Past is present. Buh buh buh Hunter. And because it was debunked and bullshit over a year ago, I guess it’s not relevant?
Unraveling the tale of Hunter Biden and $3.5 million from Russia
She [Russian billionaire Elena Baturina] gave him [Hunter Biden] $3.5 million so now I would think [Russian president Vladimir] Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it. I think we should know that answer.”
— Former president Donald Trump, in an interview with Just the News, March 29
“The FBI knew of the laptop, knew that Hunter received a $3.5 million wire transfer from the former mayor of Moscow’s wife.”
— Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), interview on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” April 3
Less than 50 days before the 2020 presidential election, the Republican staff of the Senate Finance and Homeland Security committees issued a joint reportwith a startling claim — that Joe Biden’s son Hunter had received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, a Russian billionaire and the widow of the former mayor of Moscow.
Trump quickly weaponized the factoid, mentioning it 42 times in the final weeks of the campaign. He sharply questioned Biden during the first presidential debate: “They were the ones involved with Russia, turns out not me, it was the opposite. But why did your son get three and a half million from the wife of the mayor of Moscow?”
An attorney for Hunter Biden denied the allegation in 2020 but it has lived on, especially in the right-wing media. Recently Trump called on Putin to reveal what he knows about it.
Trump’s call-out to Putin inspired us to dig deep into this story again. We interviewed people familiar with the transactions, reviewed property and real estate documents and probed for leads in the emails contained on a hard drive copy of the laptop Hunter Biden supposedly left behind for repair in a Delaware shop in April 2019. None of our sources would speak on the record because of continuing investigations of Hunter Biden and his business practices, but we sought confirmation from corporate filings and other records.
The flimsiness of the allegation was apparent from the start merely by carefully reading the Senate GOP report itself.
The executive summary offers a seemingly definitive bullet point almost exactly the same as Johnson’s comment: “Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow.” But the two pages in the report that deal with this transaction are considerably more nuanced, never saying outright that Hunter Biden received this money and making no claim that any laws were broken.
The GOP report itself does not provide evidence to back up the claim that became a talking point — and our reporting has unearthed the best explanation about what really happened. It’s a complicated story, involving a web of corporate entities, that eventually leads to the purchase of millions of dollars worth of real estate in Brooklyn by the Russian billionaire. We found no evidence that Hunter Biden was part of those transactions.
What isn't debunked is why did Biden not sanction Baturina when he sanctioned other Russian oligarchs?
Please, do tell. With links, please, seeing how you have the hottest and latest news fresh off the presses. Connect them dots. You like dots, don’t you?
It's a fair question to ask. I don't have the slightest clue but if we're going after Russian oligarchs and we skip over a couple of them, we should be asking why that happened. Can you agree that is an acceptable question?
Maybe because she doesn’t fall into one or more of the sanctioned categories as described here? Careful, it’s over a year old.
Vladimir Yevtushenkov is a Russian oligarch but he was skipped over on the sanctions as well..... why?
Because he met with the Brandon Crime Family in the Delaware compound and he agreed to donate billions to the Brandon Crime Family campaign by donating to Soros funded and set up dem super PACS through dem advocacy organizations like Save the Whales, PETA, Sierra Club, BLM, etc. Duh.
Context, you know? Without a link, Halifax2TheMax just further erodes what little credibility they have, if there’s anything left. Hell, as far as I know, Halifax2TheMax just typed shit up.
Do your own research. It’s gotten you this far. And do try to be original.
Past is present. Buh buh buh Hunter. And because it was debunked and bullshit over a year ago, I guess it’s not relevant?
Unraveling the tale of Hunter Biden and $3.5 million from Russia
She [Russian billionaire Elena Baturina] gave him [Hunter Biden] $3.5 million so now I would think [Russian president Vladimir] Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it. I think we should know that answer.”
— Former president Donald Trump, in an interview with Just the News, March 29
“The FBI knew of the laptop, knew that Hunter received a $3.5 million wire transfer from the former mayor of Moscow’s wife.”
— Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), interview on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” April 3
Less than 50 days before the 2020 presidential election, the Republican staff of the Senate Finance and Homeland Security committees issued a joint reportwith a startling claim — that Joe Biden’s son Hunter had received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, a Russian billionaire and the widow of the former mayor of Moscow.
Trump quickly weaponized the factoid, mentioning it 42 times in the final weeks of the campaign. He sharply questioned Biden during the first presidential debate: “They were the ones involved with Russia, turns out not me, it was the opposite. But why did your son get three and a half million from the wife of the mayor of Moscow?”
An attorney for Hunter Biden denied the allegation in 2020 but it has lived on, especially in the right-wing media. Recently Trump called on Putin to reveal what he knows about it.
Trump’s call-out to Putin inspired us to dig deep into this story again. We interviewed people familiar with the transactions, reviewed property and real estate documents and probed for leads in the emails contained on a hard drive copy of the laptop Hunter Biden supposedly left behind for repair in a Delaware shop in April 2019. None of our sources would speak on the record because of continuing investigations of Hunter Biden and his business practices, but we sought confirmation from corporate filings and other records.
The flimsiness of the allegation was apparent from the start merely by carefully reading the Senate GOP report itself.
The executive summary offers a seemingly definitive bullet point almost exactly the same as Johnson’s comment: “Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow.” But the two pages in the report that deal with this transaction are considerably more nuanced, never saying outright that Hunter Biden received this money and making no claim that any laws were broken.
The GOP report itself does not provide evidence to back up the claim that became a talking point — and our reporting has unearthed the best explanation about what really happened. It’s a complicated story, involving a web of corporate entities, that eventually leads to the purchase of millions of dollars worth of real estate in Brooklyn by the Russian billionaire. We found no evidence that Hunter Biden was part of those transactions.
What isn't debunked is why did Biden not sanction Baturina when he sanctioned other Russian oligarchs?
Please, do tell. With links, please, seeing how you have the hottest and latest news fresh off the presses. Connect them dots. You like dots, don’t you?
It's a fair question to ask. I don't have the slightest clue but if we're going after Russian oligarchs and we skip over a couple of them, we should be asking why that happened. Can you agree that is an acceptable question?
Maybe because she doesn’t fall into one or more of the sanctioned categories as described here? Careful, it’s over a year old.
Vladimir Yevtushenkov is a Russian oligarch but he was skipped over on the sanctions as well..... why?
Because he met with the Brandon Crime Family in the Delaware compound and he agreed to donate billions to the Brandon Crime Family campaign by donating to Soros funded and set up dem super PACS through dem advocacy organizations like Save the Whales, PETA, Sierra Club, BLM, etc. Duh.
So you're saying ANTIFA wasn't involved. Sick of your liberal lies.
Past is present. Buh buh buh Hunter. And because it was debunked and bullshit over a year ago, I guess it’s not relevant?
Unraveling the tale of Hunter Biden and $3.5 million from Russia
She [Russian billionaire Elena Baturina] gave him [Hunter Biden] $3.5 million so now I would think [Russian president Vladimir] Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it. I think we should know that answer.”
— Former president Donald Trump, in an interview with Just the News, March 29
“The FBI knew of the laptop, knew that Hunter received a $3.5 million wire transfer from the former mayor of Moscow’s wife.”
— Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), interview on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” April 3
Less than 50 days before the 2020 presidential election, the Republican staff of the Senate Finance and Homeland Security committees issued a joint reportwith a startling claim — that Joe Biden’s son Hunter had received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, a Russian billionaire and the widow of the former mayor of Moscow.
Trump quickly weaponized the factoid, mentioning it 42 times in the final weeks of the campaign. He sharply questioned Biden during the first presidential debate: “They were the ones involved with Russia, turns out not me, it was the opposite. But why did your son get three and a half million from the wife of the mayor of Moscow?”
An attorney for Hunter Biden denied the allegation in 2020 but it has lived on, especially in the right-wing media. Recently Trump called on Putin to reveal what he knows about it.
Trump’s call-out to Putin inspired us to dig deep into this story again. We interviewed people familiar with the transactions, reviewed property and real estate documents and probed for leads in the emails contained on a hard drive copy of the laptop Hunter Biden supposedly left behind for repair in a Delaware shop in April 2019. None of our sources would speak on the record because of continuing investigations of Hunter Biden and his business practices, but we sought confirmation from corporate filings and other records.
The flimsiness of the allegation was apparent from the start merely by carefully reading the Senate GOP report itself.
The executive summary offers a seemingly definitive bullet point almost exactly the same as Johnson’s comment: “Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow.” But the two pages in the report that deal with this transaction are considerably more nuanced, never saying outright that Hunter Biden received this money and making no claim that any laws were broken.
The GOP report itself does not provide evidence to back up the claim that became a talking point — and our reporting has unearthed the best explanation about what really happened. It’s a complicated story, involving a web of corporate entities, that eventually leads to the purchase of millions of dollars worth of real estate in Brooklyn by the Russian billionaire. We found no evidence that Hunter Biden was part of those transactions.
What isn't debunked is why did Biden not sanction Baturina when he sanctioned other Russian oligarchs?
Please, do tell. With links, please, seeing how you have the hottest and latest news fresh off the presses. Connect them dots. You like dots, don’t you?
It's a fair question to ask. I don't have the slightest clue but if we're going after Russian oligarchs and we skip over a couple of them, we should be asking why that happened. Can you agree that is an acceptable question?
Maybe because she doesn’t fall into one or more of the sanctioned categories as described here? Careful, it’s over a year old.
Vladimir Yevtushenkov is a Russian oligarch but he was skipped over on the sanctions as well..... why?
Because he met with the Brandon Crime Family in the Delaware compound and he agreed to donate billions to the Brandon Crime Family campaign by donating to Soros funded and set up dem super PACS through dem advocacy organizations like Save the Whales, PETA, Sierra Club, BLM, etc. Duh.
So you're saying ANTIFA wasn't involved. Sick of your liberal lies.
ANTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFA wasn’t directly involved. Their funding was laundered through Comet Pizza, the evidence of which was on Hillary’s server. Try to keep up.
Past is present. Buh buh buh Hunter. And because it was debunked and bullshit over a year ago, I guess it’s not relevant?
Unraveling the tale of Hunter Biden and $3.5 million from Russia
She [Russian billionaire Elena Baturina] gave him [Hunter Biden] $3.5 million so now I would think [Russian president Vladimir] Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it. I think we should know that answer.”
— Former president Donald Trump, in an interview with Just the News, March 29
“The FBI knew of the laptop, knew that Hunter received a $3.5 million wire transfer from the former mayor of Moscow’s wife.”
— Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), interview on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” April 3
Less than 50 days before the 2020 presidential election, the Republican staff of the Senate Finance and Homeland Security committees issued a joint reportwith a startling claim — that Joe Biden’s son Hunter had received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, a Russian billionaire and the widow of the former mayor of Moscow.
Trump quickly weaponized the factoid, mentioning it 42 times in the final weeks of the campaign. He sharply questioned Biden during the first presidential debate: “They were the ones involved with Russia, turns out not me, it was the opposite. But why did your son get three and a half million from the wife of the mayor of Moscow?”
An attorney for Hunter Biden denied the allegation in 2020 but it has lived on, especially in the right-wing media. Recently Trump called on Putin to reveal what he knows about it.
Trump’s call-out to Putin inspired us to dig deep into this story again. We interviewed people familiar with the transactions, reviewed property and real estate documents and probed for leads in the emails contained on a hard drive copy of the laptop Hunter Biden supposedly left behind for repair in a Delaware shop in April 2019. None of our sources would speak on the record because of continuing investigations of Hunter Biden and his business practices, but we sought confirmation from corporate filings and other records.
The flimsiness of the allegation was apparent from the start merely by carefully reading the Senate GOP report itself.
The executive summary offers a seemingly definitive bullet point almost exactly the same as Johnson’s comment: “Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow.” But the two pages in the report that deal with this transaction are considerably more nuanced, never saying outright that Hunter Biden received this money and making no claim that any laws were broken.
The GOP report itself does not provide evidence to back up the claim that became a talking point — and our reporting has unearthed the best explanation about what really happened. It’s a complicated story, involving a web of corporate entities, that eventually leads to the purchase of millions of dollars worth of real estate in Brooklyn by the Russian billionaire. We found no evidence that Hunter Biden was part of those transactions.
What isn't debunked is why did Biden not sanction Baturina when he sanctioned other Russian oligarchs?
Please, do tell. With links, please, seeing how you have the hottest and latest news fresh off the presses. Connect them dots. You like dots, don’t you?
It's a fair question to ask. I don't have the slightest clue but if we're going after Russian oligarchs and we skip over a couple of them, we should be asking why that happened. Can you agree that is an acceptable question?
Maybe because she doesn’t fall into one or more of the sanctioned categories as described here? Careful, it’s over a year old.
Vladimir Yevtushenkov is a Russian oligarch but he was skipped over on the sanctions as well..... why?
Because he met with the Brandon Crime Family in the Delaware compound and he agreed to donate billions to the Brandon Crime Family campaign by donating to Soros funded and set up dem super PACS through dem advocacy organizations like Save the Whales, PETA, Sierra Club, BLM, etc. Duh.
So you're saying ANTIFA wasn't involved. Sick of your liberal lies.
ANTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFA wasn’t directly involved. Their funding was laundered through Comet Pizza, the evidence of which was on Hillary’s server. Try to keep up.
I'm disappointed you couldn't work Jade Helm into this. You're losing your golden touch.
Past is present. Buh buh buh Hunter. And because it was debunked and bullshit over a year ago, I guess it’s not relevant?
Unraveling the tale of Hunter Biden and $3.5 million from Russia
She [Russian billionaire Elena Baturina] gave him [Hunter Biden] $3.5 million so now I would think [Russian president Vladimir] Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it. I think we should know that answer.”
— Former president Donald Trump, in an interview with Just the News, March 29
“The FBI knew of the laptop, knew that Hunter received a $3.5 million wire transfer from the former mayor of Moscow’s wife.”
— Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), interview on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” April 3
Less than 50 days before the 2020 presidential election, the Republican staff of the Senate Finance and Homeland Security committees issued a joint reportwith a startling claim — that Joe Biden’s son Hunter had received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, a Russian billionaire and the widow of the former mayor of Moscow.
