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You know those ChiComs: if they’re anything, they’re great patrons of the arts — just think of those huge posters of Mao. And so it would be no surprise if they turned out to be fans of the noted painter who has been called “one of the most consequential artists in this century.” And why not? If they can buy access to and possibly even influence over the putative president of the United States for a mere $85,000, why not shoot the Struggling Artist a little coke money?
Just The News reported that “House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Monday suggested that some of first son Hunter Biden’s paintings may have made their way to China.” Why, who could possibly have guessed that the ever-resourceful Chinese government would spot an opportunity to use Old Joe Biden like a marionette, and hurry to take advantage? Comer said, “We fear that some of these paintings and some of those high dollar pieces of art went to China as well.”
The ”as well” may have been in reference to the other principal bit of information we know about who is buying Hunter’s paintings, which have been going for as much as $500,000 and generally for between $55,000 and $225,000 each. (Compare that to the fact that in 2021, a painting by one of the most celebrated artists of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso, sold for $150,000.) The one buyer whose name we have happens to be Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali, whom Business Insider describes as a “significant Democratic donor who has given $13,414 to the Biden campaign and $29,700 to the Democratic National Campaign Committee this year. In 2022, she hosted a fundraiser headlined by Vice President Kamala Harris.” In July 2022, Old Joe gave Hirsh Naftali a plum appointment to the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad.
Quid pro Joe? Come on, man! It’s just a total coincidence that the alleged president gave a fan of his son’s art an appointment, right? Comer wasn’t buying and said, “Every American should be insulted by Joe Biden thinking that they’re just gonna believe that no special interest or no foreign nationals are the buyers of that artwork. Of course, people who buy that crappy artwork from the president’s son are doing it to receive a benefit. There’s no — of course they are. And that’s further evidence. And I think you’re gonna see more evidence.”
Comer is right. It’s an insult to the American people, and a manifestation of the contempt Old Joe and Hunter have for us, that they would have thought for a second that anyone would buy the story that this crackhead who has never accomplished anything in his life would suddenly become one of the nation’s most successful artists. It was obvious influence-peddling from the get-go.
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Bexarkat says
I took a look at my unwoke dictionary for the definition of “consequential,” and it describes it as a synonym for crappy.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
One thing about that “artwork” – they are a part of the settlement he had w/ Lunden Roberts: that she can have some of them to raise money for their daughter Navy Joan. But why did Roberts agree to that? She should know that the real asset that they sold was influence w/ the then VP and now POTUS, something that doesn’t go w/ that deal. Why would anyone buy Hunter’s paintings from Lunden Roberts, when the only reason to buy that is influence-peddling?
Rarely says
Deeply ingrained in many appointments regardless of party. Usually a little more subtle.
Transmaster says
Yes Hunter is well known in the “Skid Mark” school of abstract art.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
A masterpiece of subterfuge.
Kepha says
If people want to buy Hunter Biden’s art, so be it. It will be hard to prove that this is influence peddling.
Still, for Zhou Baideng:
Old thief, step down!