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Devon Archer, the ex-business partner of scandal-scarred former first son Hunter Biden, described his recent meeting with President Trump at the NCAA wrestling championships as something out of “gladiatorial Rome.”
“I was sitting in the audience, across the arena, and I saw some Secret Service rumblings, and they walked across the arena like Caesar and essentially pointed at me and said, ‘The president wants to speak to you himself,’” Archer told Fox News host Jesse Watters on Monday.
Trump, 78, previously told The Post that he promised Archer, who was convicted of securities fraud and sentenced to a year and a half in prison in 2022, a “full pardon” during the Saturday event in Philadelphia.
“I jumped over the, you know, the railing and walked over slowly and had about six minutes with the president where he gave me some very encouraging words,” Archer said. “So I’m very hopeful for that.”
Archer believes he was targeted by former President Joe Biden’s “legal apparatus” to take the heat off Hunter, claiming that he lost money in the $60 million tribal bonds fraud and that he was “taken down by a whistleblower that was blowing the whistle on Hunter.”
“It’s chronic what that legal apparatus was and I certainly was a victim,” he told Watters.
Archer, who testified to the House Oversight Committee in 2023 that Hunter connected his father to foreign associates nearly two dozen times and referred to the former president as “my guy,” said it’s been “five or six years” since he last spoke with the former first son.
“Joe Biden was – he was the brand that we were selling,” Archer told Watters of the former president’s role in his business venture with Hunter, adding that “Joe would end a meeting and say, ‘You do a favor for me, you’re my friend. You do a favor for my son, you’re a friend for life.’”
When asked about his reaction to the sweeping pardon the former president granted his son in his final weeks in office, Archer said he was “not surprised” by it.
“I wasn’t surprised at all. I think that, you know, they’re a family that’s very family oriented, but they’re very oriented around themselves – not necessarily the American family,” he said.
Archer’s meeting with Trump was arranged by another ex-Hunter associate-turned-whistleblower, Tony Bobulinski.
“He was screwed by the Bidens,” Trump said of Archer. “They destroyed him like they tried to destroy a lot of people.”
Archer, who has yet to serve his sentence for the fraud conviction, indicated that he is still awaiting formal documents officially granting him a pardon.
“God bless President Trump,” Archer said. “I’m really thankful that we have a leader like him.”
