Trump promises to pardon Hunter Biden's former business partner Devon Archer



President Donald Trump reportedly confirmed over the weekend that he intends to give a full pardon to Hunter Biden's former business partner Devon Archer, citing the price the former Abercrombie & Fitch model turned fraudster has supposedly paid for exposing the Biden family's apparent corruption.

"He's getting a full pardon," Trump told the New York Post's Miranda Devine on Sunday. "He was screwed by the Bidens. They destroyed him like they tried to destroy a lot of people."

Souring on the Bidens

Together, Archer and Hunter Biden co-founded the investment firm Rosemont Seneca with John Kerry's stepson Christopher Heinz; co-established a China-backed investment fund called BHR partners; and joined the board of the scandal-plagued and now-defunct Ukrainian gas firm Burisma Holdings.

Over the decade he worked with Hunter Biden, Archer learned a great deal about the convicted felon's shady business dealings and character. Text messages found on Hunter Biden's infamous laptop indicate that Archer may have also soured on the Biden family when its patriarch refused to help him with his fraud charges.

Archer was convicted in 2018 for the fraudulent issuance and sale of over $60 million of tribal bonds.

'It's the price of being the most powerful group of people in the world.'

While Archer and two other Burnham Financial Group executives were found guilty of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and securities fraud, Hunter Biden — who was the vice chairman of Burnham and raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars — was not similarly charged in the fraud scheme.

Archer's conviction was overturned but then later upheld by the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Archer's case last year.

After the Biden Department of Justice appealed the overturning of his conviction in 2018, Archer allegedly wrote to Hunter Biden, asking, "Why did your dad's administration appointees arrest me and try to put me in jail? Just curious. Some of our partners asking out here."

"Why would they try to 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," Archer allegedly wrote. "And I'm depressed. Bunch of these [Asian partners] getting in my head asking me the same so just curious what I should answer."

Hunter Biden reportedly responded by text, "Every president's family is held to a higher standard [and] a target. It's the price of being the most powerful group of people in the world. It's why our democracy remains viable. It's unfair at times but in the end the system of justice usually works and like you we are redeemed and the truth prevails. The unfairness to us allows for the greater good."

"Every great family is persecuted prosecuted in the U.S. — you are part of a great family — not a side show not deserted by them even in your darkest moments," Hunter Biden allegedly texted. "That's the way Bidens are different and you are a Biden. It's the price of power."

Evidently, Hunter Biden's textual pep talk didn't cut it.

Informing on the Bidens

Archer proved more than willing to furnish congressional investigators and the media with insights into Joe Biden's involvement in his son's overseas dealings — dealings the former president repeatedly claimed he had nothing to do with — as well as into why Joe Biden may have leveraged $1 billion in U.S. aid to get a top Ukrainian prosecutor who had been investigating corruption fired.

'I was the victim of a convoluted lawfare effort intended to destroy and silence me.'

Whereas Biden claimed in 2019, "I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings," Archer told the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability in 2023 that the former Democratic president spoke to his son and to his son's business partners on numerous occasions and was "the brand" Hunter Biden trafficked in.

Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) underscored that Archer's testimony was "critical to the Committee's investigation."

Clean slate

"A full pardon," Trump reiterated to Devine on Sunday, characterizing Archer as an "anti-Biden person."

Archer, who reportedly met Trump in Philadelphia on Saturday at the NCAA wrestling championships, told the Post, "I want to extend my deepest thanks to President Trump."

"I am grateful to the president for recognizing that I was the victim of a convoluted lawfare effort intended to destroy and silence me," continued Archer. "Like so many people, my life was devastated by the Biden family's selfish disregard for the truth and for the peace of mind and happiness of others. The Bidens talk about justice, but they don't mean it."

Archer was originally sentenced to serve a year and a day in prison and ordered to forfeit $15.7 million and pay $43.4 million in restitution. Archer's sentence was, however, overturned on a technicality, and he was set for a resentencing later this year.

