Why did a middle-age man addicted to crack and prostitutes hold a seat on the boards of foreign energy companies? He was selling the Biden “brand.”

To sum it up, that’s the not-at-all-shocking takeaway from yesterday’s closed-door congressional testimony by former Hunter Biden associate Devon Archer. He told Congress that scandal-plagued and corrupt “Burisma would have gone out of business if ‘the brand’ had not been attached to it,” as summarized by House Oversight Chairman James Comer. Thanks to the Biden connection, “People would have been intimidated to mess with Burisma legally.”

Indeed, we already knew that then-Vice President Biden pressured former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, who was investigating Burisma. Biden’s on video bragging as much.

We already knew that “all roads point to Joe Biden.” We expect when Comer releases the testimony transcript later this week we’ll see even more evidence of that.

What’s intriguing about Archer’s testimony, then, is that Republicans keep digging and finding more corroborating evidence of the sleazy operation run by the Biden Crime Family. Archer testified that Joe Biden joined at least 20 dinners or phone calls with Hunter and his business associates. As Comer explained, that “confirms Joe Biden lied to the American people when he said he had no knowledge about his son’s business dealings and was not involved.”

In August 2019, Biden lied, “I have never discussed with my son or my brother or anyone else anything having to do with their business, period.”

Predictably, of course, Democrats who heard the same testimony are reading the same memo as the White House: admit nothing, deny everything, and make counterallegations.

According to Democrat Representative Dan Goldman, Joe didn’t talk about business (it was just “the weather,” honest), and sometimes he didn’t even know who he was talking to or why. So, what was it? Proof that the hostage was alive?

Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman says Hunter Biden did, in fact, frequently put his dad on speakerphone for his business partners — but they were only talking about the weather pic.twitter.com/HoJ5EKYOEc

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 31, 2023

If the phone calls had happened last week, we’d probably believe that, but they were back before Biden’s dementia had clearly set in, when he held a position of power and influence in the Obama administration.

White House spokesman Ian Sams called it an “evidence-free wild goose chase” in which Republicans “keep failing to produce any” evidence.

None of that tops the musings of former Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill, though. Republicans, she insisted, “are going to try to indict a father for loving his son who has been addicted to drugs and/or alcohol, and without evidence of the father doing anything other than loving that son.”

Over the weekend, Biden’s Justice Department requested that U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams set a date for Archer to report to prison for unrelated crimes. The DOJ denies this, of course, but that news is clearly an effort to intimidate and discredit Archer.

That is, after all, the Biden Crime Family business. Well, that and lying to the American people.