Ex-Hunter Biden biz partners Devon Archer, Tony Bobulinski smile and hug at Milken Conference steps away from Jill

Well, this is awkward.Ex-Hunter Biden business partners Devon Archer and Tony Bobulinski embraced one another at a swanky corporate shindig in Los Angeles Monday — with former first lady Jill Biden just steps away.The recently pardoned Archer and Bobulinski met on the sidelines of the Milken Institute Global Conference, where the latter had been introduced to Joe Biden in 2017 to discuss what became a $7 million energy venture with a Chinese state-linked firm, a House Republican investigation later revealed.The pair shook hands and Bobulinski wrapped his arm around Archer like a brother as they happily mugged for the camera outside the Bel Air Hotel.Jill Biden was seated just feet away from the two men who became key Republican impeachment witnesses against her husband, son and brother-in-law.Corporate titans descended on the annual gathering, sometimes referred to as the “Davos of the West,” to hear a featured address by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the Trump administration’s trade agenda and meet with other finance and business insiders.The soirée comes a little more than a month after President Trump pardoned Archer for ripping off an American Indian tribe by selling more than $60 million in bogus bonds as an executive at Burnhamm Financial Group.Hunter Biden was vice chairman of Burnham at the time of the sales — and earned up to $200,000 — but was not charged in 2016 alongside Archer.“I think he was treated very unfairly,” Trump said while signing Archer’s clemency in the Oval Office in March.Days later, the president also commuted the sentence of a second Hunter associate, Jason Galanis, for defrauding the same Oglala Sioux entity in South Dakota.Archer and Bobulinski had bumped into each other for the first time at the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where they paused to snap a picture with Rep.Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).Both were key informants for House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry last year into the...