Now it appears that the former Burisma Holdings board member whom Hunter Biden characterized as family will get off scot-free.

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Trump explains the 'funny thing' about Biden's pardons



Former President Joe Biden tried his apparent best to set a number of records, including the number of days spent on vacation as well as the number of illegal aliens overseen stealing into the homeland. He certainly set a record when issuing pardons and commutations. In fact, no president appears to have come even remotely close except for Andrew Johnson, who padded his numbers with pardons for ex-Confederates during the Reconstruction era.

In his interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, which aired Wednesday night, President Donald Trump raised the matter of his predecessor's pardons, noting that despite issuing them like they were going out of style, Biden failed to pardon the most obvious candidate — himself.

'It all had to do with him.'

Among those who received pardons or commutations from Biden were:

  • Anthony Fauci, who has his fingerprints all over decades of dangerous gain-of-function experiments as well as the COVID-19 origins cover-up;
  • retired Gen. Mark Milley, who while serving as the most senior uniformed adviser to Trump, telephoned his communist Chinese counterpart to reassure him that he would provide him with actionable warnings should his commander in chief decide to attack;
  • members of the Jan. 6 committee, including Liz Cheney, who were accused by congressional investigators of likely violating numerous federal laws, including 18 U.S.C. 1622, which prohibits any person from suborning perjury;
  • select U.S. Capitol and D.C. Metro police officers who advanced shaky narratives before the committee;
  • multitudes of convicts caught pushing deadly drugs;
  • murderous child rapists, cop killers, and at least one mass murderer; and
  • a disgraced former comptroller who stole $53.7 million from her struggling Illinois city.

"This guy went around giving everybody pardons," said Trump. "And you know the funny thing, maybe the sad thing is he didn't give himself a pardon."

"If you look at it, it all had to do with him," added Trump, apparently alluding to the Biden family's shady foreign dealings.

Before leaving office, Biden issued unconditional blanket pardons to his felonious son Hunter Biden, his sister-in-law Sara Biden, his sister Valerie Biden Owens, his brother-in-law John Owens, and his brothers Francis Biden and James Biden.

In each case, he gave his kin a pass on any crimes committed between Jan. 1, 2014, and the time of the pardon's issuance — a 10-year window of clemency that overlapped with the Biden family's scandalous dealings with the Ukrainian company Burisma, where Hunter was appointed director in 2014, as well as with the communist state-linked organization CEFC China Energy and other questionable foreign entities.

'I went through four years of hell by this scum that we had to deal with.'

According to the nearly 300-page impeachment report released by the House Oversight, Ways and Means, and Judiciary Committees in August, "The Biden family and their business associates received tens of millions of dollars from foreign interests by leading those interests to believe that such payments would provide them access to and influence with President Biden."

The report noted that bank records indicated that when accounting also for the Biden family's business associates and their companies, the international "influence peddling schemes totaled over $27 million from foreign sources" just from 2014 to 2023.

The Biden women and men alike apparently also worked to cover up the conspiracy.

The report stated:

Foreign money was transmitted to the Biden family through complicated financial transactions. The Biden family laundered funds through intermediate entities and broke up large transactions into numerous smaller transactions. Substantial efforts were also made to hide President Biden’s involvement in his family’s business activities.

While he saw his apparent conspirators off with pardons, Biden failed to give himself one such that he could still be held accountable — unless, of course, his compromised mental state again affords him a lighter touch.

Despite repeatedly claiming he never spoke to his son, brothers, or others about their overseas business dealings, the House report portrayed Biden as the nucleus of this outrageous scheme, stating the 82-year-old Democrat "knowingly participated in this conspiracy" and that it was "inconceivable that President Biden did not understand that he was taking part in an effort to enrich his family by abusing his office of public trust."

While there are many bones to pick, Biden still has yet to face a comeuppance for leveraging a $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee to Ukraine to secure a result favorable to Burisma.

