All weekend long, members of the House Republican caucus hyped a Monday deposition by convicted felon Devon Archer that they claimed would prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that President Joe Biden committed criminal acts with his son, Hunter.
But after Archer testified, it quickly became clear that the GOP had been humiliated again and found no smoking gun in their ongoing harassment of the president, which is little more than an attempt to deflect from Donald Trump’s multiple criminal indictments.
According to HuffPost, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) was present for Archer’s deposition and he proved nothing other than just how desperate Republicans are to manufacture dirt on the incumbent U.S. head of state.
“I think it is safe to say that after yet another two hours, there still is no connection of any of Hunter Biden’s business dealings with President Biden,” Goldman said.
The president has repeatedly denied ever discussing business with his son, who for years sat on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma after Archer recommended him for the position to the company’s founder.
While Archer apparently maintained that he never witnessed the elder Biden talking shop with his son, Goldman said, Archer did describe several instances of the two Bidens talking on speakerphone in the presence of their other business partners.
“The witness 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,” Goldman added. “As he described it, it was all casual conversation, niceties, the weather, what’s going on. It wasn’t a single conversation about any of the business dealing Hunter had.”
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), who serves as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and was in the room when Archer gave his deposition, would only say that the testimony had been “productive.”
Archer also told lawmakers from both parties Monday that he had no evidence of any financial payments to either of the Bidens. Hunter Biden, Archer added, was only selling “the illusion of access to his father,” according to a source familiar with matter.
