The House Oversight Committee just released the full transcript from Devon Archer’s testimony that he gave on Monday.
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Archer was Hunter Biden’s business partner and had been questioned on Joe Biden’s connections to the foreign business dealings scandal.
Archer revealed that Biden spoke on the speakerphone 20 times to business associates, as we have reported.
He also said that Burisma would have gone under with the “brand” — the Biden name/involvement.
“My only thought is that I think Burisma would have gone out of business if it didn’t have the brand attached to it. That’s my, like, only honest opinion,” Archer said in his testimony. “… The capabilities to navigate D.C. that they were able to, you know, basically be in the news cycle. And I think that preserved them from a, you know, from a longevity standpoint.”
He continued saying that having the “Biden brand” attached to the company made people “intimidated to mess with them” from a legal standpoint. He also testified that the “Biden brand” referred mostly to Joe Biden because he “brought the most value to the brand.”
“Well, I think there was — there are particular, you know, objectives that Burisma was trying to accomplish. And a lot of it’s about opening doors, you know, globally in D.C. And I think that, you know, that was the, you know — and then obviously having those doors opened, you know, sent the right signals, you know, for Burisma to, you know, carry on its business and be successful,” Archer testified.
Archer also specified that Hunter Biden would not “overtly” throw out things his father could do for Burisma; rather, he would use “the brand” as a way to get leverage with the company.
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