Just another shocking example of the Biden Department of Justice being politicized occurred this weekend as clear witness intimidation took place when the DOJ threatened to arrest Hunter Biden’s former business partner, Devon Archer, the evening before he was scheduled to give his testimony before Congress which sparked an overwhelming Republican outrage of corruption.
On Monday, Devon Archer was set to testify before Congress in a closed door meeting of the House Oversight Committee. Over the weekend, his attorney’s received a letter from federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York asking for the judge to set a date for his prison sentence on a conviction that had nothing to do with his testimony except as an attempt to intimidate and silence Archer from testifying against President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
The existence of the letter was confirmed by Fox News and Rep. James Comer (R-Ky), the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee. Comer answered questions concerning the letter which he described as clear witness intimidation with the goal of influencing his testimony before Congress which many expected to be damning and providing evidence that President Joe Biden was in fact very involved in his son’s business affairs.
In an interview with Fox New’s Maria Bartiromo, Comer said “I don’t know if this is a coincidence, Maria, or if this is another example of the weaponization of the Department of Justice. But I can tell you this – the lengths to which the Biden legal team has gone to try to intimidate our witnesses, to coordinate with the Department of Justice, and to certainly coordinate with the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee to encourage people not to cooperate with our investigation, to encourage banks not to turn over bank records, to encourage Treasury not to let us have access to those suspicious activity reports, it’s very troubling.”
“I believe that this is another violation of the law, this is obstruction of justice. But, nevertheless, we’re going to continue to move forward and try to present the American people with the facts and the truth about this president and his family,” he said.
In response to Biden’s DOJ’s attempt at witness intimidation, Republicans expressed their outrage on Twitter/X.
“The DOJ is now actively committing the crime of obstructing a congressional investigation,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fl.) posted. “If Devin Archer isn’t in the witness chair Monday, we better haul every SOB at the DOJ before congress EVERY DAY to make them pay for this.”
“Lmk – I’ll come back to Washington tomorrow to do this. Archer is in that chair or Garland is,” he exclaimed. “Yield me the time and let me ask the questions. I’ll handle it from there.”
Devon Archer’s attorney Matthew Schwartz said, “We are aware of speculation that the Department of Justice’s weekend request to have Mr. Archer report to prison is an attempt by the Biden administration to intimidate him in advance of his meeting with the House Oversight Committee. To be clear, Mr. Archer does not agree with that speculation. In any case, Mr. Archer will do what he has planned to do all along, which is to show up on Monday and to honestly answer the questions that are put to him by the Congressional investigators.”
The Biden DOJ issued a statement in response to the letter which read “To be clear, the Government does not request (and has never requested) that the defendant surrender before his Congressional testimony. Nonetheless, for the avoidance of all doubt, the Government requests that any surrender date, should the Court order one, be scheduled to occur after the defendant’s Congressional testimony is completed.”