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WASHINGTON — At least he didn’t fall off this time.

President Biden was back on his bike Monday, pedaling around Rehoboth Beach, Del., as his troubled son’s former business partner Devon Archer answered questions on Capitol Hill.

The 80-year-old president and first lady Jill Biden zipped by reporters shortly after 11 a.m., with the president ignoring a shouted question about Chinese malware.

A small crowd watched from behind a rope line and cheered on the first couple, who wore matching long black pants, black T-shirts and bike helmets.

Three official vehicles led the bike convoy, which also included Secret Service agents on bicycles and in golf carts.

About an hour later, Joe and Jill circled back in front of the crowd, buzzing by once again without answering questions, but this time offering onlookers a smile and a wave.

Last year, Biden took an embarrassing tumble off his bike during another vacation near his Rehoboth Beach home.


  President Joe Biden goes on a bike ride in Gordons Pond State Park. AP President Joe Biden goes on a bike ride in Gordons Pond State Park. AP

  Biden and first lady Jill Biden out riding bikes in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on July 31, 2023. REUTERS Biden and first lady Jill Biden out riding bikes in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on July 31, 2023. REUTERS

  The Bidens were joined by their Secret Service detail. REUTERS The Bidens were joined by their Secret Service detail. REUTERS

  Biden sitting on the beach with first lady Jill Biden on July 30, 2023. Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images Biden sitting on the beach with first lady Jill Biden on July 30, 2023. Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images

After that stumble, which Biden blamed on getting his sneaker stuck in the toe cage on the pedal of his $599 Trek FX hybrid bike, Secret Service agents rushed to help the president to his feet.

Photos of the fall quickly became memes as Americans took to Twitter to mock the aging commander-in-chief.

Meanwhile, about 120 miles away in Washington, the House Oversight Committee took a deposition from Archer about the president’s role in his son’s foreign dealings.

Devon Archer testimony: All the explosive allegations made so far

Devon Archer is a former business partner of Hunter Biden who was found guilty of trying to defraud a Native American tribe of almost $60 million in bonds and was sentenced to a year-and-a-day prison term. He testified before Congress on Monday and made several bombshell allegations. Here is what has been brought to light so far.

Former Hunter Biden business partner Devon Archer testified about Hunter and Joe Biden’s foreign business dealings before Congress on Monday. AP
  • Archer testified that Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings added Hunter Biden to its board because of the Biden “brand,” and paid Hunter up to $1 million a year.
  • “Burisma would have gone out of business if ‘the brand’ had not been attached to it,” Archer claimed.
  • Archer testified that Hunter Biden referred to his father Joe as “my guy” and connected him to foreign business associates.
  • Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky put pressure on Hunter Biden to build US support for getting rid of Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, who was investigating his company, Archer testified.
  • Joe Biden was put on speakerphone in business meetings at least 20 times, Archer testified.
  • Hunter Biden bragged that Chinese business tycoon Che Feng loved him for his “last name” and was impressed by the group of “handsome Aryan godlike men” Biden brought with him “everywhere I go” in a 2011 email.
  • Che Feng helped Hunter Biden’s firm secure favorable terms on a business partnership with Jonathan Li’s Bohai Capital and lateral launch Bohai Harvest RST, emails show.
  • “I don’t believe in lottery tickets anymore, but I do believe in the super chairman,” Hunter Biden boasted in an email. Super chairman was the first son’s nickname for Feng.
  • Archer testified that Joe Biden met with Li while he served as vice president and wrote a college recommendation letter for his daughter.
  • Archer claimed that Feng was so generous to Hunter Biden due to his family connections.

The congressional questioning, which lasted a little more than four hours, came as congressional Republicans moved closer to launching an impeachment inquiry.

Archer confirmed that Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings added Hunter to its board in early 2014 because of the Biden “brand” as his dad led US policy concerning the Eastern European country.


  Hunter Biden’s former business partner Devon Archer arriving on Capitol Hill to testify before the House Oversight Committee on July 31, 2023. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Hunter Biden’s former business partner Devon Archer arriving on Capitol Hill to testify before the House Oversight Committee on July 31, 2023. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite


  Archer told Congress that Hunter Biden put his father on speakerphone over 20 times during meetings with foreign business associates. Daniel William McKnight Archer told Congress that Hunter Biden put his father on speakerphone over 20 times during meetings with foreign business associates. Daniel William McKnight

He added that Hunter Biden put his father on speakerphone more than 20 times during business meetings to promote “the brand” — including at a dinner in Paris with a French energy company and in China with Jonathan Li of BHR Partners, a state-backed investment fund co-founded by Hunter in 2013 after he introduced his father to Li during an official trip to Beijing.

Joe Biden is scheduled to remain in Rehoboth Beach until Friday, when he will return to his home in Wilmington to spend the weekend.


  Biden did not answer any questions from reporters during the outing. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Cenet Biden did not answer any questions from reporters during the outing. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Cenet
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