We are entering the ‘important final stage’ of the Biden family probe and IMPEACHMENT is on the table for AG Garland and possibly Biden: GOP eyes millions racked up by the Biden family as ex-Hunter associate expected to testify on Joe’s involvement

Republicans are reaching a critical stage in their investigation into Biden family businesses as Hunter Biden’s ex-business partner is expected to expose the president’s direct ties to his son’s businesses — opening the door to possible impeachment.

R-Ohio House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan said Sunday that the GOP’s investigation into the Biden family’s finances is entering its “important final stage” as they investigate more than $17 million in foreign money received by the Biden family. They are also looking into the Justice Department’s alleged “special treatment” for Hunter Biden in the ongoing criminal investigation into the president’s son for gun and tax crimes.

Jordan’s statements come as a new bombshell report revealed that the president attended at least 24 conversations with Hunter’s business associates, including Devon Archer, despite the White House’s insistence that he was never involved in his son’s dealings. Archer is expected to tell the House Oversight Committee chaired by James Comer that Joe has spoken with Hunter’s business associates at least 24 times, including those at the Ukrainian oil company Burisma.

“What did the Bidens do to get the money?” Jordan asked. “I mean, 20 different shell companies, nine different Bidens getting paid. What was the service, the product, the value they add? The only logical explanation here is that it was access to then Vice President Biden,” Jordan told Sunday Morning Futures host Maria Bartiromo.

Jordan said it is a “full conference question” whether articles of impeachment will pass against Attorney General Merrick Garland.

“But the speaker has been very clear, speaker McCarthy has said that if we have to go to an impeachment inquiry, in fact we will,” he said, noting that “the evidence continues to pile up.”

“It certainly looks like we’re moving in that direction at a rapid pace, but that’s a question for the full conference.”

Republicans point to discrepancies between Garland’s and U.S. Attorney Weiss’s public statements on the Hunter Biden case and who had “full authority” to indict the president’s son.

As for impeachment articles for Joe Biden himself, Jordan said, “It may not be so much about the attorney general, although I think there are important things, it could be more about the president himself,” but more information needs to be gathered.

He said last week’s release of an internal FBI form FD-1023 by Senator Chuck Grassley alleging that Joe and Hunter accepted $10 million from Burisma’s CEO in exchange for firing a Ukrainian prosecutor while Biden was vice president is a key piece of evidence.

“That is why President Comer is continuing his investigation. He’s trying to get Hunter Biden’s business partner, Devon Archer, for a statement, to put all that in writing. He’s been trying to pull that off,” Jordan continued.

“There have been a number of times that it has been rescheduled. Hopefully that will happen soon and then we’ll see where we go.’

Comer confirmed his committee will speak with Archer “soon,” though a date has yet to be set.

A committee aide told DailyMail.com they are actively working with Archer’s attorney to schedule a transcribed interview.

Last week, two IRS whistleblowers, Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, testified under oath that the uncovered WhatsApp messages between Hunter and a Chinese energy official appear to be evidence of a “direct contradiction to what President Biden said about his non-involvement in Hunter’s overseas business dealings.”

The president’s son was staying at the guest house at Biden’s Delaware home when he wrote a letter via WhatsApp to Communist Party official Henry Zhao on July 30, 2017, threatening him to follow his “orders.”

‘I’m sitting here with my father and we would like to know why the agreement that was made has not been kept.’ Hunter wrote in 2017 according to testimony from IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley released by the GOP.

Hunter then said, according to the testimony, “Tell the warden I want to fix this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight.”

According to the 2017 conversation, Zang also said he wants to convey “his best regards to you, Jim and VP.”

“It’s so disturbing,” House Ways and Means chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., said Monday on Fox & Friends in response to the report on the 24 calls.

“What we found with the information that has come out from whistleblowers – for example, the WhatsApp message that apparently Hunter Biden sat next to his father waiting for a call from a Chinese foreign business partner and said, “we are here, looking forward to your call.”

“It shows that in fact President Biden not only knew about his son’s business dealings, but then backtracked by saying he is not involved in his son’s business dealings.”

‘This is like the [IRS] whistleblowers flagged,” Smith continued.

Senator Ted Cruz called the revelations “magnificent” in a tweet Monday.

Archer and another business partner, Tony Bobulinski, have both said that Joe Biden offered short greetings and platitudes rather than concrete agreements with Hunter’s business partners.

Joe Biden, vice president from 2009 to 2017, spoke with Hunter’s partners at Ukrainian energy company Burisma in December 2015.

Hunter and Archer were in Dubai, Archer will reportedly testify, and Hunter told other Burisma board members that they could speak to his father on the phone.

Hunter put his father in touch with Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Burisma, and Vadym Pozharskyi, a senior manager of Burisma, and as they gathered on the phone, Hunter told Joe that the Ukrainian businessmen “need our support.”

Archer is also expected to say that Joe Biden only spoke vaguely during the brief phone call to greet the two businessmen.

Comer and the committee are interested in the disclosures because at the time, Joe Biden served as President Barack Obama’s “point person” on Ukraine and U.S. efforts to deter corruption.

Burisma was under investigation for corruption, and in an email to Hunter and Archer in November 2015 — a month before the call — Pozharskyi demanded that they use their leverage to “close” the criminal investigation against Burisma, The New York Post reported.

Archer will also tell the committee, the newspaper said, about a dinner at a restaurant in the French capital, where Hunter took out his phone and called his father, trying to impress potential investors.

Archer will say that Hunter would introduce his father over speakerphone in about one in four conversations.

At other times, he spoke to his father without telling him he was on speakerphone – leaving open the possibility that Joe was unaware that his son was trading his access.

Joe Biden is known to speak regularly with his son and his grandchildren: Hunter Biden told CBS News in 2021 that they speak every night.

A close associate of Archer told the New York Post that he testifies about his time with Hunter because he believes it is his “civic duty.”

Archer was sentenced to one year and one day in prison in February 2022 for defrauding a Native American tribal entity and several investment advisory clients out of tens of millions of dollars, in connection with the issuance of $60 million in bonds.

Archer’s associate said he thought the fraud case was a way to silence him.

He has “nothing to hide, no revenge to take, nor to protect anyone but his family and he feels enthralled by the absurd fake” [fraud] business to remain silent,” the source told The Post.

“On a forum where he has immunity, he can at least speak the truth.”

Last week, IRS whistleblowers Shapley and Ziegler both said Hunter Biden had received preferential treatment from the Justice Department.

Hunter agreed to a plea of ​​lying on his tax returns. He also struck a deal over allegations of lying on a gun license application: He said he wasn’t taking drugs, and has since admitted to being addicted.