President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Devon Archer, the right-hand man of Hunter Biden. Archer was convicted of defrauding a Native American tribe in a business deal. Some allege that evidence indicates Hunter Biden may have been involved, though his involvement was kept out of court.
The New York Post reported on Tuesday that the pardon came after Archer met Trump at a wrestling match on Saturday, with Trump coming to view Archer as an “anti-Biden person.”
“He was screwed by the Bidens. They destroyed him like they tried to destroy a lot of people,” he told the paper.
Peter Schweizer, the author of “Clinton Cash,” who has been at the forefront of investigating the Biden family’s influence-peddling, told The Daily Wire, “The thinking seems to be that Hunter Biden broke the law and didn’t get punished. Since Devon Archer also broke the law, he shouldn’t be punished. That is not the arithmetic of justice.”
Archer’s animosity toward Democrats arguably comes not out of shared anger at their corruption or ideology, but because he did not benefit enough from political favors, a Daily Wire review of materials on Hunter Biden’s laptop suggests.
On March 6, 2019, Archer texted Hunter, “Why did your dad’s administration appointees arrest me and try to put me in jail? Just curious… Why would they try and ruin my family and destroy my kids and no one from your family’s side step in and at least try to help me. I don’t get it. And I’m depressed. Bunch of these Asians getting in my head asking me the same so just curious what I should answer.”
Hunter replied, “we aren’t a banana republic buddy. The powerful are targets in this country the more powerful they become. But the truth prevails if you have the stamina and guts and enough love to stay the course.”
He added: “Every great family is persecuted prosecuted in the US— you are part of a great family—not a side show not deserted by them even in your darkest moments. Thats the way Bidens are different and you are a Biden. Its the price of power.”
Before President Joe Biden left office, he pardoned his son Hunter for a decade of crimes, rubbing in an apparent double standard.
In 2023, Archer testified under oath to House Republicans investigating the Biden family’s influence-peddling. He did not provide any smoking gun, saying he was “not aware” of any wrongdoing by then-president Biden and had no knowledge of him altering U.S. foreign policy to benefit his son. But he said that Hunter was in the business of trading on the Biden “brand,” and that the elder Biden was on speakerphone with his son during more than 20 calls relating to foreign business deals dating back to 2014.
Laptop emails suggest that at the time, Archer was all for using Biden’s brand to make money. For example, in September 2012, Hunter sent him an article claiming that Joe Biden was the star at the Democratic National Convention. “Share with our KZ friends- maybe spur them on,” he said, apparently referring to potential business associates in Kazakhstan who would be more tempted to pay the pair if they were seen as being hitched to a winning political horse.
“Good idea,” Archer wrote.
Then-vice president Biden later discussed expanding overseas business deals in Kazakhstan with Hunter, Archer, and an international banker during an in-person meeting at his Washington, D.C., mansion, Archer told Congress.
Others told GOP investigators that Archer was a willing participant in Hunter’s grift. Jason Galanis testified, “In 2014, I agreed with Hunter and Devon that the Burnham and Company enterprise would be significantly enhanced by forming a partnership with Harvest Fund Management, a $300 billion Chinese financial services company closely connected to the Chinese Communist Party.”
Materials promoting Burnham listed Hunter as being involved, in addition to Archer. Archer was convicted of charges related to Burnham’s schemes, and his attorney said that Hunter was also part of the deal, but Hunter was never charged. Hunter’s attorney claimed he was listed as a participant in the venture without his consent.
Archer was on the board of Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company. He was college roommates with Christopher Heinz, the stepson of John Kerry, and the trio did business together, but Heinz avoided their sketchy international business. Archer was also a Democratic fundraiser before supporting Trump’s election last year.
Galanis, the businessman and Hunter Biden associate who pled guilty to the scheme to defraud the Native American tribe, said what Hunter and Archer brought to the table were political connections. “The words ‘lean-in’ were used often by Devon and Hunter in our business dealings as a term for access to Vice President Biden’s political influence.”