In the Wednesday interview, Trump appeared to suggest Biden should face accountability.

"I went through four years of hell by this scum that we had to deal with," said Trump. "I went through four years of hell. I spent millions of dollars of legal fees, and I won."

"But I did it the hard way," continued Trump. "It's really hard to say they shouldn't have to go through it also."

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Hunter Biden pardoned: Shop owner REVEALS what he discovered on his laptop



On April 12, 2019, John Paul Mac Isaac was running his laptop repair shop in Delaware when Hunter Biden — who was just pardoned by his father, Joe Biden — changed the course of his life.

“It was about two weeks before his father announced his candidacy, so to me, he was just an intoxicated guy, and at first, because I saw the Beau Biden Foundation sticker, I thought he was just trying to get memories off of his deceased brother’s laptop, because that’s often the case,” Isaac told Alex Stein of “Prime Time with Alex Stein” in an interview.

“That’s often the case. Customers will come in with these devices, and they’ll just want to get the memories off. Unfortunately, during the data recovery the next day, I had to verify the data, and during that verification process I realized that this was not Beau Biden’s laptop. This was Hunter’s, and it was gross,” he explained.


Hunter told Isaac to bill him electronically, when Isaac explained that if he didn’t pick it up after 90 days, it’s “forfeit.”

“At that point I just wanted him to pick it up, because I saw a lot of embarrassing material. But, again, his dad hadn’t announced his candidacy yet, so I figured just get this disgraced son of a politician out of my shop,” he said.

“It was about three months later when it became my property and Burisma and Hunter Biden and corruption was in the news cycle. I took a deep dive in the laptop, and it took me probably a couple weeks before I figured out that there was major threats to our national security on that laptop and it needed to get to the FBI,” he continued.

Isaac was concerned not only about the contents on the laptop but also the “collusion between our Big Tech or mainstream and social media to block the story.”

“The fact that they went to extreme lengths to repress the story from the time the FBI took possession of that laptop on December 9 of 2019. They had 10 months before the New York Post broke that story,” he said. “That’s a lot of effort to put into hiding something.”

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The REAL reason Joe Biden pardoned Hunter



Joe Biden isn’t leaving the White House quietly.

With less than two months left in his term, the president issued a full and unconditional ten-year pardon for his son Hunter Biden.

This includes any of the crimes he may have committed between January 1, 2014, and December 1, 2024.

“This covers Hunter’s felony convictions for gun charges, tax offenses, and even overlaps with his time with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. But we were told by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre repeatedly that this wouldn’t happen,” Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight” comments.

“Let’s be clear: This isn’t a pardon. This is a decade's worth of salvation and forgiveness,” Eric Eggers, vice president of the Government Accountability Institute, responds. “This is also an affront to the integrity of our democracy, and it’s just the latest admission that Joe Biden and the Biden administration have been lying to the American people for the last four years.”


“It started in the fall of 2020, when the FBI worked in conjunction with Big Tech to help suppress the accountability of the Hunter Biden business dealings in the first place, which allowed Joe Biden to even become president, so he could later pardon Hunter Biden,” he continues.

“What are the big crimes that are actually being covered up here?” Blaze Media editor in chief Matthew Peterson asks Eggers, who cites the Foreign Agent Registration Act.

“Joe Biden begins this period of grace for his son, January 2014; the month before that, Hunter Biden rode on Air Force 2, with his then-vice President father, Joe Biden. Together, they travel to China,” Eggers explains, noting that at the time, Hunter had zero international business experience.

“He gets this $1.5 billion private equity deal, a joint partnership with essentially the communist government of China, never been done before,” Eggers continues. “This began this international ravaging of the dark corners of shady businesses that wanted to curry favor with American political elites. It’s called ‘elite capture.’”

“These are business deals that would have involved Joe Biden. So by creating this decade's worth of grace for Hunter,” he concludes, “this is the closest Joe Biden has come to creating grace and space for himself.”

