Testimony from Hunter Biden associate provides new insight into their business dealings
House Republicans released a transcript Thursday of their interview with Hunter Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트s former business associate detailing overseas financial dealings by the president바카라 게임 웹사이트s son.
The more than five-hour closed-door interview with Devon Archer by the House Oversight Committee provides fresh insight into how President Joe Biden's youngest son used his relationship with his father, who was then vice president, to court foreign investors. Archer said Hunter Biden was using the 바카라 게임 웹사이트illusion of access바카라 게임 웹사이트 in Washington.
Republicans on the panel hope to use their work to prod impeachment proceedings against the president. However, though pressed repeatedly, Archer offered no tangible evidence that Joe Biden's role in his son바카라 게임 웹사이트s work was more than saying hello during their daily family calls.
바카라 게임 웹사이트You know, Hunter spoke to his dad every day, right?" Archer said to committee members and staff on Monday. 바카라 게임 웹사이트And so in certain circumstances, when you바카라 게임 웹사이트re in 바카라 게임 웹사이트 you know, if his dad calls him at dinner and he picks up the phone, then there바카라 게임 웹사이트s a conversation."
He added, "And the, you know, the conversation is generally about the weather and, you know, what it바카라 게임 웹사이트s like in Norway or Paris or wherever he may be.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Release of the more than 140-page transcript is the start of what is expected to be a long and tangled Republican-led probe into Hunter Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트s business dealings as he hopscotched the globe using what critics call the illusion of proximity to power to fund a lavish lifestyle for himself and his associates. Three committees are looking at Hunter Biden so far, and Republicans are pushing ahead on several lines of inquiry.
Video below: Speaker McCarthy says Biden family business investigation 바카라 게임 웹사이트rising to the level of impeachment inquiry바카라 게임 웹사이트
Archer testified that over the span of their decade-long business relationship, Hunter Biden put his father on the phone around 20 times while in the company of associates but 바카라 게임 웹사이트never once spoke about any business dealings.바카라 게임 웹사이트
At one point, Archer was asked point blank: 바카라 게임 웹사이트Are you aware of any wrongdoing by Vice President Biden?바카라 게임 웹사이트
He responded, 바카라 게임 웹사이트No, I바카라 게임 웹사이트m not aware of any.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Overall, the transcript portrays the president바카라 게임 웹사이트s son as capitalizing on his father바카라 게임 웹사이트s name, but not necessarily promising or delivering any influence that would rise to a questionable level or approach wrongdoing.
Still, Republicans have long seen Archer, who served with Hunter Biden on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, as a key witness in their search to directly connect the president to his son바카라 게임 웹사이트s various international business transactions.
Rep. James Comer, Republican chair of Oversight Committee, issued a subpoena to Archer in June, saying he 바카라 게임 웹사이트played a significant role in the Biden family바카라 게임 웹사이트s business deals abroad, including but not limited to China, Russia, and Ukraine.바카라 게임 웹사이트 He said Archer바카라 게임 웹사이트s testimony would be critical to the committee바카라 게임 웹사이트s investigation.
And while there was no evidence directly tying Hunter Biden's financial dealings to his father, Archer's testimony raised new questions about the ways in which the 53-year-old used the 바카라 게임 웹사이트Biden brand" to build his multimillion dollar international businesses.
바카라 게임 웹사이트He was getting paid a lot of money, and I think, you know, he wanted to show value," Archer testified, adding the younger Biden was not 바카라 게임 웹사이트overt바카라 게임 웹사이트 about his relationship with his father.
바카라 게임 웹사이트But I think he would 바카라 게임 웹사이트 you know, given the brand, I think he would look to, you know, to get the leverage from it,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Archer said, adding, 바카라 게임 웹사이트I think it바카라 게임 웹사이트s more defensive, you know, defensive leverage that, that the value is there in his work.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Asked what value he brought to Burisma, Archer replied, 바카라 게임 웹사이트The value that Hunter Biden brought to it was having 바카라 게임 웹사이트 you know, there was 바카라 게임 웹사이트 the theoretical was corporate governance, but obviously, given the brand, that was a large part of the value. I don바카라 게임 웹사이트t think it was the sole value, but I do think that was a key component of the value.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Rep. Andy Biggs, a Republican member of the Oversight Committee who attended the interview, portrayed the testimony about the 바카라 게임 웹사이트Biden brand바카라 게임 웹사이트 as implicating the the president directly. 바카라 게임 웹사이트I think we should do an impeachment inquiry,바카라 게임 웹사이트 the Arizona lawmaker told reporters as he exited the interview Monday.
Comer agreed, saying in a statement Thursday that Archer's testimony confirmed, "Joe Biden was 바카라 게임 웹사이트the brand바카라 게임 웹사이트 that his son sold around the world to enrich the Biden family." When pushed on it later, Archer clarified that 바카라 게임 웹사이트the brand바카라 게임 웹사이트 that brought Hunter Biden value with international clients was the broader, Washington access, which included his previous lobbying work.
바카라 게임 웹사이트D.C. was the brand,바카라 게임 웹사이트 he testified to a line of questioning by Biggs.
Nonetheless, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy recently said Republicans may need to launch an impeachment inquiry to dig deeper.
But the top Democrat on the Oversight panel, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, said the transcript proves 바카라 게임 웹사이트once again바카라 게임 웹사이트 that Republicans cannot produce any evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden.
He called the effort a "desperate effort to distract from Donald Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트s third indictment and the overwhelming evidence of his persistent efforts to undermine American democracy.바카라 게임 웹사이트