Posted on 08/04/2023 7:42:08 AM PDT by SJackson
With the transcript of Devon Archer’s testimony released, New York Rep. Dan Goldman stands exposed as shamelessly deceptive in his claims that Archer’s account mainly cleared President Joe Biden of any wrongdoing in connection to son Hunter’s lucrative influence-peddling.
Among the revelations:
Between meetings and phone calls, then-Veep Joe chatted repeatedly — 20 times, to Archer’s knowledge — with Hunter and his overseas clients, usually for periods longer than the cup-of-coffee or just-a-handshake that Joe’s defenders have claimed.
Notably, Archer debunked the pro-Biden lie that Joe barely stopped by an April 2015 dinner with a pack of Hunter clients.
Goldman cited a 2021 Washington Post piece claiming that Joe spoke only with a priest there.
“No,” Archer replied: It was actually “a regular dinner” and “that’s not correct reporting.”
With his decades of foreign-policy experience, Joe surely knew that all these foreigners hailed from countries where a politician’s son selling dad’s influence is typical.
So he knew his presence signaled that paying Hunter could pay off in his own actions — yet he kept doing it.
More: The only reason to do it time and again was to help Hunter collect.
Why else keep breaking bread with a pack of corruptocrats far below the level a vice president would?
And why else keep the meetings off Joe’s official schedule?
Archer is also clear on what Hunter brought to the partnership.
His name, and his proven ability to get Joe, telling Tucker Carlson that Hunter was purely about “selling access”: “You’ve got to be an expert in knowing the guy. And he was the guy that was the expert in knowing the guy.”
And: It’s “categorically false” that Joe had no role in or knowledge of his son’s business.
“He was aware of Hunter’s business. He met with Hunter’s business partners.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
There is a fairly recent Joe Biden speech out there somewhere where he was talking about how poor he was as a young Senator. He then said: “...but that was before we learned we could make money in politics.”
Just can’t remember where I saw it. Like the Ukraine bribe, Biden openly admitted his corruption as braggadocio. He was a poor public servant before he learned how to take bribes.
Did Obama purposely pick the two biggest crooks in DC? What was his cut?
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