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   The full transcript of the House Oversight Committee's interview with   
   Devon Archer – Hunter Biden's former best friend and business partner –   
   shows how a key Democrat on that committee, New York Rep. Daniel Goldman,   
   managed to spin out a positive headline from an interview that was   
   otherwise damaging to President Biden.   
      
   After Archer's closed-door committee interview on Tuesday, Democrats   
   emphasized to media outlets that Archer had described what Hunter Biden   
   was peddling as "the illusion of access" to his father.   
      
   But the transcript shows that the phrase "illusion of access" was first   
   introduced by Goldman. The transcript also shows that Archer first agreed,   
   but then equivocated, on whether the "illusion of access" description was   
   fair.   
      
   DEVON ARCHER TORPEDOES BIDEN CAMP'S DEFENSE OF CONTROVERSIAL DINNER WITH   
   BURISMA EXEC   
      
   "It's not about selling access to his father. It's about selling the   
   illusion of access to his father. Is that fair?" Goldman questioned.   
      
   "Is that fair? I mean, yeah, that is – I think that's – that's almost   
   fair," Archer responded.   
      
   "Almost fair. Why almost fair?" Goldman probed.   
      
   "Because there – there is – there are touch points and contact points that   
   I can't deny that happened, but nothing of material was discussed. But I   
   can't go on record saying that there was – there was communications,"   
   Archer replied.   
      
   Archer went on to describe that phone calls between Hunter Biden and his   
   father were a sort of "signal" to his business partners about potential   
   influence and access provided by Joe Biden.   
      
   "People send signals and those signals are basically used as currency. And   
   that's kind of how a lot of D.C. operators and foreign tycoons and   
   businessmen work," Archer described in questioning.   
      
   Archer said he never witnessed details about business dealings being   
   discussed with Joe Biden on the phone, but that the calls alone were   
   "signal enough to be powerful."   
      
   "I think that the calls were – that's what it was. They were calls to talk   
   about the weather, and that was signal enough to be powerful," Archer   
   said.   
      
   5 KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM EXPLOSIVE WITNESS ACCOUNT OF HUNTER BIDEN'S FOREIGN   
   BUSINESS DEALINGS, JOE'S ROLE   
      
   Archer told investigators that Hunter Biden used his "very powerful name"   
   to "add value" in pitching and securing foreign business ventures.   
      
   Archer said Hunter Biden "would not be so overt," or "overtly" say "we’re   
   going to use my dad for this," but instead, Archer said that he would use   
   the name to "get leverage."   
      
   "Defensive leverage that the value is there in his work," Archer said.   
      
   "The value that Hunter Biden brought to it was having — you know, there   
   was — the theoretical was corporate governance, but obviously, given the   
   brand, that was a large part of the value," he continued. "I don’t think   
   it was the sole value, but I do think that was a key component of the   
   value."   
      
   HUNTER BIDEN LAID OUT 'PRICE OF POWER' IN TEXTS WITH DEVON ARCHER: 'YOU   
   ARE A BIDEN'   
      
   Archer told investigators that Hunter put his father, then-Vice President   
   Joe Biden, on speakerphone while meeting with business partners at least   
   20 times. Archer described how Joe Biden was put on the phone to sell "the   
   brand."   
      
   "You aren’t talking about Dr. Jill or anybody else. You’re talking about   
   Joe Biden. Is that fair to say?" Archer was asked.   
      
   Archer replied: "Yeah, that’s fair to say… Obviously, that brought the   
   most value to the brand… It was Hunter Biden and him," Archer said. "We   
   would discuss having, you know, an understanding of D.C. and that was a   
   differentiating component of us being able to raise capital."   
      
   The transcripts also show that Archer witnessed Hunter Biden putting his   
   father on speakerphone during meetings with business associates.   
      
   Archer also contradicted a key claim from Biden's orbit about a dinner the   
   now-president attended with a Burisma executive.   
      
   Goldman's office referred back to the transcript when asked by Fox News   
   Digital about its contents.   
      
   Fox News Digital's Brooke Singman contributed to this report.   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/devon-archer-transcript-shows-how-   
   democrat-rep-goldman-spun-illusion-of-access-narrative   
      
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