Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s former business partner, provided hours of testimony to the House Oversight Committee on a narrow scope of topics that his attorneys negotiated, the transcript of his closed-door interview showed. Here are some key takeaways.
The Oversight Committee released the transcript on Thursday amid competing summaries of Archer’s answers put forward by both Republicans and Democrats.The transcript painted a more complicated picture of what Archer said about then-Vice President Joe Biden’s alleged involvement in his son’s business and why a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, wanted to hire Hunter Biden in the first place.
Archer’s attorney did indeed object to lines of questioning during the interview, including when the subject of Elena Baturina, an unsanctioned Russian oligarch who paid millions of dollars to Hunter Biden’s company around the time Joe Biden reportedly met with her and Hunter Biden at a dinner in 2014, came up in questioning.
Archer said the intention was to take credit for the trip, which he did not think Hunter Biden actually arranged, and said the ability to tout the Biden “brand” helped him and Hunter Biden earn more through their joint venture, Rosemont Seneca. “Why do you think they were asking Mr. Biden for D.C. help if they had — I'm assuming what you're saying is they might have had some kind of lobbying group on retainer, perhaps?” Rep. Andy Biggs asked Archer about Burisma, according to the transcript.
“Because he — because I think Vadym [Pozharsky] told me,” Archer said, referring to Burisma’s corporate secretary. Joe Biden’s decision to demand the removal of a Ukrainian prosecutor investigating Burisma when he came to Ukraine five days after the phone call, if he was on the call, would also receive more scrutiny if it emerged that he had personally conferred with the Ukrainian business.Archer was intentionally out of loop
“Did Hunter ever indicate to you that the Chinese anticipated that after his father was out of office, he might join their company with — one of their companies as a paid adviser?” Biggs asked.“You don't recall, but it's not new to you, is what you're saying,” Biggs clarified.
The tidbit suggests Hunter Biden did take the public image of his foreign business dealings into account when making decisions but only took steps to address a potentially problematic entanglement after it had been exposed publicly.Archer discussed an allegation provided to the FBI that Hunter Biden and his father received payments from Burisma in exchange for their work protecting its chief executive from prosecution and growing the business.
“I can only speak for myself,” Archer said earlier in the interview of the payment structures surrounding their work for Burisma.
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