Trump quickly weaponized the factoid, mentioning it 42 times in the final weeks of the campaign. He sharply questioned Biden during the first presidential debate: “They were the ones involved with Russia, turns out not me, it was the opposite. But why did your son get three and a half million from the wife of the mayor of Moscow?”
An attorney for Hunter Biden denied the allegation in 2020 but it has lived on, especially in the right-wing media. Recently Trump called on Putin to reveal what he knows about it.
Trump’s call-out to Putin inspired us to dig deep into this story again. We interviewed people familiar with the transactions, reviewed property and real estate documents and probed for leads in the emails contained on a hard drive copy of the laptop Hunter Biden supposedly left behind for repair in a Delaware shop in April 2019. None of our sources would speak on the record because of continuing investigations of Hunter Biden and his business practices, but we sought confirmation from corporate filings and other records.
The flimsiness of the allegation was apparent from the start merely by carefully reading the Senate GOP report itself.
The executive summary offers a seemingly definitive bullet point almost exactly the same as Johnson’s comment: “Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow.” But the two pages in the report that deal with this transaction are considerably more nuanced, never saying outright that Hunter Biden received this money and making no claim that any laws were broken.
The GOP report itself does not provide evidence to back up the claim that became a talking point — and our reporting has unearthed the best explanation about what really happened. It’s a complicated story, involving a web of corporate entities, that eventually leads to the purchase of millions of dollars worth of real estate in Brooklyn by the Russian billionaire. We found no evidence that Hunter Biden was part of those transactions.
What isn't debunked is why did Biden not sanction Baturina when he sanctioned other Russian oligarchs?
Please, do tell. With links, please, seeing how you have the hottest and latest news fresh off the presses. Connect them dots. You like dots, don’t you?
It's a fair question to ask. I don't have the slightest clue but if we're going after Russian oligarchs and we skip over a couple of them, we should be asking why that happened. Can you agree that is an acceptable question?
Maybe because she doesn’t fall into one or more of the sanctioned categories as described here? Careful, it’s over a year old.
Vladimir Yevtushenkov is a Russian oligarch but he was skipped over on the sanctions as well..... why?
Because he met with the Brandon Crime Family in the Delaware compound and he agreed to donate billions to the Brandon Crime Family campaign by donating to Soros funded and set up dem super PACS through dem advocacy organizations like Save the Whales, PETA, Sierra Club, BLM, etc. Duh.
So you're saying ANTIFA wasn't involved. Sick of your liberal lies.
ANTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFA wasn’t directly involved. Their funding was laundered through Comet Pizza, the evidence of which was on Hillary’s server. Try to keep up.
I'm disappointed you couldn't work Jade Helm into this. You're losing your golden touch.
Shhhhhhhh, that’s why there are FEMA camps. They’re coming for YOU!
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Republicans truly don’t give a shit, so they have to fabricate an equivalent with the Biden crime family in the hopes that democrats will respond with the same apathy.
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Hunter Biden business associate testifies he has no knowledge of wrongdoing by Joe Biden
Republicans released a 141-page transcript of Devon Archer's testimony on the same day former President Donald Trump is set to be arraigned in Washington.
Devon Archer, right, Hunter Biden’s former business partner, after testifying to the House Oversight Committee on July 31. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
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Aug. 3, 2023, 12:27 PM EDT / Updated Aug. 3, 2023, 1:39 PM EDT
WASHINGTON — Hunter Biden’s business associate, Devon Archer, testified before the House Oversight Committee that he has no knowledge that then-Vice President Joe Biden changed U.S. foreign policy to help his son and that he's not aware of any wrongdoing by the elder Biden, according to transcripts of his testimony released Thursday.
“I have no basis to know if he altered policy to benefit his son. … I have no knowledge,” Archer testified in the closed-door hearing earlier this week.
One of the GOP’s key witnesses in its investigation into the Bidens, Archer told lawmakers that Hunter Biden repeatedly used the Joe Biden “brand” to protect Burisma "so people would be intimidated to mess with them" legally and politically. But he quickly added: "On this line of questioning, I have no, like, proof."
Archer also said that he did not disagree with the conclusion that Hunter Biden’s role on the board of Ukrainian energy firm Bursma had no effect on U.S. foreign policy. And Archer testified that he had no knowledge of any wrongdoing by Joe Biden as it related to his son’s business dealings.
“No, I’m not aware of any,” Archer said during his more than five-hour deposition.
The witness also said there were roughly 20 phone calls in which Hunter Biden would put his father on speakerphone in the presence of business associates, but he said that the brief conversations focused on pleasantries like the weather or fishing, not official business.
But Archer testified that those mundane phone calls were meant to convey access and power. Without Hunter Biden, Burisma might not have survived, Archer said.
“I think Burisma would have gone out of business if it didn’t have the brand attached to it. That’s my, like, only honest opinion,” Archer said.
The witness also described two dinners — a birthday dinner and another on the World Food Programme — attended by Hunter and Joe Biden in 2014 and 2015 at Washington’s Cafe Milano. Some foreign business executives and politicians were present, but Archer said Joe Biden didn’t discuss business. Hunter Biden was chairman of the board for World Food Program USA at the time.
Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., released Archer’s 141-page transcript on the same day former President Donald Trump is set to be arraigned at a federal courthouse in Washington for charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The testimony hands Republicans descriptive details about Hunter Biden and more ammunition as they accuse the Justice Department of aggressively prosecuting Trump for multiple crimes while going easy on Hunter Biden on federal tax and other charges.
But the transcripts appear to back up Democrats, including Reps. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., who have argued that Comer’s investigation into the Bidens has revealed no direct evidence that Joe Biden was involved in his son’s business dealings, was influenced by them or broke the law.
“Once again, Committee Republicans’ priority investigation into President Biden has failed to produce any evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden. On Monday, Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s former business associate, confirmed in a transcribed interview that President Biden was never involved in Hunter’s business dealings, never profited from such dealings, and never took official action in relation to these business dealings,” Raskin, the top Democrat on the Oversight panel, said in a statement.
“The transcript released today shows the extent to which Congressional Republicans are willing to distort, twist, and manipulate the facts presented by their own witness just to keep fueling the far-right media’s obsession with fabricating wrongdoing by President Biden in a desperate effort to distract from Donald Trump’s third indictment and the overwhelming evidence of his persistent efforts to undermine American democracy.”
At one point in the deposition, Archer’s attorney Matthew Schwartz, wanted his client to clarify several points Archer made earlier about the limitations of his knowledge about Joe Biden.
“It is still true that you are not aware that Hunter Biden ever discussed policy with his father, discussed business with his father, influenced American policy for purposes of his business or otherwise caused the Vice President or asked the Vice President to do anything improper, right?” Schwartz asked.
“That’s my understanding,” Archer replied.
Goldman, the Democratic lawmaker, participated in the deposition and asked Archer to clarify that Hunter Biden was not necessarily selling access to Joe Biden, then the vice president, but the “illusion of access.”
“So is it fair to say that Hunter Biden was selling the illusion of access to his father? Goldman asked.
