IRS Whistleblowers and Devon Archer - House Oversight

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/house-committee-releases-devon-archer-transcript/ar-AA1eKQMD

Archer testified that Joe Biden's interactions with Hunter Biden's associates were "not related to commercial business," that Joe Biden had no involvement with Burisma, the Ukrainian oil conglomerate on whose board both Archer and Hunter Biden served; that the elder Biden never took any actions to benefit Burisma or Hunter Biden; and that Hunter Biden never asked his father to take any actions that would help his clients, according to the fully transcribed interview with the committee.

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Goldman didn't conflate anything and Archer's testimony is clear. You all keep on buying the lies.

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You are seriously citing someone from Epoch Times? Like that is 4 rungs below Fox and Newsmax.

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Anonymous wrote:Goldman didn't conflate anything and Archer's testimony is clear. You all keep on buying the lies.

Goldman lies.

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Anonymous wrote:More interference by this administration

Look squirrel!

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Devon Archer said the opposite of what Comer and Jordan claimed in RW media

Archer’s testimony was enormously damaging to President Biden, they suggested, with House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) insisting that Archer’s testimony made the bribery allegation he’d first introduced two months ago “more credible.” That allegation centered on the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, where Hunter Biden and Archer once sat on its board.

Archer “said that Hunter Biden was under immense pressure while they both served on the Burisma board to call Washington, D.C., immediately and try to get Shokin fired,” Comer told Hannity. “That’s the Ukrainian prosecutor. And not many days later, Joe Biden traveled to Ukraine” — a trip in which he called for Shokin’s ouster.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) reiterated this same claim a short while later, that after a Burisma board meeting in Dubai in early December 2015, Hunter Biden and Burisma executives “make a phone call to D.C. … I don’t know who they call, but they call D.C. And five days later, Dec. 9, 2015, Joe Biden is in Ukraine and he gives a speech starting the pressure on the prosecutor in Ukraine.”

On Thursday, the Oversight Committee released a transcript of Archer’s testimony — testimony for which Comer wasn’t present. What Archer said not only doesn’t comport with the presentations made by Comer and Jordan on television (which were obviously wrong from the outset), his testimony undermines the idea that Burisma wanted Shokin fired, that Zlochevsky paid any bribe — and, crucially, that Joe Biden was involved in any of this.

Archer explained that his work for Burisma was centered on finding external financing for the then-young company to expand.

He said that Biden’s last name helped — and that Hunter Biden sought to give the impression he was leveraging Joe Biden in his role. But he also testified that Hunter Biden knew this was deceptive.

This distills Archer’s broader point: Hunter Biden wanted to give the impression he could bend Joe Biden’s will but, in private conversation, he said he couldn’t.

It is true, Archer said, that in December 2015, Zlochevsky and Burisma were under a lot of pressure. But Shokin was not a cause of that pressure, he testified — Shokin was an asset.

Archer severely undercut Republican claims about Hunter Biden’s interactions with his father.

Consider the first words out of Comer’s mouth in that interview with Hannity: “Every day this bribery scandal becomes more credible.” In fact, Archer’s testimony pointed precisely in the opposite direction.

That’s the pattern here. Comer and Jordan and others hype claims of Joe Biden’s involvement in Hunter Biden’s work only to see those claims collapse as more information is made public.

Devon Archer’s testimony was hailed as a central breakthrough in implicating Joe Biden. Instead, it has a top ally of Hunter Biden stating under penalty of perjury that Joe Biden was not involved in Hunter Biden’s business and that Biden’s trip to Ukraine in 2015 was not centered on protecting Burisma at all.

This is outright fraud. Comer and Jordan are employed by Americans and are being paid by taxpayer's money. They are lying about what they hear in private to the public through FOX News and other RW bullhorns. This is damaging to the country's trust in its leader. I would be fired if I speak a lie about my company in public. How can these representatives hold onto their jobs even after this kind of fraudulent actions?

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Is there an actual transcript of the hearing(s)? I'm not relying on Twitter posts to tell me what was said. It's always best to read it/hear it for oneself.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there an actual transcript of the hearing(s)? I'm not relying on Twitter posts to tell me what was said. It's always best to read it/hear it for oneself.

Here you go: https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Devon-Archer-Transcript.pdf

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Fact checking the fact checkers like Kessler is great!

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This gentleman got a year in jail for the same crime as Hunter

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Anonymous wrote:This gentleman got a year in jail for the same crime as Hunter

According to his plea agreement, De Sousa was employed by the Baltimore Police Department beginning in 1998. De Sousa announced his resignation from BPD on May 15, 2018. On June 10, 1999, De Sousa submitted an Employee’s Withholding Exemption Certificate (W-4) to the City of Baltimore falsely claiming nine allowances for both federal and state tax purposes. By virtue of this claim, De Sousa substantially reduced the amount of taxes withheld from his salary each year. When he filed his federal and state income taxes for calendar years 2008 through 2012, he falsely claimed deductions to which he was not entitled, including for unreimbursed employee expenses when he had no such expenses, mortgage interest deductions and deductions for local property taxes when he did not have a mortgage or own any real property, and business losses when he did not operate any businesses. By virtue of these improper deductions, De Sousa fraudulently reduced the amount of taxes he owed to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the State of Maryland.

De Sousa admitted that for calendar years 2011 and 2012, he did not file tax returns at all and did not do so until 2014. When he did file returns for those years he falsely claimed unreimbursed employee expenses and donations to charity. De Sousa also failed to pay penalties and interest on those late-filed returns despite having been told to do so by the IRS. In addition, as of May 5, 2018, De Sousa had not filed taxes for 2013, 2014, or 2015, despite knowing that he had a legal obligation to do so. By virtue of the nine allowances he falsely claimed, De Sousa also owed additional money to the United States and the State of Maryland in each of those years, as he also knew

https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/former-baltimore-police-commissioner-darryl-de-sousa-sentenced-federal-prison-failing

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According to the tax Information, Hunter Biden received taxable income in excess of $1,500,000 annually in calendar years 2017 and 2018. Despite owing in excess of $100,000 in federal income taxes each year, he did not pay the income tax due for either year. Biden has paid his back tax with penalties and interest.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-de/pr/tax-and-firearm-charges-filed-against-robert-hunter-biden

[Anonymous]

The FBI knew about Biden Inc while he was VP, but did nothing... 6 ways to Sunday moment?

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Anonymous wrote:The FBI knew about Biden Inc while he was VP, but did nothing... 6 ways to Sunday moment?

I don't know what it is, but I cringe whenever I see a post from "justthenews"

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Anonymous wrote:The FBI knew about Biden Inc while he was VP, but did nothing... 6 ways to Sunday moment?

I don't know what it is, but I cringe whenever I see a post from "justthenews"

It’s because John Solomon lies all the time and thus has been fired by a whole bunch of actual news outlets.