“That’s categorically false,” Archer told Tucker Carlson in a lengthy interview published Friday. “He was aware of Hunter’s business. He met with Hunter’s business partners.”Democrats attempted to claim Archer’s testimony this week to the House Oversight Committee was consistent with Joe Biden’s previous statements about the foreign contracts Hunter Biden landed while his father was in office. Until recently, Joe Biden had long claimed he never discussed business with his son.
But Archer said the mere presence of Joe Biden at those meetings, and the perceived ability to get him on the phone anytime, was the core of Hunter Biden’s foreign business deals — and that Joe Biden knowingly participated. Archer exited the business partnership he had with Hunter Biden in 2016 after facing an indictment on an unrelated fraud case. He also resigned from the board of Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company, where he’d worked since 2014.
Archer’s attorney revealed during the transcribed interview with the House Oversight Committee that Archer received immunity to testify before a grand jury in Delaware.Although Hunter Biden’s extensive foreign business relationships were laid out in the documents filed in his tax case, he so far faces no charges for failing to register as a foreign lobbyist, one of several areas in which investigators were interested during the course of the five-year investigation of Hunter Biden.