By Reagan Reese, Daily Caller News Foundation | March 25, 2025
President Donald Trump pardoned Hunter Biden’s former business partner Devon Archer on Tuesday. Trump signed the pardon on Tuesday, saying that Archer was a victim of a “crime” and treated “very unfairly.” Archer had been facing a year and a day in prison for his role in defrauding a Native American tribe and other clients by fraudulently issuing and selling over $60 million worth of bonds.
“Devon Archer was a former business partner of the Biden family. He was prosecuted relating to a fraud investigation, but notably, the tone and tenor of that prosecution changed dramatically after he began to cooperate with congressional investigators and serve as a witness against Hunter Biden and the Biden family. We believe that was an injustice, and therefore we’re asking you to pardon him,” White House Staff Secretary Will Scharf told the president, showing him the executive order.
“And many people have asked me to do this. I think he was treated very unfairly. And I looked at the records, studied the records, and he was a victim of a crime, as far as I’m concerned. So we’re going to undo that,” Trump said.
“Congratulations, Devon,” Trump added.
Archer previously tried to appeal the conviction, but the Supreme Court rejected his bid in January.
Biden’s former business partner was a central witness to the House GOP’s impeachment inquiry into former President Joe Biden and the extent he played a role in Hunter’s foreign business dealings. Archer previously testified before the House Oversight Committee in July 2023, telling lawmakers that the Biden family “brand” protected Ukrainian energy firm, Burisma Holdings.
Both Hunter Biden and Archer are former Burisma board members, and both made over $80,000 per month at one point while working for the company during Joe Biden’s vice presidency, bank records show.
Archer testified that the former president had spoken with Hunter Biden’s former business associates around 20 times and specifically described a spring 2014 dinner with Russian oligarch Elena Baturina and a spring 2015 dinner that the former president attended with Burisma executive, Vadim Pozharskyi.
Trump promised Archer a pardon on Saturday, according to the New York Post, when the pair met at the NCAA Wrestling Championship. President Biden issued a full pardon to his son and other family members before leaving office.
Regan Reese is a white house correspondent at the Daily Caller News Foundation
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