Joe Biden traveled to Ukraine in his capacity as vice president and launched an initiative to persuade the Ukrainian leader to fire Shokin. He eventually threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees if the termination did not take place. Defenders of Biden have long argued that the dismissal had nothing to do with Burisma and was the result of American policy because the Obama administration believed Shokin was dishonest.
Shokin has denied being dishonest and asserts that his investigation into Burisma led to his dismissal.
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The source added that Archer testified that the Russian oligarch Elena Baturina attended a business dinner at Café Milano in Washington, D.C. in the spring of 2014 that then-Vice President Biden attended with his son Hunter and other business associates.
Rep. Dan Goldman, a Democrat from New York, said after Archer's testimony that Archer remembered Hunter talking to his father "every day" on the phone.
According to Goldman's account of Archer's testimony, "he roughly estimated that about 20 times over the course of his 10-year business relationship with Hunter Biden, which would be about twice a year, that Hunter would put his father on speakerphone with whoever was at dinner — and there was no indication that he had any idea who was at dinner with them."
Hunter Biden was added to Burisma's board in 2014 as a result of his family's "brand," according to Archer's testimony to the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, the lawmakers claimed. At the time, the company was being accused of corruption by the US, UK, and Ukraine's own prosecutor general office.
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Chairman James Comer of the committee released a statement saying, "Devon Archer testified that the value of adding Hunter Biden to Burisma's board was "the brand" and confirmed that then-Vice President Joe Biden brought the most value to "the brand." In addition, Archer claimed that Burisma would have failed without "the brand."
Additionally, Archer told the committee that the current president of the United States spoke on the phone more than 20 times with his son's clients, directly refuting Joe Biden's long-held claims that he never met with his foreign business associates.
According to Archer's testimony, Joe Biden did not conduct specific business during these calls; rather, he was "put on the phone to sell the brand," the committee stated.
Even Democrats had to admit that Joe Biden had contacts with his son's business associates after the interview. And Comer charged that the president had misled the people of the United States.
"Devon Archer's testimony today shows that Joe Biden lied to the American people when he claimed he was unaware of and uninvolved in his son's business dealings. His son promoted Joe Biden as "the brand" in order to make money for the family. Over 20 times, Joe Biden, then the vice president of the United States, attended Hunter Biden's dinners with his foreign business partners in person or over the phone.
"Why did Joe Biden misrepresent his family's business activities and his involvement to the American people? What else might he be concealing from the American people, he continued.
In addition, Hunter Biden was under pressure in late 2015 to assist with Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin's corruption investigation as Joe Biden was getting ready to travel to Ukraine, according to testimony given to lawmakers by Archer, a former business partner at the Rosemont Seneca firm who was found guilty in 2018 in a tribal bond fraud scheme.
According to the committee's account of Archer's testimony, "In December 2015, Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Burisma, and Vadym Pozharski, an executive of Burisma, put constant pressure on Hunter Biden to get assistance from D.C. regarding the Ukrainian prosecutor, Viktor Shokin." "Shokin was looking into possible corruption at Burisma. Zlochevsky, Pozharski, and Hunter Biden "called D.C." to talk about the situation. To answer the call, Biden, Zlochevsky, and Pozharski moved aside.
A few days after that meeting, Joe Biden traveled to Ukraine in his capacity as vice president and launched an initiative to persuade the Ukrainian leader to fire Shokin. He eventually threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees if the termination did not take place. Defenders of Biden have long argued that the dismissal had nothing to do with Burisma and was the result of American policy because the Obama administration believed Shokin was dishonest.
Shokin has denied being dishonest and asserts that his investigation into Burisma led to his dismissal.
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The source added that Archer testified that the Russian oligarch Elena Baturina attended a business dinner at Café Milano in Washington, D.C. in the spring of 2014 that then-Vice President Biden attended with his son Hunter and other business associates.
Rep. Dan Goldman, a Democrat from New York, said after Archer's testimony that Archer remembered Hunter talking to his father "every day" on the phone.
According to Goldman's account of Archer's testimony, "he roughly estimated that about 20 times over the course of his 10-year business relationship with Hunter Biden, which would be about twice a year, that Hunter would put his father on speakerphone with whoever was at dinner — and there was no indication that he had any idea who was at dinner with them."