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Biden’s Blanket Pardon For Hunter’s Role In The Family Business Is No Act Of Fatherly Love

President Joe Biden pardoned his son for crimes from 2014 to 2024, helping insulate the Biden family business.

Hunter Biden’s Pardon Is All About Protecting Joe Biden, Not His Son

By pardoning his son for more than a decade of potential crimes, the president is protecting himself above all.

Hill Dems hammer Biden over Hunter pardon, citing 'two-tier' justice system



After President Joe Biden announced a sweeping pardon for his son Hunter Biden, several lawmakers from his own party came out against him.

Despite repeatedly asserting that he would not pardon his son, Biden is now allowing Hunter to evade legal repercussions for crimes committed from January 1, 2014, to December 1, 2024. This pardon was issued amid Hunter's most recent felony conviction on gun charges as well as his scandalous background surrounding felony tax offenses and his role in the Ukrainian gas company Burisma.

'This was an improper use of power, it erodes trust in our government, and it emboldens others to bend justice to suit their interests.'

Biden previously insisted that he would not pardon Hunter, reaffirming that "no one is above the law." Over the weekend, Biden announced the decision to pardon Hunter, claiming that he was being "selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted."

"The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election," Biden said in a statement released Sunday.

"No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son — and that is wrong," Biden continued.

However, lawmakers from Biden's own party were not convinced.

"President Biden’s pardon of his son confirms a common belief I hear in Southwest Washington: that well-connected people are often gifted special treatment by a two-tier justice system," Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, who just narrowly won re-election in Washington state, said in a Monday post on X. "The President made the wrong decision. No family should be above the law."

"I respect President Biden, but I think he got this one wrong," Democratic Rep. Greg Stanton said in a Monday post on X. "This wasn’t a politically-motivated prosecution. Hunter committed felonies, and was convicted by a jury of his peers."

Biden also faced backlash from Democrats on the Senate side.

"President Biden’s decision put personal interest ahead of duty and further erodes Americans’ faith that the justice system is fair and equal for all," Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado said in a Monday post on X.

"President Biden’s decision to pardon his son was wrong," Democratic Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan said in a Monday post on X. "A president's family and allies shouldn't get special treatment. This was an improper use of power, it erodes trust in our government, and it emboldens others to bend justice to suit their interests."

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Biden Claims Hunter Was ‘Unfairly Prosecuted’ While His DOJ Persecutes Political Opponents

Joe Biden claims his son Hunter was 'unfairly prosecuted' while ignoring the political persecution his own DOJ has unleashed on his opponents.

'No one is above the law': Biden's 'unconditional' pardon of his son covering Burisma years stuns liberals and critics alike



President Joe Biden and other elements of his administration have managed to evade the legal consequences meted out to Americans of other political stripes. Biden apparently figures his son should be afforded the same luxury.

After repeatedly vowing he would not do so, and just months after declaring without qualification, "No one is above the law," Biden issued a "full and unconditional" pardon for son Hunter Biden.

The pardon gives Hunter Biden a pass on any crimes committed between Jan. 1, 2014, and Dec. 1, 2024. This 10-year window of clemency not only lets him off the hook for his felony conviction on gun charges and for his felony tax offenses, but also conveniently overlaps with the Bidens' scandalous dealings with the Ukrainian company Burisma, where Hunter was appointed director in 2014, as well as with the communist state-linked organization CEFC China Energy and other questionable foreign entities.

The brazenness and breadth of the pardon has stunned critics and fellow travelers alike, prompting even CNN and Politico to admit its "extraordinary" and "unprecedented" nature.

'The most lawless administration in history.'

"I am satisfied that I'm not going to do anything," Biden told reporters in June, following Hunter's conviction on federal gun charges. "I said I'd abide by the jury decision. I will do that. And I will not pardon him."

