Biden says “I never talked about business” with Hunter as he finally addresses Devon Archer’s testimony
- “I never talked about business,” Biden told Fox News’ Peter Doocy. “I knew you’d have a stupid question”
- “Why is that a worthless question?” asked the reporter. “Because it’s not true,” the president said
- Devon Archer testified last week that Joe was present over speaker or in person about 20 times while Hunter met with associates
An exasperated President Joe Biden insisted he “never” discussed business with his son Hunter when he finally addressed Devon Archer’s damning testimony before Congress.
Biden snapped at Fox News’ Peter Doocy for asking a “crappy question” at the end of an event about wind farms in New Mexico.
Doocy confronted the president and said, “There is now testimony in which one of your son’s former business associates claims that you talked a lot on speakerphone about business.”
Biden replied, “I never talked about business … I knew you’d have a lousy question.”
“Why is that a worthless question?” Doocy asked.
“Because it’s not true,” Biden clapped back before walking away.
“There is now testimony from one of your son’s former business associates claiming that you spent a lot of time talking about business on speakerphone,” Fox News’ Peter Doocy said.
Hunter’s former business partner Archer testified to the House Oversight Committee last week that the then vice president had been present over 10 years about 20 times over speaker or in person while Hunter met with associates.
Archer claimed not to have ever heard Joe Biden talk about business, but said Hunter would use his father as a flex worker — and hearing the vice president’s voice on speed dial was enough to sell the “brand” to foreign executives.
“I can say for sure that at certain dinners or meetings he knew there were business associates,” Archer told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson in an interview after his testimony last week.
“I don’t know if it was an organized call or not. But it was certainly powerful because, you know, when you’re sitting with a foreign businessman and you hear the vice president’s voice, that’s price enough,” Archer continued.
“Sometimes the call came in and the speaker went through,” said Archer, describing the conversations in detail. “You understand DC, don’t you? So the ability to have that access in that conversation — it’s not in a scheduled conference call and that’s part of your family. That’s like the pinnacle of power in DC’
He had told the Conversations Committee, “If his father calls him during dinner and he answers, there’s a conversation. And it, you know, the conversation is generally about the weather and, you know, what it’s like in Norway or Paris or wherever he is.’
Through the investment and policy consulting firm that Archer and Hunter Biden jointly ran — Rosemont Seneca — Hunter led on “government regulatory issues,” Archer said.
“Did Hunter have regulatory expertise?” Carlson asked.
Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Massimov and Kenes Rakishev pictured at Cafe Milano
“I think he led a team that did,” Archer said, pointing out that most of the work Hunter did was knowing who to call.
On Wednesday, the Oversight Committee released a bank record memo detailing the $3.5 million billionaire Yelena Baturina transferred to Rosemont Seneca, which was transferred through other accounts that Archer and Hunter had direct access to.
Baturina, the wife of a former Moscow mayor, attended a dinner with then-Vice President Biden, Hunter and Archer soon after in 2014 and was not among the Russian oligarchs slammed with sanctions over the war in Ukraine.
The records also show a wire transfer for the exact amount Hunter paid for a fancy sports car — $142,300 — that came in a day before he wired it to purchase the vehicle. That thread came from Kazakh oil oligarch Kenes Rakishev – who also had dinner with the vice president around the same time.