“Yes,” Archer replied, adding that the Biden son and father spoke almost daily “but nothing of material was discussed.”
Earlier in the deposition, Archer told Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., “It’s fair to say” that when he refers to Hunter Biden selling the Biden “brand” he is referring to the Joe Biden brand. But then, later in the deposition, after a break and conferring with his counsel, Archer said Hunter Biden was creating the appearance of access to Washington in general.
“Overall, it’s the appearance to all of D.C.,” Archer said.
The Trump family is briefly mentioned during Archer’s testimony. After questioning from Goldman, Archer recalled he did once “play behind” Donald Trump in golf. Trump approached him at the clubhouse and said he did not like Archer’s athletic shorts.
“Would you say that Donald Trump’s children benefit from their last name being Trump?” Goldman asked.
Definitive evidence that the Slow Woke Brandon Crime Family works for the Devil! Pages 18 and 19 of Devon Archer's interview transcript. Pray 'Murica, PRAY!
The payments appear to be approximately $83,000 per month that were
12 deposited into the Rosemont Seneca Bohai account from Burisma Holdings.
13 Was that what you were to be paid? Was it a million dollars per year?
14 A It was -- so, from a board perspective, it was a million dollars per year on the
15 board contracts, but the -- which was -- again, it was more than -- you know, there's
16 associated work. It wasn't just sitting there and, you know, going to board meetings.
17 But there was a lot of work that was done.
18 It was actually split. During my tenure, Tri Global was the cap-intro group. It
19 was actually split three ways. I don't know, you know, where it went after my time.
20 But that's -- initially, it was the sum total, kind of a take-home for, you know, the
21 company, excluding expenses, just gross, was 666 per year.
22 And then that obviously changed. I was, you know, kicked off or asked to resign
23 from the board when I got into my next issue.
24 Q Was Hunter Biden's agreement also that he would receive $83,000 per
25 month --
1 A Yes.
2 Q -- from Burisma?
3 A Yes. That's what I'm saying. So two -- 83 in two different -- once a month
Repub Committee claimed evidence presented in the hearing came from the alleged Hunter Biden laptop's hard drive and yet haven't shared the hard drive with dems on the committee. Gee, I wonder why that might be? If anyone believes these hearings are legitimate and a true effort at getting to the truth, you better hope these fucks don't gain more power as this tactic will be the same for anyone charged with a crime, withholding of "evidence" from the defense. They should be ashamed of themselves but they have no shame. Just bended knee. From pages 19 and 20:
13 Q The subject is "Re: Notes from the 13 hr" -- meaning "hour" -- "plane ride."
14 And I want to direct your attention to paragraph 6.
15 A Uh-huh.
16 Q My understanding of this email is that Hunter Biden has -- is the lower case
17 statement and your response is the caps, all caps statement.
18 Mr. Schwartz. Well, these emails don't come from Mr. Archer, so I don't think
19 we're going to be able to authenticate the emails or tell you who wrote what. But
20 you're certainly welcome to ask about the content of these.
21 Mr. Mandolfo. Well, do you recognize this email?
22 Sorry to interrupt. Can we know where this document comes
23 from?
24 Mr. Abourisk. It comes from the hard drive.
25 The hard drive that is in the possession of committee
1 Republicans?
2 Mr. Mandolfo. Yes.
3 So there's --
4 Mr. Goldman. Where did you get that hard drive?
5 Mr. Mandolfo. Go off the record for a second.
6 [Discussion off the record.]
7 Mr. Mandolfo. Showing you exhibit 7, paragraph 6. I'll read it out loud. It's
8 from you to Hunter Biden.
9 "Need to determine what we consider expenses to be deducted from potential
10 Burisma 'pay'" -- "pay" in quotations -- "before we determine true split number with
11 Alex."
12 Mr. Schwartz. I don't know to whom, but I object to your characterization as
13 that's "from you to Hunter Biden."
14 Mr. Archer. Yeah, I --
15 Mr. Goldman. Can we just clarify on the record, I want to clarify on the record.
I found this to be a good summary. While the Hill is owned by a GOP megadonor, I feel like the news is fairly straightforward. It was off the chain before they fired John Solomon.
I found this to be a good summary. While the Hill is owned by a GOP megadonor, I feel like the news is fairly straightforward. It was off the chain before they fired John Solomon.
But they left off the testimony of Devon taking his son to breakfast at the Executive Office Building or the Naval Observatory and Creepy Slow Brandon took the kid on a tour and showed him how thick the limousine glass was and discussed his paper mache model of the White House for his 3rd grade class. I’m sure Gym Jordan thought it was going to be another bombshell meeting because Hunter was present. Never discussed burisma. Never discussed Ukraine. Buh, buh, buh they met with Hunter! From 2014 and the repubs wanted to know who was at this meeting. Hmmmmm, could have requested the visitor logs from the archives, maybe? Nevermind that bill DISbarred and POOTWH’s DOJ already investigated this and found a nadaburder.
First questions out of the box from the dem members of the committee hearing, pages 89 & 90. If you can't see/read/comprehend through the bullshit this is, there is no hope (Reminder, GYM Jordan and Andy Biggs are asking questions with their committee staff attorney asking the majority of the questions; Comer didn't even show up for the "Crime of the Century" hearing he chairs, what do you think that says?):
23 Q Good afternoon, Mr. Archer.
24 A Thank you.
25 Q Before I start with my questions, I want to come back to documents you
1 were shown during the Republicans' round of questioning. You were shown various
2 documents that appear to be emails.
3 A Uh-huh.
4 Q The majority staff has represented -- the Republican staff has represented
5 that they come either from the internet or from a hard drive in their possession that they
6 have refused to date to provide to committee Democrats.
7 Mr. Archer, I want to be clear. You are unable to authenticate these emails. Is
8 that correct?
9 A I am unable to authenticate. That is correct.
10 Q You don't have a personal memory or recollection that would allow you to
11 determine whether these emails are, in fact, authentic.
12 A I don't -- I don't know if they're authentic. They're kind of in the genre of
Pages 101 through 104. How many remember that two repub senate committees investigated Sleepy Woke Brandon Crime Family when they had the majority and found, you guessed it, nadaburders, sans catsup. How many remember that? So we had Bill DISbarred and POOTWH's DOJ AND a repub senate investigation both come up with NADABURDERS SANS CATSUP. Because of 'Muricans' extremely short memory spans, less than two weeks, I think, and yet, here we are:
15 Q So Congress, particular Republicans in Congress, have been talking about
16 Burisma for a long time.
17 A Uh-huh.
18 Q And so forgive me, but I want to bring up 2020.
19 In 2020, going back a few years, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and
20 Governmental Affairs and the Senate Finance Committee, which were then under
21 Chairman Johnson and Chairman Grassley, Republican chairmen, conducted an extensive
22 investigation in an effort to show some connection between Hunter Biden's work on
23 behalf of Burisma and then Vice President Biden's role in carrying out official U.S. policy in
24 Ukraine.
25 As part of that investigation, there were 46 subpoenas issued, 50 hours of
1 transcribed interviews of 10 witnesses, reviews of tens of thousands of pages of
2 documents over the course of a year-long investigation.
