The House Oversight Committee announced the discovery of the two wire transfers this week. At the time they were sent in late summer 2019, Hunter Biden was sober, remarried, and living in California with his new wife, not at his father’s Wilmington, Delaware, home.
Although Hunter Biden told the New Yorker in 2019 that the meeting was nothing more than a handshake, Archer told the House Oversight Committee in July that Joe Biden actually met with Li for coffee in China. When Archer faced legal troubles in an unrelated business matter in 2016, he stepped back from the Chinese venture, and BHR shares that he jointly owned with Hunter Biden were divided up and transferred both to his own company and to one of Hunter Biden’s many companies, Skaneateles, according to emails from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop.
Mesires also claimed that Hunter Biden had no equity in BHR until after his father left the vice presidency, although emails suggest this was also untrue. Other companies he partially owned appeared to hold his 10% of BHR shares long before his father left office.