JUST IN - Hunter Biden business partner Devon Archer confirms Joe was on more than twenty calls with his son — Daily Mail
2:10 PM · Jul 31, 2023 ·65.7K Views
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Hunter Biden business partner Devon Archer confirms Joe was on more than TWENTY calls with his son: GOP says associate revealed NEW evidence in bombshell testimony to Congress on president’s involvement in foreign deals
Archer is expected to give his account of the Biden family business dealings for four to five hours behind closed doors
Testimony comes after a back-and-forth with the DOJ claiming it was not trying to have Archer jailed before his deposition over an unrelated fraud conviction
By MORGAN PHILLIPS, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and KELLY LACO, EXECUTIVE EDITOR OF POLITICS FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and HARRIET ALEXANDER
PUBLISHED: 10:47 EDT, 31 July 2023 | UPDATED: 14:23 EDT, 31 July 2023
Hunter's Biden's former friend and business partner Devon Archer claimed to the House Oversight Committee on Monday that the president and first son discussed foreign business deals over 20 times.
Rep. Dan Goldman - lead counsel on the first Trump impeachment and the only Democrat present in the room of the testimony - told reporters that Archer '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 claimed Archer had said Joe and Hunter's business partners only exchanged 'niceties' like talking about 'the weather, "what's going on?"'
But Republicans had a different retelling of Archer's account.
Oversight member Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told DailyMail.com in an interview Archer testified that 'the Bidens were in the actual business of influence peddling.'
'It's extremely damning,' she said, claiming that the 20 phone conversations Archer referred to were directly about business deals.
'We have Devon Archer coming out and telling the truth that Hunter Biden and Joe Biden spoke over 20 times about his business deals, not about the weather, not about what was for lunch about his business deals,' she said.
Judiciary Chairman and Oversight member Jim Jordan, who was in the room for the deposition, told reporters that Archer had provided the committee with new information and called the meeting 'very productive.'
Greene, who communicates regularly with Speaker Kevin McCarthy, said she believed Archer's testimony could be what 'moves the needle' on the potential Biden impeachment inquiry.
She said that at last week's weekly meeting of the Republican conference, McCarthy told his members: 'when it's time to vote for this, I want you to be with me on this one.'
'We have to have 218 Republicans to vote for it,' Greene said. 'And there's been some that just aren't there yet, but in my opinion, the information that's coming out today could really push many of them to get to "yes."'
Donning a devil-may-care grin, Archer sauntered in 15 minutes late to his 10 a.m. deposition and declined to comment on reporters' shouted questions.
Archer is expected to give his account of the Biden family business dealings for four to five hours behind closed doors - and to unmask Joe as the 'big guy' referred to in emails and calls between Hunter and foreign associates.
He appeared relaxed despite his impending prison sentence.
Archer arrived to speak to investigators as unearthed a laundry list of foreign influence violations Hunter could be charged with after his plea deal dramatically fell apart last week.
Archer's testimony also comes after a back-and-forth with the Department of Justice claiming it was not trying to have Archer jailed before his deposition over an unrelated fraud conviction.
The DOJ had sent a letter on July 29th to a New York judge calling for Archer's sentencing to be expedited.
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Republicans claim the move by DOJ was an attempt to 'intimidate' Archer, who they view as being central to providing information that is critical to their ongoing investigation into whether Joe Biden was involved in his son's foreign business deals.
DOJ seemingly walked back their request in a fresh Sunday filing, telling District Judge Abrams that they do not wish to see Archer imprisoned before he testifies before Congress on Monday on the Biden's business schemes.
'To be clear, the Government does not request (and has never requested) that the defendant [Archer] surrender before his Congressional testimony,' the letter read.
For the avoidance of all doubt, the Government requests that any surrender date, should the Court order one, be scheduled to occur after the defendant's Congressional testimony is completed.'
Oversight Chairman James Comer said Sunday that the DOJ's July 29 letter to Abrams was an attempt to 'intimidate' the witness he says is key to getting to the bottom of the president's son's shady overseas business deals.
DailyMail.com reported exclusively this week that Archer is 'in hiding' after receiving 'threats' leading up to his bombshell testimony.
Archer, 48, was subpoenaed on June 12 by the House Oversight Committee, which is investigating Hunter's businesses and whether he and other members of the Biden family improperly traded on their connections.
It is unclear the motivation behind Archer's decision to testify on Monday. He previously cancelled on the committee at least three times in recent weeks.
Chairman Comer told Fox News' Larry Kudlow that Archer is appearing before his committee now because after he was subpoenaed, he 'doesn't have a whole lot of options.'
He said Republicans planned to hold him in contempt if he did not comply with the subpoena, which doesn't 'look good on your resume.'
'At the end of the day, I think that Archer wants to do the right thing,' he said. 'I think he wants to set the record straight and he is going to have an opportunity to do that.'
But Archer is facing legal troubles of his own and is expected to go to prison shortly.
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He was sentenced to one year and a day in prison in February 2022 for defrauding a Native American tribal entity and various investment advisory clients of tens of millions of dollars, in connection with the issuance of $60 million in bonds.
