Former best friend and fellow director of Ukrainian energy company Burisma, Hunter Biden, is reportedly set to testify that Hunter Biden frequently put his father on the phone during discussions with foreign business partners or investors, directly challenging the Biden family’s narrative.
Joe Biden has repeatedly denied talking to his son Hunter about the latter’s international business affairs.
It is anticipated that 48-year-old Devon Archer will appear before the House Oversight Committee and state that he was there during these calls. A close friend of Archer’s told The New York Post that Archer has nothing to conceal, is not seeking retribution, and has no one to protect other than his family. Archer is testifying out of a feeling of civic responsibility. Reportedly feeling stifled by the “bogus” fraud prosecution, Archer is keen to share his mind in a safe space.
Archer’s testimony has allegedly resulted in death threats and warnings to his family, who have been urged to keep quiet.
Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, has shown interest in hearing from Archer regarding his observations of Vice President Joe Biden’s meetings with Hunter’s international business associates while in office.
Archer will talk about a dinner meeting with the Burisma board that took place on December 4, 2015, in Dubai. Vadym Pozharskyi, a senior official at Burisma, contacted them later that evening to say that the company’s owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, wanted to talk to Hunter Biden. Hunter allegedly put his father on speakerphone, introduced Pozharskyi and Zlochevsky, and said that they needed help throughout the call.
U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt had already spoken out against corruption in Odessa, naming Zlochevsky as an example, in September 2015. Hunter’s laptop revealed emails from Pozharskyi pressuring Hunter because Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Shokin was looking into Burisma. Pozharskyi sent an email to Hunter Biden and Archer in November 2015, demanding that they “close down” the probe into Burisma.
Shokin had taken possession of Zlochevsky’s Dubai-based property by February 2016.
Joe Biden threatened to cut off $1 billion in aid to Ukraine in March 2016, saying that Shokin was not doing enough to investigate corruption. During the same month that Biden boasted about firing Shokin at the Council on Foreign Relations, Shokin was let go.
Archer will also testify about two dinners Hunter Biden hosted for business associates from Ukraine, Russia, and Kazakhstan when Joe Biden visited Washington, D.C.
Hunter Biden’s father, Joe, was frequently included in business calls and meetings by way of speakerphone, according to Tony Bobulinski, a longtime business associate of Hunter’s. Likening Joe Biden’s position in the Biden family’s international influence peddling to that of a traditional company’ chairman, Bobulinski has said that the American public may be unaware of the true scope of Biden’s involvement.