Joe Biden’s defenders will find it increasingly difficult to defend the president from accusations of corruption now that Hunter Biden’s business partner Devon Archer has agreed to cooperate with the House Oversight Committee.
He received a subpoena from the committee last month.
When Hunter Biden received a spot on the Burisma board, Archer did too. He also was party to most of the major business deals that Hunter Biden was involved in.
He plans to testify in response to a congressional subpoena that Joe Biden participated in business phone calls involving Burisma. New York Post reporter Miranda Devine reports that Archer will testify that Hunter Biden would dial his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, via speakerphone when he was doing business.
In one such meeting, Hunter Biden allegedly dialed in his father on the evening of Dec. 4, 2015, after a Burisma board meeting held in Dubai. Burisma purportedly held the meeting in Dubai because its head Mykola Zlochevsky, a minister in the government of overthrown Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, was living in exile there to escape justice.
Burisma Head Pressured Hunter Biden to Call His Dad
Archer will reportedly testify that senior Burisma executive Vadym Pozharskyi phoned them to ask where they were following the meeting because Zlochevsky needed to speak with Hunter Biden urgently. Pozharskyi met Archer and Hunter Biden at the bar at the Four Seasons Hotel where they were reported to have been demanding, “Can you ring your dad?”
Hunter then allegedly reached his father. It would have been in the afternoon, Washington time. According to reports, he told his father “Nikolai and Vadym” from Burisma were with him and explained they needed his support.
“Less than a week later, Vice President Biden was in Kyiv for a meeting with Poroshenko and other top Ukrainian officials. His visit included a speech before the Ukrainian legislature, the Rada, at which the vice president inveighed against corruption,” National Review columnist Andrew McCarthy wrote.
“It was at the conclusion of this visit that Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion of U.S. aid if Poroshenko’s government failed to fire Shokin, the prosecutor. As Biden later bragged in a 2018 speech to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), he told the Ukrainians, ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Biden concluded chuckling, ‘Well, son of a b****, he got fired.’
McCarthy continued: “As I noted in the column, Biden’s remarks to the CFR were characteristically foolish and inaccurate. Shokin had ties to the Poroshenko regime, and it clearly did not want to fire him. He was not terminated within six hours, as Biden intimated; he kept his job for several months.”
Congressional investigators likely will probe why Zlochevsky was so eager to call Joe Biden. A month earlier, on Nov. 2, 2015, Pozharskyi demanded that Shokin’s investigation into Burisma get shut down.
“I am also aware of other Biden family business associates confirming that Joe would take phone calls from Hunter in the middle of business meetings and would weigh in via speakerphone,” Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski told Fox News.
FBI Informant: Zlochevsky Bought Off Joe Biden to
This testimony will come on the heels of the recently released FBI FD-1023 form that alleges that Zlochevsky paid $5 million to Hunter and another $5 million to Joe to enlist their support at getting Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin fired. Archer’s testimony could flesh out the allegations contained in the FBI complaint.
President Joe Biden participates and delivers remarks in a roundtable with business and labor leaders on the economy, Friday, November 18, 2022, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House. (Official White House Photo by Erin Scott)
The FBI informant reportedly stated that Zlochevsky looked at Hunter Biden as his legal insurance policy.
“Don’t worry Hunter will take care of all of those issues through his dad,” Zlochevksy allegedly told the FBI informant.
Archer may be able to give more context, possible corroboration, and explanations for the informant’s allegations.
John Rossomando is a defense and counterterrorism analyst and served as Senior Analyst for Counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism for eight years. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as The American Thinker, The National Interest, National Review Online, Daily Wire, Red Alert Politics, CNSNews.com, The Daily Caller, Human Events, Newsmax, The American Spectator, TownHall.com, and Crisis Magazine. He also served as senior managing editor of The Bulletin, a 100,000-circulation daily newspaper in Philadelphia, and received the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors first-place award for his reporting.
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