He is on the hook with his co-conspirators for $43.4 million in restitution over the fraud.
Archer's lawyer confirmed his upcoming meeting with Congress, adding that Archer had previously testified to a federal grand jury about his dealings with the Biden family – likely referring to Delaware prosecutor David Weiss' criminal investigation into the First Son.
'Devon Archer believes strongly in the rule of law and the democratic system, and is prepared to answer the Committee's questions just as he has already answered similar questions from a federal grand jury, the Department of Justice, and several other government agencies in their investigations concerning the Biden family,' said attorney Matthew Schwartz of Boies Schiller Flexner.
'There have been many leaks and much speculation about Mr. Archer's potential statement to the Oversight Committee, but next week, Mr. Archer will get to speak for himself.'
The White House has maintained the president was never 'in business' with his son, but the GOP have ramped up their investigation with testimonies from whistleblowers and a slew of other evidence.
Archer, 48, and Hunter both graduated from Yale and were friends for decades. Hunter has reportedly described Devon as his 'best friend in business.'
Together they formed Rosemont Seneca Partners back in 2009, along with Christopher Heinz, the son-in-law of former Sen. John Kerry, kicking off a period of international business deals and jet-setting.
Archer and Hunter Biden each landed lucrative seats on the board of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, despite Hunter not having particular expertise in the field. The firm brought in a reported $11 million through the arrangement, based on information gleaned from Hunter's infamous laptop.
They were photographed golfing with then-Vice President Biden back in 2014.
Hunter's ex-business partner is planning to testify to the committee that Hunter used this speakerphone call tactic at least two dozen times, according to a New York Post report published Monday.
One alleged example is after a Burisma board meeting in Dubai on December 4, 2015.
Devon allegedly claims Hunter was with him, Burisma owner Nikolai Zlochevsky, and executive Vadym Pozharskyi at the bar of the Four Seasons Resort Dubai at Jumeirah Beach.
Burisma executive Vadym Pozharskyi allegedly asked Hunter: 'Can you ring your dad?'
According to the Post report, Hunter called Joe, introduced 'Nikolai and Vadym', and told his father they 'need our support'.
Three days later Joe flew to address the Ukrainian parliament on the 'poison of cronyism, corruption, and kleptocracy.'
At the time, Zlochevsky was under criminal investigation in Ukraine, and had his assets seized. But in March 2016, after Joe Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid to Ukraine, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin was fired.
Separately, in a 2017 email to Hunter, his uncle Jim and other business partners regarding a deal with Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC, business partner James Gilliar made a reference to the 'big guy' getting a 10 percent stake in the lucrative deal.
Another former associate of the first son, US Navy veteran Tony Bobulinski, publicly claimed in October 2020 that 'big guy' was a reference to President Biden.
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JUST IN - First US nuclear reactor in seven years goes online
12:46 PM · Jul 31, 2023·25.1K Views
First US nuclear reactor in seven years goes online
AFPJuly 31, 2023 12:45 pm
A new reactor at a US nuclear power plant entered into operation Monday, a first in seven years in the country where conventional reactors may give way to smaller-scale nuclear facilities.
''The Vogtle Unit 3 near Waynesboro, in the southeastern state of Georgia, has begun serving some 500,000 homes and businesses, operator Georgia Power said in a statement.''
“The new unit represents a long-term investment in the state’s clean energy future and will provide reliable, emissions-free energy to customers for decades to come,” the company said.
The project comes online seven years after it was supposed to start producing power.
The costs for Unit 3, and a fourth reactor anticipated to enter operation in late 2023 or early 2024, have topped $30 billion, according to an estimate by the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (MEAP).
That is more than double the budget of $14 billion announced at the start of the project.
Cost overruns pushed original investor Westinghouse, a subsidiary of Japan’s Toshiba, to file for bankruptcy in 2017, and it withdrew from the project.
Once all four units are in operation, Vogtle will become the largest generator of clean energy in the nation, according to Georgia Power.
Vogtle Units 3 and 4 were the first new reactor projects approved by US authorities since 1979 and an incident at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island, the most serious nuclear accident in US history.
The most recent prior commission of a nuclear reactor was Unit 2 at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in Tennessee, in 2016.
Construction for that reactor had begun in 1973. Work was suspended for more than two decades before the project was revived.
Low-carbon nuclear power has been hailed as a climate-friendly energy source as the world struggles to combat global warming.
Environmentalists, however, worry about safety and warn that disposing radioactive waste carries huge risks.
''Since 1990 only three reactors have entered into operation in the United States: the two units at Watts Bar, in 1996 and 2016, and Vogtle Unit 3 on Monday.''
No other conventional reactor project is underway.
Construction of two reactors at the Virgil Summer Nuclear Station in South Carolina was abandoned in 2017, despite $9 billion already invested in the projects.
''Manufacturers have now reoriented themselves towards smaller, new-generation facilities known as small modular reactors, or SMRs.''
The newer designs — none of which have yet to come into operation in the United States — are expected to be less expensive, take less time to build and are considered safer than conventional power plants.