“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.”
President Donald Trump is reportedly set to issue a full pardon to Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s former business partner who is facing jail time for securities fraud over a 2015 deal he was involved in with Hunter Biden.
According to the New York Post, Trump told Archer his plans when they met at the NCAA wrestling championship in Philadelphia on Saturday night. The meeting was reportedly arranged by Tony Bobulinski, also a former Hunter Biden associate-turned whistleblower.
"He’s getting a full pardon. He was screwed by the Bidens. They destroyed him like they tried to destroy a lot of people," Trump told Miranda Devine for the New York Post. "A full pardon." He described Archer as an "anti-Biden person."
Archer said Sunday, "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."
“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,” he said. “I am grateful that the American people are now well aware of this reality.”
In 2018, Archer was convicted of fraud. As vice chairman of a financial services company, Hunter Biden had been paid $200,000. That company was involved in a $60 million trial bonds fraud. Archer said he lost millions when the firm collapsed.
Archer’s conviction was thrown out by a district judge in 2018, citing insufficient evidence that he had known about or benefited from the fraud. However, two years later, his conviction was reinstated on appeal. In 2022, he was sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to pay around $60 million in fines and restitution. His sentence was later overturned and resentencing was scheduled for later in 2025.
Archer was one of the first whistleblowers to testify at the House’s impeachment inquiry into former President Joe Biden’s involvement in his son’s dealings, and revealed that he had heard Hunter Biden put his father on speakerphone during meetings with foreign business associates over a dozen times.
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