President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he issued a full pardon to Devon Archer, the former business partner and longtime friend of Hunter Biden, who became a central figure in the House GOP’s impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
“He’s getting a full pardon,” Trump told New York Post columnist Miranda Devine. “He was screwed by the Bidens. They destroyed him like they tried to destroy a lot of people.”
The news comes after Trump reportedly met Archer over the weekend at the NCAA wrestling championships, an encounter arranged by Tony Bobulinski, another ex-Biden business associate turned whistleblower.
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Archer was convicted in connection with a $60 million bond fraud scheme in 2018, involving the issuance of fraudulent bonds for a Native American tribe. After a lengthy legal battle, he was sentenced in 2022 to one year and one day in prison—a sentence he has continued to fight.
Archer has long maintained that his prosecution by the Southern District of New York (SDNY) was politically motivated and orchestrated to silence him after he came forward with allegations against the Bidens.
“I want to extend my deepest thanks to President Trump,” Archer said in a statement to the Post. “I was the victim of a convoluted lawfare effort intended to destroy and silence me.”
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Archer specifically accused the Biden family of using their influence to push for his prosecution, noting that Hunter Biden was not charged despite his close involvement in the bond transactions at the center of the case.
Archer was a key witness during the House Oversight Committee’s 2023 investigation into the Biden family’s foreign business dealings. He served alongside Hunter Biden on the board of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings and co-founded the investment firm Rosemont Seneca Partners with him.
In his closed-door testimony, Archer alleged that then-Vice President Joe Biden was present during two business dinners with foreign partners — one with Russian oligarch Elena Baturina in 2014 and another with Burisma executive Vadim Pozharskyi in 2015. Archer also testified that Hunter would put his father on speakerphone during business meetings “about 20 times.”
These claims became central to the GOP’s argument that President Biden was aware of and involved in his son’s controversial business dealings — an assertion the Biden White House denied.
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The announcement follows President Joe Biden’s own controversial pardon of Hunter Biden in December 2024, just weeks before leaving office. Hunter had pleaded guilty to federal tax-evasion charges in California earlier in the year, and was also convicted in Delaware for lying on gun paperwork while addicted to drugs.
Joe Biden’s pardon drew bipartisan criticism, particularly after previously insisting he would not intervene in the legal cases involving his son.
“The Bidens talk about justice, but they don’t mean it,” Archer said Tuesday. “I am grateful that the American people are now well aware of this reality.”
Trump’s pardon of Archer comes amid renewed scrutiny of the Biden family’s foreign entanglements, bolstered by IRS whistleblower allegations and damning financial records revealed in congressional investigations. According to IRS Special Agent Joseph Ziegler, Hunter Biden was listed as “acting corporate secretary” of Rosemont Seneca Bohai — a detail that directly contradicts portions of his sworn testimony.
Bank records revealed that Hunter Biden received over $80,000 per month from Burisma while his father served as vice president. That amount was later cut in half after Joe Biden left office.
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