Who Is Devon Archer and Why Is He Providing Closed-Door Testimony To Congress?

I Wrote In October 2020 That Devon Archer Could Collapse the Biden Family Influence Peddling Business

Note: I wrote this article prior to the collapse of the Hunter Biden plea agreement, and the Washington D.C. indictment of former President Trump. The coverage of those events caused me to hold off on publishing this story. But after I wrote the article Devon Archer sat for a deposition with the House Oversight Committee — which has now released the transcript — and a two-part extended interview with Tucker Carlson is now online.

The premise of the article is something of a “Who is Devon Archer” — meant to come out ahead of his revelations about his business dealings with Hunter Biden, Burisma, Chinese interests, and the involvement Joe Biden in the above. I first wrote a series of articles about Archer in October 2020, just after the 2nd Cir. Court of Appeals reinstated is 2018 conviction for securities fraud. Up until that point I didn’t know much about him, but he had been the subject of some reporting surrounding the NY Post release of information from Hunter Biden’s laptop. At the time — as most recall — information from the laptop was called likely Russian “misinformation” and the product of a Russian intelligence operation to disrupt the upcoming election. Almost three years later it is plain that the reporting on Hunter Biden’s business dealings in that time frame was accurate, including information about his business dealings with Devon Archer.

Even though some of what follows has now been widely reported on, I’m going to run it today as a prelude to covering in more detail the revelations from Archer’s testimony before the Oversight Committee, and his interview with Tucker Carlson.

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Oftentimes a story will catch fire on social media in a fashion that makes the details familiar to those following a specific narrative arc, while at the same time a large segment not following the arc is left scratching their collective heads and wondering “What is that all about anyway?”

I think Devon Archer might be one of those subjects because to have an appreciation for what has happened the past week — he submitted to an under-oath transcribed interview for the House Oversight Committee and did a very long interview on Tucker Carlson’s new show — you need to know some of the backstory about how it is he came to play a significant role for nearly a decade in the Biden Family Influence Peddling Business.

I first began writing about Devon Archer in early October 2020 while still a front-page contributor at RedState. I published 5 stories that focused on him and his business relationship with Hunter Biden and others. It began when I read an article indicating that his conviction for securities fraud had been reinstated by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in the late summer of 2020, he was likely destined for federal prison in the near future, and that might motivate him to with the Trump DOJ in investigating Hunter Biden’s foreign business activities — much of which seemed to flirt with violations of federal criminal law.

Archer had been arrested and convicted for his role in a 2014-15 fraudulent Indian Tribe Bond scam carried out by a few well-known Wall Street fraudster. The first issue that attracted my interest was the question “How did Devon Archer get himself mixed up with a bunch of guys who pulled off a $60 million fraudulent Indian Tribe Bond Scam?