You think Archer as lying?
It is important to note that it was Trump's FBI who created Form 1023, and that they found the claims not to be credible. That has not stopped the partisan hacks from reviving this horseshit to distract from Trump's current legal problems.
Archer confirms it was a hoax during his testimony:
Q. I want to ask you now about an FBI Form 1023 --
A. Uh-huh.
Q. -- that Chairman Comer and Senator Grassley recently made public, on July 20th.
A. Right.
Q. Do you -- have you seen that form?
A. Yeah.
Q. Is it your understanding that in this form an FBI confidential human source is reporting years after the fact statements supposedly made by executives at Burisma, including Mykola Zlochevsky?
A. Yes.
Q. That's what it represents.
A. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Q. In this form, the FBI confidential human source appears to relate a statement attributed to Mykola Zlochevsky that says, "It costs five to pay one Biden and five to another," the mark "million" in parentheses. Do you remember reading that?
A. I do. I do.
Q.
Were you ever made aware of Mr. Zlochevsky paying $5 million to two different Bidens?
A.
No, I'm not. I would assume he's probably talking about me and Hunter, but I don't know. But I don't know anything about those five.
Q. Based on your knowledge, including your work for Burisma's board, your conversations with Hunter Biden, Mykola Zlochevsky, and others at Burisma, does this allegation strike you as credible, meaning the allegation that there were two $5 million payments to two Bidens?
A. I think it's --
the agent explains it pretty well on the bottom. And it's similar to, you know, Hunter Biden taking credit for his dad's visit.
It's like sending a signal.
So he's bragging to this guy that they paid, you know, where he probably paid $5 million or whatever, $6 million altogether, you know, so that, you know, just to show he's -- well, there's a lot of -- and he explains it. I forget. There's a word in the document.
Mr. Schwartz. You're guessing.
Are you aware of a $5 million payment --
Mr. Archer.
No.
Mr. Schwartz.
-- to one Biden and a $5 million payment to another?
Mr. Archer.
No.
Mr. Schwartz. You ever hear anything about that?
Mr. Archer. In that document.
Q. Other than that document.
A. The $5 million and the $5 million, I first saw that in the document.
Q.
And so I think the point you're referring to is that in this document the confidential human source says he cannot opine to the veracity of the allegations and notes that it's not unusual for Ukrainian business executives to brag or show off.
A.
Correct.
Q. Is that consistent with your understanding?
A. It's consistent of what I was just explaining in both directions.
Q. If someone were to conclude from this that this is evidence, this Form 102314 is evidence that Joe Biden was bribed by Mykola Zlochevsky, would you disagree with that conclusion?
A. Yeah, I would.
Boom.