WASHINGTON — First son Hunter Biden’s former business partner Devon Archer says President Biden calling into business meetings with his son’s foreign associates was both “prize enough” by demonstrating the first son’s pull with his dad — and “an abuse of soft power.”
Archer told former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in an interview posted Wednesday to X, formerly known as Twitter, that the then-vice president called into meetings with Hunter and his international partners at least 20 times.
“I don’t know if it was an orchestrated call-in or not. It certainly was powerful, though, because you’re sitting with a foreign businessperson and you hear the vice president’s voice, that’s prize enough,” Archer said. “I mean, that’s pretty impactful stuff for anyone in the world.”
“You understand DC, right?” the former Burisma Holdings board member told Carlson. “So the power to have that access and that conversation, and it’s not in a scheduled conference call and it’s a part of your family — that’s like the pinnacle of power in DC.”
“In the rear view, it’s an abuse of soft power, I’d say,” Archer added.
The former Biden family associate courted prominent businesspeople in countries where Joe Biden held sway while Barack Obama’s No. 2, including China, Russia and Ukraine.
“I can definitively say at particular dinners or meetings, he knew there were business associates,” Archer said.
Hunter’s specialty, according to Archer, was understanding the “regulatory environment” in Washington, which in practice means “selling access, at the end of the day.”
“Obviously, you know, the brand of Biden adds a lot of power when your dad’s vice president,” he said, later adding: “You’ve got to be an expert in knowing the guy. And he was the guy that was the expert in knowing the guy.”
Archer, who also provided Carlson with a letter that Joe Biden wrote in January 2011 thanking him for attending a DC lunch with visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao, sat Monday for a four-hour closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee describing his partnership with Hunter Biden.
Archer’s testimony has not yet been released and members of the panel have told The Post that he dodged many questions by saying that he could not recall specifics.
Archer joined the Burisma board alongside Hunter Biden in April 2014 and met with his father that same month, according to Obama White House visitor logs.
Burisma paid the then-second son up to $1 million per year as his father assumed control of the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy.
The firm also is at the center of an unproven $10 million bribery allegation involving Joe and Hunter Biden relayed to the FBI in 2020 by a paid informant.
Devon Archer is a former business partner of Hunter Biden’s who was found guilty of trying to defraud a Native American tribe of almost $60M in bonds and was sentenced to a year-and day-long prison sentence. He testified before Congress Monday and made several bombshell allegations. Here is what has been brought to light so far.
Archer also was involved in Hunter’s courtship of Russian billionaires Vladimir Yevtushenkov and Yelena Baturina, with whom the partners shopped for US real estate investments.
He confirmed to the Oversight Committee that Joe Biden attended an April 2015 dinner at Washington’s Café Milano with Baturina, who also transferred $3.5 million to an account associated with Archer and Hunter Biden, according to a 2020 report by Senate Republican-led committees.
Archer was sentenced last year to one year in prison for defrauding an American Indian tribe and the Justice Department on Saturday asked a federal judge to begin the process to incarcerate him.
Hunter Biden, meanwhile, is in criminal limbo after a probation-only plea deal to federal tax fraud and weapons charges fell apart last month under scrutiny by a Delaware federal judge.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said last week that congressional Republicans are on a clear course to launch an impeachment inquiry into President Biden over his links to his son’s business dealings.