President Joe Biden was in contact with his son’s business partners on at least 24 occasions, a former associate of Hunter Biden will testify — contradicting the president’s repeated claims on the campaign trail that he never spoke of Hunter’s overseas dealings with him “or with anyone else.”
Devon Archer, one of Hunter Biden’s former associates and close colleagues, is expected to tell the House Oversight Committee how the president was often dialed in on speakerphone as Hunter conducted lucrative business deals. According to the New York Post on Sunday, Joe Biden attended meetings either in person or by speakerphone at least two dozen times. Such meetings often featured introductions with foreign businessmen or potential investors.
“One such meeting was in Dubai late in the evening of Friday, Dec. 4, 2015, after a board meeting of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which was paying Hunter $83,000 a month as a director,” the Post’s Miranda Devine reported. Hunter Biden’s payout was far above comparable board compensation, especially for someone with no prior experience in the industry.
“Archer, who also was a director, is expected to testify that, after dinner with the Burisma board at the Burj Al Arab Hotel, he and Hunter traveled six miles north to the Four Seasons Resort Dubai at Jumeirah Beach to have a drink with one of Hunter’s friends,” Devine added. “While they were sitting outside at the bar, Vadym Pozharskyi, a senior Burisma executive, phoned to ask where they were because Burisma’s owner, Mykola
