(The Center Square) – House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., laid out a litany of new evidence in the ongoing investigation into an alleged Biden family “bribery scheme” Monday after interviewing one of the Biden family’s business associates.
Comer interviewed Devon Archer, a long-time friend of Hunter Biden who attended Yale with him and has ties to the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Hunter Biden served on the board of Burisma, which allegedly paid millions of dollars to the Biden family as part of a “bribery scheme.”
“Devon Archer’s testimony today confirms Joe Biden lied to the American people when he said he had no knowledge about his son’s business dealings and was not involved. Joe Biden was ‘the brand’ that his son sold around the world to enrich the Biden family,” Comer said.
Most notably, Comer said that Archer alleged that President Biden met with Hunter Biden’s business partners more than “20 times,” directly refuting the president’s previous claim that he did not discuss the matter with his son.
“When Joe Biden was Vice President of the United States, he joined Hunter Biden’s dinners with his foreign business associates in person or by speakerphone over 20 times,” Comer said. “When Burisma’s owner was facing pressure from the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the company for corruption, Archer testified that Burisma executives asked Hunter to ‘call D.C.’ after a Burisma board meeting in Dubai.”
Biden has repeatedly dismissed questions about his involvement in any overseas deals of this kind and Democrats have downplayed the seriousness of the investigation, including Archer’s contribution.
Comer’s comments come after IRS whistleblowers testified earlier this month that the Biden family and its associates received about $17 million distributed to about 20 shell companies from Chinese, Romanian and Ukrainian entities.
The comments came after a four-hour transcribed interview behind closed doors with Archer, who had previously canceled the interview but finally went through with it Monday. Archer, who faces prison time for conspiracy to defraud a Native American tribe, declined to comment to reporters who questioned him as he arrived on Capitol Hill Monday.
Over the weekend, controversy erupted after the Department of Justice sent a letter to a federal judge saying that Archer report to jail to begin his sentence.
Critics blasted the decision from the DOJ, saying it was politically motivated, though Archer did not echo that sentiment.
The House Oversight Committee released a timeline of events Monday based on Archer’s testimony and version of events.
From the Committee:
And this is the treasonous, disgraceful, corrupt, dishonorable Joe Biden that the traitorous Democrat Party and its supporters manipulated into the office of the President of the U.S.A.???
“Two years after leaving office, Joe Biden couldn’t resist the temptation last year to brag to an audience of foreign policy specialists about the time as vice president that he strong-armed Ukraine into firing its top prosecutor. In his own words, with video cameras rolling, he (Joe Biden)
threatened Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in March 2016 that the Obama administration would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees,
sending the former Soviet republic toward insolvency, if it didn’t immediately fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.
“I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six
hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’” Biden recalled telling Poroshenko.”
“Comer interviewed Devon Archer, a long-time friend of Hunter Biden who attended Yale with him and has ties to the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Hunter Biden served on the board of Burisma, which allegedly paid millions of dollars to the Biden family as part of a “bribery scheme.”
WE ALL have seen the evidence, and know the truth. HOW MUCH MORE must come out, before ACTION is taken!?!?!?
I just wonder what kind of action we “should” take. If the GOP impeaches the old crooked fool, then what? Someone tell me if I am wrong but it seems to me the easiest democrat to beat in 2024 that has any chance of being nominated is none other than crooked Joe. I wouldn’t want some charismatic Marxist like Gavin Greasehead Newsom to come in and sway all the 18 to 30 year old morons who think “cool” is all that matters. I just can’t imagine the majority of American voters checking the box for Biden with everything that is going on.
Hi speedle. In a most recent poll Trump and Slo Joe are tied.
Yes, so I hear. I’m not sure I believe the poll. I am hoping it is as biased and illegitimate as the newspaper that took the poll.
So don’t punish him for his MASSIVE crimes, because that may give us someone Unbeatable in the election?
ARE YOU SERIOUS?!
Yes, winning the next national election is much more important than sending Biden to jail. Trump vs. Biden is a winner for our side. Trump vs. someone else is another story. We literally cannot afford another democrat in the White House in 2024. We will be toast if that happens. So let Biden wander off in shame somewhere. It doesn’t have to be jail
SO WHen the hell do we start holding these folks to account???
After the election