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President Biden didn’t talk business with his son’s business associates, but rather discussed “the weather or whatever,” Manhattan and Brooklyn Rep. Daniel Goldman claimed Monday after former Hunter Biden partner Devon Archer admitted that the then-vice president was frequently patched in to meetings involving the now-first son.
Goldman, a member of the House Oversight Committee who was the lead attorney for Democrats’ bid to impeach then-President Donald Trump in 2019, emerged from Archer’s four-hour deposition on Capitol Hill and confirmed that the former Burisma Holdings board member had recalled “approximately 20 occasions” on which Hunter, now 53, would ask his father to say “hello” during business meetings.
“The witness was unequivocal and stated very clearly that they never discussed any business on [those] phone conversations,” the lawmaker insisted.
“There were niceties. And there was a hello. And [they] talked about the weather or whatever it was,” Goldman stressed, “but it was never any business.”
Goldman then went a step further and claimed that the number of calls involving the Biden family’s overseas colleagues was linked to Beau Biden’s death from brain cancer at age 46 in 2015.
“It’s really important to remember that during this time period that we’re talking about here, Beau Biden, Hunter Biden’s brother, and President Biden’s son, became very ill with cancer and died,” Goldman said. “The witness described in vivid detail about how devastating that was to both Hunter Biden and to Joe Biden, and how their communications picked up dramatically in the aftermath.”
Critics were left gobsmacked by Goldman’s excuses for the first family.
“Who dials their father into 20 business phone calls?” asked the official Twitter account of Oversight Committee Republicans.
“All that was discussed over 20 times is how much Joe Biden loves his son,” joked Spectator contributing editor Stephen L. Miller.
“In the eight years that my father was President of the United States I never once sat in the room with business associates and called him on the phone,” tweeted Michael Reagan, son of the 40th president. “If I had, the Democrats would have skewered me.”
National Review writer and attorney Jeff Blehar went on an extended rant in response to Goldman’s comments, writing: “I just assume we all weren’t born into this life ten minutes ago, and understand the signal every adult man in the room knows is being sent when the principal says ‘Oh hey, here’s my dad the Vice-President.’ Including the Vice-President. But hey, let’s all play stupid suddenly.”
“‘Hello there, my father who is also the Vice President of these United States!’” Blehar went on, imagining a phone conversation between the two. “‘How do you do! Nice weather we’re having here, boy those Phillies huh, okay now as I was saying about the tranched deposits in three separate shell corporations …’”
“Also, what’s the competing narrative here, ‘eldercare abuse?’ Is it that Hunter took advantage of his doddering father and shuffled him quickly into speakerphone calls to impress people, and all the time Joe was like ‘huh, what nice Slavic friends my reformed son Hunter now has!’” Blehar continued, before adding. “BIDEN 2024: ‘Too senile to be corrupt enough to truly know what’s going on around him.’”
Whether Joe Biden explicitly talked business or not, Archer alleged that Hunter Biden used his father to sell the “brand,” according to Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.)
“Devon Archer’s testimony today confirms Joe Biden lied to the American people when he said he had no knowledge about his son’s business dealings and was not involved. Joe Biden was ‘the brand’ that his son sold around the world to enrich the Biden family,” Comer said in a statement.
President Biden had claimed for years to have never spoken to Hunter about his overseas business pursuits.
However, the White House subtly changed tack recently, insisting the elder Biden “was never in business with his son.”
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