by Sarah Bedford at Washington Examiner
Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s former business partner, provided hours of testimony to the House Oversight Committee on a narrow scope of topics that his attorneys negotiated, the transcript of his closed-door interview showed.
The Oversight Committee released the transcript on Thursday amid competing summaries of Archer’s answers put forward by both Republicans and Democrats.
THE MIXED MESSAGES OF BIDENOMICS
The transcript painted a more complicated picture of what Archer said about then-Vice President Joe Biden’s alleged involvement in his son’s business and why a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, wanted to hire Hunter Biden in the first place.
Here are some key takeaways.
Biden attorneys intervened
Before the interview began in earnest, Archer’s attorney, Matthew Schwartz, informed lawmakers and congressional staff that he’d received a warning from “Mr. Biden’s attorney” over the weekend preceding the Monday interview.
Which Biden family member’s attorney sent the message was unclear, but Schwartz said the Biden attorney warned about “Mazars-type issues in the questioning” that Archer would face.
He appeared to be referring to a Supreme Court case involving then-President Donald Trump in which Trump’s team challenged the legislative purpose for congressional document requests he faced and successfully established that the president should receive special protections from congressional oversight.
Schwartz said he would have to interject if questions strayed from the narrow agreement Archer’s legal team had struck with House Oversight Committee lawyers, and the fact that he cited “Mr. Biden’s lawyer” as the catalyst for that warning was notable.
Archer’s attorney did indeed object to lines of questioning during the interview,…
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