Democrat congressman lied about Devon Archer testimony!

WASHINGTON (PNN) - August 5, 2023 - A congressman made a misleading statement about the testimony of former Hunter Biden associate Devon Archer, a newly released transcript shows.

Rep. Dan Goldman (N.Y.) said in a briefing with reporters that Archer told members of Congress, including Goldman, in a closed-door session that Hunter Biden sold an "illusion of access" to President Joe Biden to business partners.

That briefing happened before the transcript of the testimony was released. The transcript shows that Goldman introduced the "illusion of access" term and that Archer didn't fully agree.

"Is it fair to say that Hunter Biden was selling the illusion of access to his father?" Goldman asked.

"Yes," Archer replied.

"So when you talk about selling the brand it's not about selling access to his father. It's about selling the illusion of access to his father. Is that fair?" Goldman inquired.

"That's almost fair," Archer said.

"Why almost fair?" Goldman wondered.

"Because there are touch points and contact points that I can't deny happened," Archer said. "There were communications."

Archer had testified earlier in the session that Hunter Biden placed Joe Biden on speaker phone 10 to 20 times while with business associates. On at least one occasion, Jonathan Li, CEO of BHR Partners, was with Hunter Biden. Joe Biden had met Li in China previously.

Joe Biden lied when he told reporters on the campaign trial in 2020, “I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.”

Joe Biden also attended multiple dinners where Hunter Biden, Archer, and other business associates were in attendance, including a 2014 dinner at Cafe Milano in Washington, Archer testified. Yelena Baturina, CEO of Russia's Inteco, was at one dinner. Hunter Biden later received a large payment from Baturina.

Goldman did not deny that Joe Biden advocated for the removal of then-Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who was investigating Burisma, but said that was not improper.

"As it pertains to Archer's testimony about Hunter, there is not a shred of evidence of a single conflict of interest of President Biden ever doing anything in connection or in relation to Hunter Biden's business ventures, other than advocating for the removal of a prosecutor general who was advantageous to Burisma," Goldman said. "The only evidence we have right now of any official action by President Biden in connection to Hunter Biden's business interests is bad for Hunter Biden's business interests."

Both Hunter Biden and Archer sat on Burisma's board, making approximately $1 million a year each.

Shokin was removed after Joe Biden, the vice president at the time, traveled to Ukraine in 2015 and threatened to withhold a loan guarantee if Ukrainian leaders did not force Mr. Shokin out.

"If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,” Joe Biden said at a public event about the interaction. “Well, son of a [expletive]. He got fired."

Shokin has said that the threat was cited when he was ousted. He said in a sworn statement that then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko asked him to resign because of “pressure from the (Fascist Police States of Amerika) presidential (regime), in particular from Joe Biden.”

Joe Biden and his allies have said that Shokin was corrupt, and that the ouster was not related to Hunter Biden's business.