Devon Archer: ‘Impactful’ Joe Biden calling into meetings with Hunter’s foreign business associates was ‘abuse of soft power’
WASHINGTON — First son Hunter Biden’s former business partner Devon Archer says President Biden calling into business meetings with his son’s foreign associates was both “prize enough” by demonstrating the first son’s pull with his dad and “an abuse of soft power.”
Archer told former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in an interview posted Wednesday to X, formerly known as Twitter, that the then-vice president called into meetings with Hunter and his international partners at least 20 times.
“I don’t know if it was an orchestrated call-in or not. It certainly was powerful, though, because you’re sitting with a foreign businessperson and you hear the vice president’s voice, that’s prize enough,” Archer said. “I mean, that’s pretty impactful stuff for anyone in the world.”
“You understand DC, right?” the former Burisma Holdings board member told Carlson. “So the power to have that access and that conversation, and it’s not in a scheduled conference call and it’s a part of your family — that’s like the pinnacle of power in DC.”
“In the rear view, it’s an abuse of soft power, I’d say,” Archer added.
Archer and Hunter Biden courted prominent businesspeople in countries where Joe Biden held sway while Barack Obama’s No. 2, including China, Russia and Ukraine.
“I can definitively say at particular dinners or meetings, he knew there were business associates,” Archer said.
Hunter’s specialty, according to Archer, was understanding the “regulatory environment” in Washington, which in practice means “selling access, at the end of the day.”
“Obviously, you know, the brand of Biden adds a lot of power when your dad’s vice president,” he said, later adding: “You’ve got to be an expert in knowing the guy. And he was the guy that was the expert in knowing the guy.”
Archer, who also provided Carlson with a letter that Joe Biden wrote in January 2011 thanking him for attending a DC lunch with visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao, sat Monday for a four-hour closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee describing his partnership with Hunter Biden.
Archer’s testimony has not yet been released and members of the panel have told The Post that he dodged many questions by saying that he could not recall specifics.
Archer joined the Burisma board alongside Hunter Biden in April 2014 and met with his father that same month, according to Obama White House visitor logs.
Burisma paid the then-second son up to $1 million per year as his father assumed control of the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy.
The firm also is at the center of an unproven $10 million bribery allegation involving Joe and Hunter Biden relayed to the FBI in 2020 by a paid informant.
Devon Archer testimony: All the explosive allegations made so far
Devon Archer is a former business partner of Hunter Biden who was found guilty of trying to defraud a Native American tribe of almost $60 million in bonds and was sentenced to a year-and-a-day prison term. He testified before Congress on Monday and made several bombshell allegations. Here is what has been brought to light so far.
- Archer testified that Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings added Hunter Biden to its board because of the Biden “brand,” and paid Hunter up to $1 million a year.
- “Burisma would have gone out of business if ‘the brand’ had not been attached to it,” Archer claimed.
- Archer testified that Hunter Biden referred to his father Joe as “my guy” and connected him to foreign business associates.
- Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky put pressure on Hunter Biden to build US support for getting rid of Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, who was investigating his company, Archer testified.
- Joe Biden was put on speakerphone in business meetings at least 20 times, Archer testified.
- Hunter Biden bragged that Chinese business tycoon Che Feng loved him for his “last name” and was impressed by the group of “handsome Aryan godlike men” Biden brought with him “everywhere I go” in a 2011 email.
- Che Feng helped Hunter Biden’s firm secure favorable terms on a business partnership with Jonathan Li’s Bohai Capital and lateral launch Bohai Harvest RST, emails show.
- “I don’t believe in lottery tickets anymore, but I do believe in the super chairman,” Hunter Biden boasted in an email. Super chairman was the first son’s nickname for Feng.
- Archer testified that Joe Biden met with Li while he served as vice president and wrote a college recommendation letter for his daughter.
- Archer claimed that Feng was so generous to Hunter Biden due to his family connections.
Archer also was involved in Hunter’s courtship of Russian billionaires Vladimir Yevtushenkov and Yelena Baturina, with whom the partners shopped for US real estate investments.
He confirmed to the Oversight Committee that Joe Biden attended an April 2015 dinner at Washington’s Café Milano with Baturina, who also transferred $3.5 million to an account associated with Archer and Hunter Biden, according to a 2020 report by Senate Republican-led committees.
Archer was sentenced last year to one year in prison for defrauding an American Indian tribe and the Justice Department on Saturday asked a federal judge to begin the process to incarcerate him.
Hunter Biden, meanwhile, is in criminal limbo after a probation-only plea deal to federal tax fraud and weapons charges fell apart last month under scrutiny by a Delaware federal judge.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said last week that congressional Republicans are on a clear course to launch an impeachment inquiry into President Biden over his links to his son’s business dealings.
