From NYPOST.COM
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.
As he grows increasingly despondent, 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 was present at meetings Hunter arranged for his foreign business partners to meet with his father or talk to him on the phone.
He famously was photographed meeting the VP in his White House office weeks before Archer and Hunter joined the board of the corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
The appointment of Judge Richard Sullivan on the three-judge panel in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals hearing the case Tuesday is a cruel blow, says a source close to Archer, because the Trump-appointed judge reinstated his fraud conviction after it had been overturned by Obama appointee District Court Judge Ronnie Abrams, who declared “an unwavering concern that Archer is innocent.”
Archer is “caught between two presidents,” is how friends perceive his predicament.
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.
When Archer was 17, back in the summer of 1991, he and his family on Long Island played a role in helping Donald 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.
Maple’s manager at the time was Archer’s uncle, the legendary late CAA executive Charles Melniker. Whenever Maples came to the Melnikers’ Roslyn home, teenaged Archer was assigned to keep her busy by playing tennis with her at Gerlich’s Inn in Glen Head, and driving her around in his Jeep.
He also rode in Trump’s limousine three times and was on such familiar terms with the then-real estate developer he called him “Donald.”
“She was lovely,” recalls Melniker’s widow, Deanie Melniker, Archer’s aunt. “She stayed with us out on Long Island . . . We were spending the time with Marla because she didn’t have a gig and to keep her out of the crosshairs of reporters and people who were harassing her…. (Read more)