On Sunday — a day after President-elect Donald Trump indicated he would nominate Kash Patel as FBI director Christopher Wray's replacement — Biden signed the pardon for Hunter Biden, suggesting that his son was "treated differently" than other criminals.

"The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election," wrote Biden. "No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter's cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son — and that is wrong. There has been an effort to break Hunter — who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they've tried to break me — and there's no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough."

According to Biden, his son — who had an affair with his dead brother's wife; initially refused to acknowledge then attempted to avoid paying child support for the daughter he sired with a former stripper; used illicit substances that would land other Americans in prison; enriched himself abroad using his family brand; and allegedly engaged in an international influence-peddling scheme with his father — is a victim of a "miscarriage of justice."

The pardon clears Hunter Biden for all offenses against the U.S. that he has committed or may have committed, "including but not limited to all offenses charged or prosecuted (including any that have resulted in convictions)," in the 10-year period.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) responded to the pardon on X, writing, "Democrats said there was nothing to our impeachment inquiry. If that's the case, why did Joe Biden just issue Hunter Biden a pardon for the very things we were inquiring about?"

"The most lawless administration in history," wrote Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.).

Trump wrote, "Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!"

Liz Wheeler, BlazeTV host of "The Liz Wheeler Show," tweeted, "I'm surprised anyone believed Joe Biden when he claimed he wouldn’t pardon Hunter. Obviously that was a lie. Joe was always gonna pardon Hunter. Not because Joe is a 'good father.' Because Hunter was the bagman who collected corrupt money for Joe. I thought everyone knew this."

Politico admitted the pardon is "an extraordinary political act with extraordinary legal breadth" that is "deliberately vague."

'This is a bad precedent.'

Former U.S. pardon attorney Margaret Love told the publication, "I have never seen language like this in a pardon document that purports to pardon offenses that have not apparently even been charged, with the exception of the Nixon pardon," referring to President Gerald Ford's blanket pardon of President Richard Nixon in 1974.

Love added, "Even the broadest Trump pardons were specific as to what was being pardoned."

Samuel Morrison, an attorney who similarly worked in the Office of the Pardon Attorney for over a decade, told Politico, "It is an extraordinarily broad grant."

Morrison suggested that Biden has effectively cleared Trump to go the distance with his own pardons, noting, "It gives him some political cover. I think some January 6 pardons are probably coming — at least some, maybe all."

CNN indicated that the pardon "deepened an entanglement of politics and the rule of law that has tarnished faith in American justice" and "may be seen as a stain on his legacy and his credibility."

The New York Times indicated that Hunter Biden would most likely not have qualified for a pardon recommendation under the criteria used by the Department of Justice's Office of the Pardon Attorney.

Some Democrats and fellow travelers have similarly acknowledged that the play to insulate Hunter Biden from consequence was a grave error.

"I am disappointed that he put his family ahead of the country," wrote Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D). "This is a bad precedent that could be abused by later Presidents and will sadly tarnish his reputation. When you become President, your role is Pater familias of the nation. Hunter brought the legal trouble he faced on himself, and one can sympathize with his struggles while also acknowledging that no one is above the law, not a President and not a President's son."

"A selfish and senile old man," tweeted FiveThirtyEight pollster Nate Silver. "Why do you think Trump(ism) gains a following? Well, actually, that's complicated. But part of it is because elites of all political stripes are absolutely out for themselves and complete moral hypocrites. And Democrats stake a claim to moral superiority when Trump does not."

Silver added, "Don't vote for any Democrat in 2028 who doesn't repudiate the pardon within 48 hours."

By pardoning his felonious son, Biden may have done more than just nuke his remaining credibility. He may have transformed into a courtroom foe.

Former U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman noted that the "pardon is extremely broad and covers activities while Joe was vice president. This means that Hunter cannot plead the Fifth if asked about his business dealings with Ukraine and China, including his Dad's involvement, because, with his pardon, he has no risk of criminal jeopardy."

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