Hunter Biden art show
sparks ethics concerns
New York Post,
by
Emily Jacobs
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
7/8/2021 12:06:37 PM
Government ethics watchdogs and art critics alike are voicing their concerns as first son Hunter Biden prepares for his first solo art exhibition this fall—where paintings from the former lawyer and lobbyist are expected to fetch between $75,000 and $500,000 and buyers will remain anonymous.
“The whole thing is a really bad idea,” Richard Painter, chief ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush, told the Washington Post.(Snip) Walter Shaub, who led the Office of Government Ethics under President Barack Obama, told the paper that the art buyers having their identities protected created a host of problems. “Because we don’t know who is paying
Reply 1 - Posted by:
vrb8m 7/8/2021 12:11:41 PM (No. 839315)
Sickening, too, that this garbage is hanging in the White House.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 7/8/2021 12:12:10 PM (No. 839316)
The gall!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bamapreacher 7/8/2021 12:38:27 PM (No. 839339)
75 to 500K for a painting by this slug? The old proverb "a fool and his money are soon parted" comes to mind. If some idiots want to waste their money let them have at it. No skin off anyone's nose but theirs.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Luandir 7/8/2021 12:46:36 PM (No. 839344)
The money is going to buy influence, not art. And it's probably not even his. Has he ever been focused enough to finish a painting?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
lakerman1 7/8/2021 12:46:38 PM (No. 839345)
Icing on the cake for the Biden Crime Family!
The Clintons ,must be green with envy!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jalo1951 7/8/2021 12:49:23 PM (No. 839347)
This is not a problem. It's just the bidens being the bidens. I guess dad has some more bills that need to be paid. And some people and or countries need some help from the WH.
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Ethics? Among the Xidens? Surely you jest.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 7/8/2021 12:59:05 PM (No. 839354)
So, the buyers are anonymous. What other contraband do the “art buyers” acquire —- favors such as zoning variances, no bid government contracts, appointments to do nothing jobs on boards, avoidance of government regulations, termination of indictments, dismissal of IRS liens, some insider trading tips perhaps? Does 10 percent go to the big guy?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
davew 7/8/2021 12:59:16 PM (No. 839355)
Its actually very clever as a money laundering scheme. Hunter buys art with dirty money and then auctions the same art at inflated prices to anonymous benefactors who pay him in clean money. If they art hasn't appreciated much he even gets to avoid taxes on the original dirty money. Brilliant! And the useful idiots in the press just nod like bobble heads.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
marbles 7/8/2021 1:02:34 PM (No. 839359)
Hunter and ethics......................hilarious.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
mc squared 7/8/2021 1:09:14 PM (No. 839363)
I assure you the buyers are NOT wasting their money. A hundred grand for a piece of shi-art could buy a lot of White House visits.
The perfect laundering scheme.
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Well, at least he ruled out doing lap dances in the VIP room in the West Wing for horny Arab sheiks. (Scrupples, ya know).
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Joe Biden is a Democrat, there are no ethics concerns. I could have left that last word off of that sentence
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
TLCary 7/8/2021 1:32:03 PM (No. 839384)
#3 Even Obama's Ethics Chief doesn't believe thats what is going on here. They are getting something for their money and it aint artwork. Not a new trick. Democratic Speaker Jim Wright was taken down by Newt for doing the same thing with a ridiculous pile of paper they called a book that was bought in mass by union goons laundering a bribe. He thought he would get away with it because the media gave him a pass. But Newt took it straight to the American People. A copy of the 'art', the price tag, and the buyers position will do for Hunter what it did for Jim. That's why they are hiding the buyers identity. It won't work for long.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
john56 7/8/2021 1:38:17 PM (No. 839388)
Maybe ethics "concerns ". But not anything like criminal charges.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JonR 7/8/2021 1:40:47 PM (No. 839389)
Ethics? Really?? The the words Ethics and Bidens are mutually exclusive!
