I’m biting my tongue.
The New York Post broke the story about Hunter Biden’s laptop, spilling the Biden family connections and NSFW photos and videos of the first son.
That’s why this is…wow.
Biden dragged a New York Post reporter into a private showing of his “artwork” at the Georges Berges Gallery in Manhattan:
The scandal-scarred first son threw an arm around a Post reporter outside Georges Berges Gallery in Soho and invited him inside to an exclusive friends and family event ahead of Friday’s opening show featuring his newest paintings.“Hey buddy, what’s your name? Who are you with?” the president’s son asked the reporter.The reporter identified himself as a journalist with The Post and the first son-turned-painter gave him a friendly invite.“Why don’t you come inside the gallery at 6 and take a look without your phone out?” Biden asked as he threw his arm over the reporter’s shoulder and walked him to the door.
The paintings are priced between $65,000 and $200,000.
Despite that action, the selling of artwork brings up ethical concerns. But who cares about ethics, right?
Anyone who knows anything about history knows one of the easiest ways to launder money is through the art trade.
The buyers remain confidential, after all.
This has been on everyone’s mind since the “brilliant” Hunter became a painter. Art experts like his work but admit people are buying the name.
Former President Obama’s ethics chief Walter Shaub ripped into the first son’s art venture last year during an appearance on Law & Crime’s “Objections” podcast.”There is simply no way an artist who has never even juried into a community center art fair is going to suddenly show up in New York selling art for half a million a pop,” Shaub said. “Let’s talk about the magnitude of this. . . . That’s $6.5 million going to the president’s son for being the president’s son, not for being an artist, and I just think that’s absolutely appalling.”While Shaub called Hunter Biden a “sympathetic character,” he said that “some of his problems are of his own making,” specifically pointing to his repeated attempts of building his career around “being Joe Biden’s son.””If he were a patriot — if he cared about this country — he would not want to tarnish his father’s reputation that way. Now, we can’t fault him for not being a patriot. We can’t fault him for not caring enough about his father’s legacy to avoid this,” Shaub continued. “That’s a personal failing, and he doesn’t technically owe us anything, because he’s a citizen and not a government official, but then the White House crossed the line, and they got involved in this deal, and the art seller was theoretically always planning to keep the names secret, but the White House intervened to ask him to keep the names secret.”He later expressed his disgust about the White House “getting involved” with the art sale agreement, saying that it’s the “public’s problem” now.
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