Joe Biden and Hunter Biden’s interactions with business partners were well known even before the testimony of business insider Devon Archer, The New York Times reported Monday.
Archer testified before the House Oversight Committee that Joe Biden spoke to his son’s foreign business associates more than 20 times in person or on speakerphone, said oversight committee chairman James Comer. said in a statement. Archer described how Hunter Biden added value to Burisma’s “brand” and put pressure on the Ukrainian government by being “called DC” to prompt the dismissal of prosecutor Viktor Shokin. . (Related: Joe Biden Dined with Hunter Biden and Russian Oligarch in Washington, Devon Archer Testifies)
The New York Times reported in paragraph 20 of its article on Archer’s testimony that “it has long been known that the elderly Biden occasionally interacted with his son’s business partners.”
Joe Biden (2019): “I have never spoken to my son about doing business abroad.”
Democrats 2023: Yes, Joe was on the phone with some of Hunter’s shady foreign pals, but they just talked about the weather. https://t.co/OVEp4aQYMD
— Oversight Board (@GOPoversight) August 1, 2023
Joe Biden repeatedly said during his presidential campaign that he did not discuss foreign business dealings with Hunter Biden.
“I have never spoken to my son or brother or anyone else about anything to do with their business. It’s time,” he said at a campaign event in South Carolina in August 2019. Told. According to Politico. “And what I’m trying to do is what we did when we were in power. There’s an absolute wall between private and private. [business interests] And so is the government,” he added.
“I never talked to my son about doing business abroad,” he said in Iowa the following month. USA Today report. “Here’s what I know: Mr. Trump should be investigated.”
Democrats, including New York State Rep. Dan Goldman, confirmed phone calls with Mr. Biden, claiming that Mr. Joe Biden was just chatting and talking about the weather. Goldman denied that Joe Biden had ever spoken about Hunter’s business dealings, and Goldman cited Joe Biden’s late son Beau to defend the president.
Joe Biden also said Hunter Biden’s laptop was a “Russian factory” during a debate with then-President Trump in October 2020. Biden’s claim was based on a debunked letter from 51 former intelligence officials who called the laptop a “Russian intelligence operation.” The New York Post’s coverage of the laptop was censored by Twitter.
Former CIA Director Michael Morrell told the House Judiciary Committee that the letter was orchestrated by Biden’s Secretary of State Tony Brinken, who said Morrell wanted Joe Biden to win the 2020 presidential election. testified that he was.
The Daily Caller News Foundation, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CBS News reviewed the contents of the laptop following the New York Post’s report.
After IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley exposed a threatening letter Hunter Biden and his roommate’s father allegedly sent to Chinese business people, the White House announced that Joe Biden’s son and announced that he was not working.