What a frick’in joke this country has turned into!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
snakeoil 7/8/2021 2:13:38 PM (No. 839403)
Considering how badly Harry Truman reacted to a music critic who said his daughter couldn't carry a tune in a bucket, how will Quid Pro Joe react to an honest critque of Snorter's art work?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
moebellini3 7/8/2021 2:19:49 PM (No. 839409)
His paintings are pure garbage and all this is, is a money laundering scam and payoffs to the Bidens. These scum democrats talk about white privilege, the only privilege that exists is that democrats are immune to the law. When is this country going to wake up. Get it yet..
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/8/2021 2:36:40 PM (No. 839423)
The spelling of Art is missing the precursor F.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
hershey 7/8/2021 2:38:47 PM (No. 839427)
What are they paying him for? It surely isn't that junk 'art' he is peddling...access Slo Jo the Gropin Paedo maybe/??
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
crashnburn 7/8/2021 3:20:33 PM (No. 839464)
Ethics? Ethics? He don’t need no stinking ethics!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
seal010101 7/8/2021 3:20:41 PM (No. 839465)
Koko, the now late gorilla who knew sign-language, also painted. The owners of the art gallery have missed a golden opportunity, to have an exhibit of 2 artists of similar intellect and painting style.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Jebediah 7/8/2021 3:29:54 PM (No. 839476)
DUHHHHHHHHHHH!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Jebediah 7/8/2021 3:32:04 PM (No. 839479)
And as to poster #9, it isn't a brilliant ploy----were this a Trump, or for that matter ANY Republican, the Times and Post would be destroying them. We KNBOW what the Bidens are like and that Hunter is the Bagman for the Big Guy et al.....what this REALLY shows is the cupidity of the main stream media.
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It's an old scheme.
Mussolini's youngest son, Romano Mussolini, did the art-sale scam back in the day.
Sell paintings, kick some upstairs to the old man.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Boni 7/8/2021 4:16:26 PM (No. 839530)
The money that Hunter earns - and Joe gets as a percentage of the take - does not belong to them. They are selling influence and that money belongs to the people of the USA.
The money should be confiscated and put in the US treasury. In fact, we need a law that prohibits politicians and their family members from enriching themselves by selling influence. Any money they receive because of their connection to the US government should be confiscated - as is done with other criminals. Also, we must reform the 501c3 laws to mitigate the influence of large foundations on US policy and do away with 501c4 organizations altogether. Too much money and influence by corporations and foreign governments. Who is brave enough to do introduce legislation to put an end to this corruption of our government? Our representatives are not beholden to us, the voters, but to their big donors at the large foundations.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
smokincol 7/8/2021 4:33:02 PM (No. 839547)
any of the Hollywood and New York City libs going to pony up to buy "art" from joe biden's offspring? doubt it but, anyone as stupid as those people are, probably will and because they do will probably get a tax exemption just for helping out the poor mindless whelp
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Norway 7/8/2021 5:20:35 PM (No. 839613)
"Step right up! Buy yer influence right here!"
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
DVC 7/8/2021 6:18:32 PM (No. 839687)
Rubbing everyone's nose in the bribery for the Biden Crime Family.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 7/8/2021 7:04:47 PM (No. 839736)
Buying influence plus there morons with more money than brains buying this “art”. I remember all the fools who bought the paintings by John Wayne Gacy, the homosexual serial killer.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/8/2021 7:54:32 PM (No. 839785)
The “paintings” will all be bought up by oligarchs from Russia, Ukraine and China. Hence the need for anonimity.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
nerdowell 7/8/2021 8:27:37 PM (No. 839802)
not to mention that it mocks the very idea of art as a valued part of our culture
Oh well, a Biden's going to Biden.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
mifla 7/9/2021 5:14:41 AM (No. 839984)
Buy my art for a six figured price and Daddy will be happy to talk to you.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
mifla 7/11/2021 4:24:42 AM (No. 841927)
Wow. Is there anything that Hunter does not excel at? Just wow.
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