3 A Uh-huh.
4 Q At the conclusion of that investigation, Senate minority staff issued a report
5 summarizing the findings. And I'd like to read those for you.
6 "Every witness interviewed for this investigation testified that Vice President
7 Biden did not alter United States foreign policy to benefit his son Hunter Biden, and that
8 Hunter Biden's presence on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma had no
9 effect on U.S. foreign policy. (Italics are mine for further emphasis)
10 "Every witness stated that Hunter Biden and his associates had no role in the
11 formulation of U.S. policy, that Hunter Biden's role did not influence U.S. foreign policy
12 decisions, and that Vice President Biden carried out U.S. foreign policy in the interest of
13 the United States.
14 "The investigation's evidence, set forth in this Minority report, confirms there was
15 no corruption, wrongdoing, or impropriety on the part of" the Vice President."
16 Having read that for you, I have a few questions for you based on your own
17 knowledge and experience.
18 So based on your own knowledge and experience -- your relationship with Hunter
19 Biden, your time on Burisma's board, and the entirety of your knowledge and
20 experience -- do you have any basis to disagree with the conclusion that, quote, "Vic
21 President Biden did not alter U.S. foreign policy to benefit his son Hunter Biden"?
22 A I have no basis to know if he altered. I have no basis to know if he altered
23 policy to benefit his son.
24 Q So you have no knowledge --
25 A I have no knowledge. Sorry.
1 Q -- of him --
2 A Yes, I have no knowledge.
3 Q -- altering U.S. policy to benefit his son.
4 A I have no knowledge.
5 Q You -- do you have any basis to disagree with the conclusion that "Hunter
6 Biden's presence on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma had no effect on
7 U.S. foreign policy"?
8 A Not directly. You mean like making laws? I don't -- I don't think so.
9 Mr. Goldman. Foreign policy.
10 Mr. Archer. No -- no -- no on foreign policy.
11
12 Q No basis to disagree with that conclusion.
13 A No.
14 Q Do you have any basis to disagree with the conclusion that "Hunter Biden's
15 role did not influence U.S. foreign policy decisions"?
16 A I have -- yeah, I have no basis.
17 Q Do you have any basis to disagree with the conclusion that "Vice President
18 Biden carried out U.S. foreign policy in the interest of the United States"?
19 A I have no basis to judge.
20 Q Or to disagree with that.
21 A Or disagree.
22 Q You have no knowledge -- nothing based on your knowledge or experience
23 contradicts this conclusion.
24 A No.
25 Q Does anything in your knowledge or experience contradict the conclusion
1 that "there was no corruption, wrongdoing, or impropriety on the part of Vice President
2 Biden"?
3 A I have no basis to know.
4 Q The report also found, quote, "No --"
5 Mr. Goldman. I'm sorry. You have no basis to know or is that a no?
6 Mr. Archer. I have -- I have -- I would have no idea.
7 Mr. Goldman. No basis --
8 Mr. Schwartz. Are you aware of any wrongdoing by Vice President Biden?
9 Mr. Archer. No, I'm not aware of any.
10
11 Q So based on your knowledge and experience, you have no evidence that
12 would contradict any of these conclusions I just read.
13 A No.
14 Q The report also found, quote, "No evidence that any action of the U.S.
15 Government or any U.S. official was taken to benefit Burisma or Hunter Biden."
16 Do you have any evidence or knowledge that contradicts this conclusion?
17 A No.
18 Q So based on everything you saw, heard, and observed, did you have any
19 knowledge of Joe Biden having any involvement with Burisma?
20 A No -- not direct, no.
21 Q No involvement of Joe --
22 A No.
23 Q -- Biden with Burisma.
24 A No. My only thought is that I think Burisma would have gone out of
25 business if it didn't have the brand attached to it. That's my, like, only honest opinion.
For you golfers on here, is this normal golfing behavior? On a golf course? Ever have someone playing ahead of you or behind you come up and say something about your attire? See, reading is fun! Pages 132 to 133:
9 Mr. Goldman. Let me ask you a followup. You've used this Jamie Dimon
10 analogy, and I think you used it during the majority's time of questioning in reference to
11 your description of the brand.
12 Mr. Archer. Uh-huh.
13 Mr. Goldman. Just so I can understand what you mean by that, let's take the
14 Trump family.
15 Mr. Archer. Sure.
16 Mr. Goldman. Would you say that the Trump family has a brand?
17 Mr. Archer. Absolutely.
18 Mr. Goldman. And would you say that Donald Trump, Jr., gets access and --
19 Mr. Schwartz. This is so out of scope. He doesn't know anything about the
20 Trump family.
21 Mr. Goldman. Well, did you play golf with Donald Trump?
22 Mr. Archer. No, I haven't played golf with him.
23 Mr. Goldman. You never did play golf with Donald Trump?
24 Mr. Archer. Oh, I did play behind him. Sorry. Scratch that. I played behind (Italics are mine for added emphasis)
25 him. And then he came up to me at the clubhouse and talked -- he didn't know who I
1 was, but he didn't like my, like, athletic shorts.
2 Mr. Goldman. It is within the scope. If you're going to bring up Jamie Dimon,
3 then we get to clarify what he means by "the brand."
If you feel so inclined to peruse the fine work of the repubs getting answers for the 'Murican people yourself. I hate reading press synopisis when the real deal is available. Little tidbits here and there that never get reported. And much richer context. Context matters, folks. Some folks on here could benefit from reading source documents as well, rather than relying upon the news source of their choice.
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Justice Department names special counsel in Hunter Biden case
The surprise announcement appeared aimed at rebutting GOP criticism that the process has been politicized.
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday appointed U.S. Attorney David Weiss of Delaware as special counsel in the ongoing investigation into Hunter Biden’s tax case, a move that appeared aimed at rebutting Republican criticism that the process had been politicized.
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Hunter Biden business associate testifies he has no knowledge of wrongdoing by Joe Biden
WASHINGTON — Hunter Biden’s business associate, Devon Archer, testified before the House Oversight Committee that he has no knowledge that then-Vice President Joe Biden changed U.S. foreign policy to help his son and that he's not aware of any wrongdoing by the elder Biden, according to transcripts of his testimony released Thursday.
“I have no basis to know if he altered policy to benefit his son. … I have no knowledge,” Archer testified in the closed-door hearing earlier this week.
One of the GOP’s key witnesses in its investigation into the Bidens, Archer told lawmakers that Hunter Biden repeatedly used the Joe Biden “brand” to protect Burisma "so people would be intimidated to mess with them" legally and politically. But he quickly added: "On this line of questioning, I have no, like, proof."
Archer also said that he did not disagree with the conclusion that Hunter Biden’s role on the board of Ukrainian energy firm Bursma had no effect on U.S. foreign policy. And Archer testified that he had no knowledge of any wrongdoing by Joe Biden as it related to his son’s business dealings.
“No, I’m not aware of any,” Archer said during his more than five-hour deposition.
Hunter Biden’s former business partner testifies to House panel
AUG. 1, 202301:25The witness also said there were roughly 20 phone calls in which Hunter Biden would put his father on speakerphone in the presence of business associates, but he said that the brief conversations focused on pleasantries like the weather or fishing, not official business.
