The art of Hunter Biden's latest deal
By Kris Kolesnik, opinion contributor — 07/10/21 09:15 AM EDT
Just when we had said good riddance to four years of family dealing during the Trump era, Hunter Biden turns up like a bad penny. That howling you hear in the distance is the Fox newsroom erupting in uproarious glee.
According to an article in The Washington Post, Hunter Biden is about to dive into the murky waters of the art world, and his dealer has set the price range for his work at an eye-popping $75,000 to $500,000.
Paintings by even well-known impressionists from the 19th century can fall within that price range. And they’re all dead.
At first blush, this might seem like simply a refrain of Biden’s joining the board of energy company Burisma in Ukraine, in which he profited off his father’s name when the latter was vice president. But in the Burisma case, no evidence was found of then-Vice President Biden doing favors for his son’s company. It simply looked bad. It was Hunter Biden shamelessly sponging off his father’s name while embarrassing his father.
In this case, though, Hunter’s deep dive has the White House preposterously in tow. According to the Post report, White House officials helped craft an ethics agreement to govern purchases of the artwork. The agreement calls for the nondisclosure of purchaser and purchase price, even to the First Son.
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