WASHINGTON A top Republican claimed this week that a former business associate of the presidents son witnessed Hunter Biden being told to call Washington and get a Ukrainian prosecutor fired.

It turns out thats not what happened at all.

The former business partner, Devon Archer, spoke to lawmakers for several hours during a closed-door deposition on Monday, which Republicans billed as a major development in their quest to connect President Joe Biden to his sons foreign business deals.

Archer sat on the board of Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company that also employed Hunter Biden. House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) said Tuesday during an interview on Fox News that Archer revealed Burisma asked Biden to get his dads help with a troublesome Ukrainian prosecutor named Viktor Shokin.

We learned this week that Devon Archer said that Hunter Biden was told that he had to call Washington and get help and get that prosecutor, Shokin, fired, Comer said.

Under pressure from Democrats, Comer released a full transcript of the Archer interview on Thursday and it totally contradicts his statement on Fox News.

During the interview, Republicans asked about a specific meeting in December 2015 in which Burisma officials asked Hunter Biden to call D.C. for help with unspecified pressures facing the company. Archer said he didnt witness the phone call but was told about it afterward by Burismas corporate secretary, though not in any detail.