But Archer testified that those mundane phone calls were meant to convey access and power. Without Hunter Biden, Burisma might not have survived, Archer said.
“I think Burisma would have gone out of business if it didn’t have the brand attached to it. That’s my, like, only honest opinion,” Archer said.
The witness also described two dinners — a birthday dinner and another on the World Food Programme — attended by Hunter and Joe Biden in 2014 and 2015 at Washington’s Cafe Milano. Some foreign business executives and politicians were present, but Archer said Joe Biden didn’t discuss business. Hunter Biden was chairman of the board for World Food Program USA at the time.
Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., released Archer’s 141-page transcript on the same day former President Donald Trump is set to be arraigned at a federal courthouse in Washington for charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The testimony hands Republicans descriptive details about Hunter Biden and more ammunition as they accuse the Justice Department of aggressively prosecuting Trump for multiple crimes while going easy on Hunter Biden on federal tax and other charges.
But the transcripts appear to back up Democrats, including Reps. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., who have argued that Comer’s investigation into the Bidens has revealed no direct evidence that Joe Biden was involved in his son’s business dealings, was influenced by them or broke the law.
“Once again, Committee Republicans’ priority investigation into President Biden has failed to produce any evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden. On Monday, Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s former business associate, confirmed in a transcribed interview that President Biden was never involved in Hunter’s business dealings, never profited from such dealings, and never took official action in relation to these business dealings,” Raskin, the top Democrat on the Oversight panel, said in a statement.
“The transcript released today shows the extent to which Congressional Republicans are willing to distort, twist, and manipulate the facts presented by their own witness just to keep fueling the far-right media’s obsession with fabricating wrongdoing by President Biden in a desperate effort to distract from Donald Trump’s third indictment and the overwhelming evidence of his persistent efforts to undermine American democracy.”
At one point in the deposition, Archer’s attorney Matthew Schwartz, wanted his client to clarify several points Archer made earlier about the limitations of his knowledge about Joe Biden.
“It is still true that you are not aware that Hunter Biden ever discussed policy with his father, discussed business with his father, influenced American policy for purposes of his business or otherwise caused the Vice President or asked the Vice President to do anything improper, right?” Schwartz asked.
“That’s my understanding,” Archer replied.
Goldman, the Democratic lawmaker, participated in the deposition and asked Archer to clarify that Hunter Biden was not necessarily selling access to Joe Biden, then the vice president, but the “illusion of access.”
“So is it fair to say that Hunter Biden was selling the illusion of access to his father? Goldman asked.
“Yes,” Archer replied, adding that the Biden son and father spoke almost daily “but nothing of material was discussed.”
Earlier in the deposition, Archer told Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., “It’s fair to say” that when he refers to Hunter Biden selling the Biden “brand” he is referring to the Joe Biden brand. But then, later in the deposition, after a break and conferring with his counsel, Archer said Hunter Biden was creating the appearance of access to Washington in general.
“Overall, it’s the appearance to all of D.C.,” Archer said.
The Trump family is briefly mentioned during Archer’s testimony. After questioning from Goldman, Archer recalled he did once “play behind” Donald Trump in golf. Trump approached him at the clubhouse and said he did not like Archer’s athletic shorts.
“Would you say that Donald Trump’s children benefit from their last name being Trump?” Goldman asked.
“I would speculate to say, yes,” Archer replied.
The payments appear to be approximately $83,000 per month that were
12 deposited into the Rosemont Seneca Bohai account from Burisma Holdings.
13 Was that what you were to be paid? Was it a million dollars per year?
14 A It was -- so, from a board perspective, it was a million dollars per year on the
15 board contracts, but the -- which was -- again, it was more than -- you know, there's
16 associated work. It wasn't just sitting there and, you know, going to board meetings.
17 But there was a lot of work that was done.
18 It was actually split. During my tenure, Tri Global was the cap-intro group. It
19 was actually split three ways. I don't know, you know, where it went after my time.
20 But that's -- initially, it was the sum total, kind of a take-home for, you know, the
21 company, excluding expenses, just gross, was 666 per year.
22 And then that obviously changed. I was, you know, kicked off or asked to resign
23 from the board when I got into my next issue.
24 Q Was Hunter Biden's agreement also that he would receive $83,000 per 25 month --
1 A Yes.
2 Q -- from Burisma?
3 A Yes. That's what I'm saying. So two -- 83 in two different -- once a month
4 was 666 annualized, divided by three.
5 [Archer Exhibit No. 7]
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13 Q The subject is "Re: Notes from the 13 hr" -- meaning "hour" -- "plane ride."
14 And I want to direct your attention to paragraph 6.
15 A Uh-huh.
16 Q My understanding of this email is that Hunter Biden has -- is the lower case
17 statement and your response is the caps, all caps statement.
18 Mr. Schwartz. Well, these emails don't come from Mr. Archer, so I don't think
19 we're going to be able to authenticate the emails or tell you who wrote what. But
20 you're certainly welcome to ask about the content of these.
21 Mr. Mandolfo. Well, do you recognize this email?
22 Sorry to interrupt. Can we know where this document comes
23 from?
24 Mr. Abourisk. It comes from the hard drive.
25 The hard drive that is in the possession of committee
1 Republicans?
2 Mr. Mandolfo. Yes.
3 So there's --
4 Mr. Goldman. Where did you get that hard drive?
5 Mr. Mandolfo. Go off the record for a second.
6 [Discussion off the record.]
7 Mr. Mandolfo. Showing you exhibit 7, paragraph 6. I'll read it out loud. It's
8 from you to Hunter Biden.
9 "Need to determine what we consider expenses to be deducted from potential
10 Burisma 'pay'" -- "pay" in quotations -- "before we determine true split number with
11 Alex."
12 Mr. Schwartz. I don't know to whom, but I object to your characterization as
13 that's "from you to Hunter Biden."
14 Mr. Archer. Yeah, I --
15 Mr. Goldman. Can we just clarify on the record, I want to clarify on the record.
16 Mr. Mandolfo. Off the record.
17 Mr. Goldman. No, no, no.
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23 Q Good afternoon, Mr. Archer.
24 A Thank you. 25 Q Before I start with my questions, I want to come back to documents you
1 were shown during the Republicans' round of questioning. You were shown various
2 documents that appear to be emails.
3 A Uh-huh.
4 Q The majority staff has represented -- the Republican staff has represented
5 that they come either from the internet or from a hard drive in their possession that they
6 have refused to date to provide to committee Democrats.
7 Mr. Archer, I want to be clear. You are unable to authenticate these emails. Is
8 that correct?
9 A I am unable to authenticate. That is correct.
10 Q You don't have a personal memory or recollection that would allow you to
11 determine whether these emails are, in fact, authentic.
12 A I don't -- I don't know if they're authentic. They're kind of in the genre of
13 what we talked about.
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8 Q And we talked about how President Kwasniewski felt that Burisma had a role
9 to play in helping as a bulwark against Russia --
10 A Uh-huh.
11 Q -- which was being aggressive toward Ukraine at the time.
12 Is it fair to say that Hunter Biden kind of shared that thought? He was quoted,
13 for example, in the press as saying that: Helping out a domestic Ukrainian gas producer
14 as a bulwark against Russia -- Russian aggression -- seems like I was on the side of angels.
