Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s former business partner, is being pressured to reveal information about Biden to avoid jail time. Miranda Devine reports.

Hunter Biden’s Former Best Friend Urged to Use Knowledge of Biden Family Influence-Peddling Scheme

As Hunter Biden faces a potential criminal indictment this week, his former best friend Devon Archer will make his last bid to avoid jail Tuesday when his appeal is heard in a courtroom in Lower Manhattan. Friends with knowledge of Hunter’s thinking are telling Archer to accept that the Bidens have thrown him under the bus and that a last-minute presidential pardon has been ruled out. They have urged him to save himself by using the only currency he has left — his knowledge of the Biden family influence-peddling scheme, for which he had a front-row seat for four years during Joe Biden’s vice presidency.

Archer’s Connection to Trump

The irony is that Archer has a family connection to former President Donald Trump going back three decades and is on good terms with him. Back in January, Archer coincidentally found himself sitting next to the former president at the clubhouse of his West Palm Beach golf course after Trump had played a round of golf with Kid Rock. Trump remarked on Archer’s colorful golf attire and the pair exchanged light banter before Archer reminded him that they had met before.

• Archer rode in Trump’s limousine three times and was on such familiar terms with the then-real estate developer, he called him “Donald.”
• When Archer was 17, he and his family on Long Island played a role in helping Trump hide his affair with his then-mistress, 26-year-old model-actress Marla Maples, who married Trump two years later and is the mother of their daughter, Tiffany Trump.

Archer regards himself as a victim of the fraud because he lost his life savings. Still, unless Judge Sullivan has a change of heart or is outvoted by fellow appeals Judges William J. Nardini, a Trump appointee, and Myrna Pérez, a Biden appointee, Archer, a father of two, will be heading for the big house. Hunter, who was listed as vice president for Burnham Financial Group, the company through which the fraudulent bonds were issued, never was considered a suspect in the case and has distanced himself from Archer through his legal travails.