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Hunter Biden business partner Devon Archer confirms Joe was on more than TWENTY foreign business calls with his son
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Posted on 07/31/2023 11:45:48 AM PDT by janetjanet998

Hunter Biden business partner Devon Archer confirms Joe was on more than TWENTY foreign business calls with his son - but Democrat claims they were just talking about the WEATHER

Rep. Dan Goldman - lead counsel on the first Trump impeachment and the only Democrat present in the room of the testimony - told reporters that Archer 'indicated that Hunter spoke to his father every day, and approximately 20 times over the course of a 10 year relationship, Hunter may have put his father on the phone with any number of different people, and they never once spoke about any business dealings.

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To: tet68; janetjanet998

Good memory. I completely forgot about that.

Plus, that’s a good commend to janetjanet998 since it’s about her namesake.


21 posted on 07/31/2023 12:23:28 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (We are proles, they are nobility.)
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cnn.com
By Zachary Cohen and Kara Scannell, CNN
Updated 3:19 PM EDT, Mon July 31, 2023

Devon Archer says Hunter Biden sold ‘illusion’ of access

pic——Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s former business partner, arrives on Capitol Hill to give closed-door testimony to the House Oversight Committee in Washington on July 31, 2023.
J. Scott Applewhite/AP
CNN

Devon Archer told the House Oversight Committee on Monday that his former business partner, Hunter Biden, was selling the “illusion” of access to his father, according to a source familiar with the closed-door interview, the latest development in the Republican-led congressional investigations into the president’s son.

The source also reiterated that Archer provided no evidence connecting President Joe Biden to any of his son’s foreign business dealings.

Rep. Dan Goldman, a Democrat on the panel who sat through the portion of Archer’s interview where he was questioned by Republicans, also said there was a lack of evidence connecting the president to his son’s foreign dealings. Goldman said Archer told the panel that Hunter Biden did put his father on speaker phone in the presence of business partners, but that business was never discussed.

Archer’s testimony came as House Republicans appear to be shifting their focus away from trying to impeach members of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet and instead prioritizing efforts to impeach the president himself by linking him to his son’s controversial business dealings, with House investigations related to Hunter Biden now expected to take center stage.

Goldman told reporters during a break in the hearing that Archer later said that Hunter Biden putting his father on speaker phone with business associates was “part of the daily conversations” between father and son, adding, “The witness was very consistent that none of those conversations ever had to do with any business dealings or transactions.”

Goldman said that it is “kind of a preposterous premise to think that a father should not say hello to the people that a son is at dinner with and that is literally all the evidence is.”

Goldman contended that President Biden’s phone conversations were not conflicts of interest because it “was not done in furtherance of” Hunter Biden’s business interests.

“We need to move on and this investigation is a complete waste of time,” Goldman argued, if House Republicans cannot produce documentary evidence linking the president to his son’s business dealings.

pic——Devon Archer, a former business associate of Hunter Biden, arrives for closed-door testimony at the O’Neill House Office Building on July 31, 2023 in Washington, DC.
Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Speaking to CNN in recent weeks, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy signaled that Republicans have yet to verify the most salacious allegations against Joe Biden, namely that as vice president he engaged in a bribery scheme with a foreign national in order to benefit his son’s career, an allegation the White House furiously denies.

McCarthy has said that launching an impeachment inquiry would unleash the full power of the House to turn over critical information, mirroring an argument advanced by House Democrats when they impeached then-President Donald Trump in 2019.

McCarthy – who sources said has also been consulting with former House GOP Speaker Newt Gingrich on the issue – has warmed up to an idea of going after the president rather than members of his Cabinet. In recent weeks, he delivered his most explicit threat yet to Biden, saying House Republicans’ investigations into the Biden family’s business deals appear to be rising to the level of an impeachment inquiry.

Over the weekend, the Justice Department submitted a new request asking a judge to schedule a date for Archer to surrender to prison and begin serving out his one-year sentence resulting from a conviction in an unrelated fraud case, according to court filings. The move prompted immediate speculation among some Republicans that the Biden administration was attempting to prevent Archer from answering questions about Hunter Biden before the GOP-led committee, though in a court filing, the government explicitly requested that Archer’s sentence begin after he completes his congressional testimony.

In a statement, Archer’s attorney said his client does not believe the DOJ request is connected in any way to the upcoming closed-door interview, despite continuing to fight demands related to scheduling a surrender date. “We are aware of speculation that the Department of Justice’s weekend request to have Mr. Archer report to prison is an attempt by the Biden administration to intimidate him in advance of his meeting with the House Oversight Committee on Monday,” Matthew Schwartz, an attorney for Archer, said in a statement Sunday.