15 A Right. I think that was the belief.
16 Q So is it fair to say that there was kind of an idealistic fiber to Hunter Biden's
17 interest in Burisma, in part?
18 A In part.
19 Q I want to turn to exhibit 2, which is one of the exhibits your counsel and
20 Republican -- committee Republicans agreed to as one of the exhibits in this TI. I want
21 to turn to point 8 in here.
22 "Burisma has an opportunity here to play the hero if it ignores the artificial market
23 value of their product and plays to the national interest."
24 And so I just -- is that kind of a continuation of that theme of Burisma's role in
25 Ukraine's energy independence?
1 A I don't -- I don't really understand that comment. "Opportunity here to
2 play hero if it ignores the artificial market value of their product"?
3 Q I think above it says, "There would be enormous pressure on Burisma to
4 lower prices for the national good."
5 A Oh, oh, I see. I see.
6 Mr. Schwartz. It's okay if you don't understand.
7 Mr. Archer. Yeah, I don't know what that means.
8
9 Q I'd like to point you to point 16 --
10 A Uh-huh.
11 Q -- where in this email it says, "We can actually be of real value here.
12 Developing relationships, bringing U.S. expertise to the company, supplying strategic
13 advice on politics and geopolitical risk assessment."
14 Do you see that sentence?
15 A Yep.
16 Q Does that coincide with your recollection of the value that Hunter Biden felt
17 he could add to the firm Burisma?
18 A That is -- I felt like that was -- yeah, I think collectively we probably felt that.
19 Mr. Goldman. Burisma, as well.
20 Mr. Archer. Yeah, I think that's the -- that was kind of the spirit of it.
21
22 Q I want to point you now to point 20 in this email --
23 A Uh-huh.
24 Q -- where it says, "To that end, they" -- and I believe "they" is a reference to
25 Burisma here -- "need to know in no uncertain terms that we will not and cannot
1 intervene directly with domestic policymakers, and that we need to abide by FARA and
2 any other U.S. laws in the strictest sense across the board."
3 Do you see that sentence?
4 A I do.
5 Q And do you understand FARA to be a reference to the Foreign Agents
6 Registration Act?
7 A I do.
8 Mr. Schwartz. You're asking him his current understanding.
9 Mr. Archer. Yes, current understanding, yes. At the time I don't think I was
10 familiar with FARA.
11 But, yes, I am very aware of it.
12
13 Q Is it your understanding that Hunter Biden felt that it was important that his
14 role -- in his role in Burisma he comply with U.S. laws?
15 A Did he -- did I --
16 Q Yes.
17 A I could speculate that he would think that, yes.
18 Q Based on your interactions with him.
19 A Based on interactions, and I don't think he was looking to break any laws.
20 Mr. Goldman. Well, on this, does this refresh your recollection, this email, as to
21 whether or not you heard him say that to you either in writing or verbally as you look at
22 this document?
23 Mr. Archer. Yeah. He -- yes, he was -- he was very -- he was cognizant of his
24 name and his brand and would talk about it, yeah.
25 Mr. Goldman. This doesn't talk about the name and the brand. This just talks
1 about his -- making sure that Burisma understands --
2 Mr. Archer. Yes.
3 Mr. Goldman. -- the scope of what he can and cannot do and that he cannot
4 intervene directly with domestic policymakers and need to abide by FARA and any other
5 U.S. laws in the strictest sense across the board.
6 Was that your understanding of both his approach and Burisma's understanding,
7 as well?
8 Mr. Archer. I would say -- I would say yes to the first part of the question. The
9 first part of the statement, yes, I think Burisma was constantly looking for more.
10 And it kind of speaks a little bit to that other email that we used as an exhibit
11 earlier where it's, like, we're going to use my dad's thing and take credit for it. There
12 was an element that he was always trying to avoid that but at the same time trying to
13 prove value. So it was this element of, like, signals.
14 Well, we'll return to that --
15 Mr. Schwartz. Your reference to the name and the brand, what you mean is he
16 had to be scrupulous about not violating the law because that would --
17 Mr. Archer. Right. That's why I refer to the brand.
18 Mr. Schwartz. -- reflect on the name and the brand.
19 Mr. Goldman. All right. So when you were talking about the name and the
20 brand, that because of that --
21 Mr. Archer. Because of that --
22 Mr. Goldman. -- it was your understanding that he was even more fastidious
23 about following the law --
24 Mr. Archer. Right.
25 Mr. Goldman. -- because of the name and the brand --
1 Mr. Archer. Yes.
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2 Mr. Goldman. -- as you describe it.
3 Mr. Archer. It was a -- it was a constant push-pull in that regard, you know.
4 Mr. Goldman. Because Burisma wanted him --
5 Mr. Archer. People always wanted more.
6 Mr. Goldman. Burisma wanted him to do more --
7 Mr. Archer. Right.
8 Mr. Goldman. -- with his connections.
9 Mr. Archer. Correct.
10 Mr. Goldman. And Hunter Biden understood that he could not do that, but he
11 was trying to --
12 Mr. Archer. Balance it.
13 Mr. Goldman. -- balance it and prove value to a company that expected him to do
14 things that --
15 Mr. Archer. Right.
16 Mr. Goldman. -- he was uncomfortable doing.
17 Mr. Archer. Right.
18
19 Q And so as a Biden, it was important for him to follow the law. Is that fair?
20 A That's fair.
21 Q On point 17, on this same email, the previous page, it says, "BSF" -- which I
22 believe is a reference to Boies Schiller Flexner -- "can actually have direct discussions at
23 state, energy, and NSC. They can devise a media plan and arrange for legal protections
24 and mitigate U.S. domestic negative press regarding the current leadership if need be."
25 Is it your understanding that Hunter Biden's plan, in order to make sure he
1 followed the law, was to hire a different partner at Boies Schiller to take care of these
2 discussions with U.S. Government entities?
3 A Yeah, that happened.
4 Q And so was the idea that hiring kind of that firm for that mission would help
5 ensure that actions on behalf of Burisma stayed in compliance with the law?
6 A That was the intent, yes.
7 Q And in addition to -- and just to be clear, when he talks about Boies Schiller
8 doing that, he's talking about a different partner at Boies Schiller, not him, right?
9 A Right.
10 Q And in addition to bringing in Boies Schiller to do that, is it also fair that at
11 some point a different -- I think you called it lobbying group -- the Blue Star Group was
12 brought in to handle interactions with U.S. Government officials?
13 A Correct.
14 Q And then when we talked about exhibit 10, which is the email about any
15 progress with DHS --
16 A Uh-huh.
17 Q -- I think you mentioned that there was another lobbyist who was brought in
18 to deal with this visa issue.
19 A Yes.
20 Q And I think you said that it actually was unsuccessful and Mr. --
21 A Yes, he never --
22 Q -- Zlochevsky never got his visa.
23 A Correct. It was a lot of work on that. Never happened.
24 Q So is it fair to say that Hunter Biden helped bring in a group of government
25 affairs and lobbying experts to handle the interactions with U.S. Government agencies?
1 A Uh-huh, yes, that's fair to say.
2 Q And so I think you referenced a D.C. team.
3 A Uh-huh.
4 Q Is it fair to say that there was a whole D.C. team that handled public affairs
5 on behalf of Burisma?
6 A Yes.
7 Q And that D.C. team was firms like Boies Schiller, Blue Star Group, this
8 lobbyist who was brought in to do the DHS issue. Is that fair?
9 A Fair.
10 Q That's not Joe Biden.
11 A No, that's not -- that's not the D.C. team.
12 Mr. Goldman. You mean Joe Biden is not the D.C. team.
13 Mr. Archer. Right.
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15 Q So Congress, particular Republicans in Congress, have been talking about
16 Burisma for a long time.
17 A Uh-huh.
18 Q And so forgive me, but I want to bring up 2020.
19 In 2020, going back a few years, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and
20 Governmental Affairs and the Senate Finance Committee, which were then under
21 Chairman Johnson and Chairman Grassley, Republican chairmen, conducted an extensive
22 investigation in an effort to show some connection between Hunter Biden's work on
23 behalf of Burisma and then Vice President Biden's role in carrying out official U.S. policy in
24 Ukraine.
25 As part of that investigation, there were 46 subpoenas issued, 50 hours of
1 transcribed interviews of 10 witnesses, reviews of tens of thousands of pages of
2 documents over the course of a year-long investigation.
3 A Uh-huh.
4 Q At the conclusion of that investigation, Senate minority staff issued a report
5 summarizing the findings. And I'd like to read those for you.
6 "Every witness interviewed for this investigation testified that Vice President
7 Biden did not alter United States foreign policy to benefit his son Hunter Biden, and that
8 Hunter Biden's presence on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma had no
9 effect on U.S. foreign policy. (Italics are mine for further emphasis)
10 "Every witness stated that Hunter Biden and his associates had no role in the
11 formulation of U.S. policy, that Hunter Biden's role did not influence U.S. foreign policy
12 decisions, and that Vice President Biden carried out U.S. foreign policy in the interest of
13 the United States.
14 "The investigation's evidence, set forth in this Minority report, confirms there was
15 no corruption, wrongdoing, or impropriety on the part of" the Vice President."
16 Having read that for you, I have a few questions for you based on your own
17 knowledge and experience.
18 So based on your own knowledge and experience -- your relationship with Hunter
19 Biden, your time on Burisma's board, and the entirety of your knowledge and
20 experience -- do you have any basis to disagree with the conclusion that, quote, "Vic
21 President Biden did not alter U.S. foreign policy to benefit his son Hunter Biden"?
22 A I have no basis to know if he altered. I have no basis to know if he altered
23 policy to benefit his son.
24 Q So you have no knowledge --
25 A I have no knowledge. Sorry.
1 Q -- of him --
2 A Yes, I have no knowledge.
3 Q -- altering U.S. policy to benefit his son.
4 A I have no knowledge.
5 Q You -- do you have any basis to disagree with the conclusion that "Hunter
6 Biden's presence on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma had no effect on
7 U.S. foreign policy"?
8 A Not directly. You mean like making laws? I don't -- I don't think so.
9 Mr. Goldman. Foreign policy.
10 Mr. Archer. No -- no -- no on foreign policy.
11
12 Q No basis to disagree with that conclusion.
13 A No.
14 Q Do you have any basis to disagree with the conclusion that "Hunter Biden's
15 role did not influence U.S. foreign policy decisions"?
16 A I have -- yeah, I have no basis.
17 Q Do you have any basis to disagree with the conclusion that "Vice President
18 Biden carried out U.S. foreign policy in the interest of the United States"?
19 A I have no basis to judge.
20 Q Or to disagree with that.
21 A Or disagree.
22 Q You have no knowledge -- nothing based on your knowledge or experience
23 contradicts this conclusion.
24 A No.
25 Q Does anything in your knowledge or experience contradict the conclusion
1 that "there was no corruption, wrongdoing, or impropriety on the part of Vice President
2 Biden"?
3 A I have no basis to know.
4 Q The report also found, quote, "No --"
5 Mr. Goldman. I'm sorry. You have no basis to know or is that a no?
6 Mr. Archer. I have -- I have -- I would have no idea.
7 Mr. Goldman. No basis --
8 Mr. Schwartz. Are you aware of any wrongdoing by Vice President Biden?
9 Mr. Archer. No, I'm not aware of any.
10
11 Q So based on your knowledge and experience, you have no evidence that
12 would contradict any of these conclusions I just read.
13 A No.
14 Q The report also found, quote, "No evidence that any action of the U.S.
15 Government or any U.S. official was taken to benefit Burisma or Hunter Biden."
16 Do you have any evidence or knowledge that contradicts this conclusion?
17 A No.
18 Q So based on everything you saw, heard, and observed, did you have any
19 knowledge of Joe Biden having any involvement with Burisma?
20 A No -- not direct, no.
21 Q No involvement of Joe --
22 A No.
23 Q -- Biden with Burisma.
24 A No. My only thought is that I think Burisma would have gone out of
25 business if it didn't have the brand attached to it. That's my, like, only honest opinion.
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9 Mr. Goldman. Let me ask you a followup. You've used this Jamie Dimon
10 analogy, and I think you used it during the majority's time of questioning in reference to
11 your description of the brand.
12 Mr. Archer. Uh-huh.
13 Mr. Goldman. Just so I can understand what you mean by that, let's take the
14 Trump family.
15 Mr. Archer. Sure.
16 Mr. Goldman. Would you say that the Trump family has a brand?
17 Mr. Archer. Absolutely.
18 Mr. Goldman. And would you say that Donald Trump, Jr., gets access and --
19 Mr. Schwartz. This is so out of scope. He doesn't know anything about the
20 Trump family.
21 Mr. Goldman. Well, did you play golf with Donald Trump?
22 Mr. Archer. No, I haven't played golf with him.
23 Mr. Goldman. You never did play golf with Donald Trump?
24 Mr. Archer. Oh, I did play behind him. Sorry. Scratch that. I played behind (Italics are mine for added emphasis)
25 him. And then he came up to me at the clubhouse and talked -- he didn't know who I
1 was, but he didn't like my, like, athletic shorts.
2 Mr. Goldman. It is within the scope. If you're going to bring up Jamie Dimon,
3 then we get to clarify what he means by "the brand."
4 Mr. Archer. That's fine
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12 Mr. Goldman. And just to be clear, Joe Biden had nothing to do with any of your
13 business ventures with Hunter Biden, right? He was --
14 Mr. Archer. As far as ownership
15 Mr. Goldman. Yeah, or --
16 Mr. Archer. No.
17 Mr. Goldman. -- investing or anything, to your knowledge.
18 Mr. Archer. Not to my knowledge.
19 Mr. Goldman. And in all this exhibit 1, 260 pages, you didn't see a single wire
20 transfer to Joe Biden, did you?
21 Mr. Archer. I -- no, I have not seen a wire transfer to Joe Biden.
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The surprise announcement appeared aimed at rebutting GOP criticism that the process has been politicized.
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