“To be clear, Mr. Archer does not agree with that speculation. In any case, Mr. Archer will do what he has planned to do all along, which is to show up on Monday and to honestly answer the questions that are put to him by the Congressional investigators,” Schwartz added.

While House Oversight Chairman James Comer would only go as far as to call the timing of DOJ’s letter “odd” in an interview with Fox News on Sunday, the letter prompted more bombastic reactions from other House Republicans.

This story and headline have been updated with additional details.

CNN’s Andrew Millman contributed to this report.


22 posted on 07/31/2023 12:28:39 PM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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To: janetjanet998
Dem Rep Dan Goldman just played the Beau Biden card, saying that Joe and Hunter were grieving when Joe made those calls.

Goldman said that the two would call each other frequently to check on how they were doing. But during actual business meetings? I don't think so.

-PJ

23 posted on 07/31/2023 12:31:49 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too

Their attempts to spin are laughable.


24 posted on 07/31/2023 12:32:30 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: qaz123

DITTO, WAKE ME when these bastards are held accountable WHEN IN THE HELL have you EVER SEEN the republicans take action on ANY OF THESE SCUM!! I have been at this for 50+ years of voting lesser of 2 evil ONLY TO FIND they are one and the same NO DIFFERENCE, ALL protecting their CLUB!!!


25 posted on 07/31/2023 12:32:40 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: 1Old Pro
Their attempts to spin are insulting.

-PJ

26 posted on 07/31/2023 12:36:39 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: janetjanet998

Let em spin. Joe admitted to extortion and it is on video.

Throw the worthless pant shitting and groping slim ball out!


27 posted on 07/31/2023 12:42:50 PM PDT by crz
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To: thinden

The Entire Biden Administration is Unavailable for Comment.

Where O’ Where is the electioneering Press Babbletary today?

No time listed for KJP Briefing Room today.


28 posted on 07/31/2023 12:57:57 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey. / The USA is occupied by petty tyrants. )
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To: Liz

Intimidation by another name is still intimidation.

Garland’s trusty DOJ picked the wrong 24 hour period to submit a “Surrender” judicial request for prison.

I’m delighted to see the House Republicans on the trigger, even trigger happy.

Thanks, Liz.


29 posted on 07/31/2023 1:07:24 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey. / The USA is occupied by petty tyrants. )
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To: RitaOK

y/v/w


30 posted on 07/31/2023 1:10:06 PM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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To: janetjanet998
It appears that Archer did not say that Joe discussed business on those calls, but that's what they were about. The calls were the "convincer". Hunter claims he has inside, high up political influence. To convince the client, he calls Joe. Of course they don't talk business. It's understood that business is not conducted that way. During the call, they wink and nod, and everyone in the room knows they are buying a politician.

Goldman knows that's how it's done because his explanation is why it's done that way. Plausible deniability. Only, it's not really plausible.

31 posted on 07/31/2023 1:20:57 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

Crux of the case:

Hunter without Joe made no deals and no returns. Period.

Prison works. Sedition is worse. Treason is death.

Which charges will be proven, I wonder?


32 posted on 07/31/2023 1:30:51 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey. / The USA is occupied by petty tyrants. )
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To: janetjanet998

Impeachment proceedings NOW!!!!


33 posted on 07/31/2023 1:33:49 PM PDT by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Yup. Time is money
You are in the middle of business pitch negotiations.
The brain dead son says, “Hey, let me put my dad on the phone”

Everyone not named Hunter, in this senario, is shown the door


34 posted on 07/31/2023 2:10:29 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: janetjanet998

The NBC News lead story tonight: “DC Grand Jury To Indict Trump For January 6th”


35 posted on 07/31/2023 2:38:41 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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To: janetjanet998

https://rumble.com/v33mprn-1776.html


36 posted on 07/31/2023 3:15:30 PM PDT by aces (and )
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To: janetjanet998

Did Andy Biggs really say that Biden only engaged in small talk on the calls? That’s what WSJ reported.


37 posted on 07/31/2023 5:01:54 PM PDT by bwest
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Connecticut Democrat Hines asserts “......there is zero evidence
that Joe Biden knew about what his 53 yr old son was doing.......”

In all fairness, Cong Himes could not have known that unless he was first briefed that
(a) they burned the hard copies, (b) bleached the hard disks, and, (c) assassinated the witnesses.


38 posted on 08/01/2023 3:11:06 AM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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