The Washington Post is reporting that the Biden White House is concerned about how it looks to have the president’s son deciding to become an artist who is selling his work for up to a half-million dollars.
NEW: White House officials have helped craft an agreement to try and avoid ethical issues as Hunter Biden tries to sell his art. But the sale — and prices up to $500,000 — is drawing criticism from ethics experts and art critics. My latest: https://t.co/Ng9w58ZwPS
— Matt Viser (@mviser) July 8, 2021
But hey, maybe Hunter’s just really talented, and the art world has noticed — or not. The reviews are in. Here’s one:
Asked whether Hunter Biden’s art was any good, one critic said: “I would call it very much a hotel art aesthetic…It’s somewhere between a screen saver and if you just Googled ‘midcentury abstraction’ and mashed up whatever came up.”https://t.co/Ng9w58HVri
— Matt Viser (@mviser) July 8, 2021
Ouch!
Avoid ethical issues with Hunter Biden?
Good luck with that https://t.co/Cl01BYExmT— PG Howie (@pghowie3) July 8, 2021
Cool. So the Big Guy is NOT going to get 10% off this art deal? Or get his home maintenance and utilities paid?
"Craft an agreement"? Please! If this was @DonaldJTrumpJr the marxists would be having seizures. https://t.co/DR4EE8Yztb
— Airess (@Airess) July 8, 2021
Fine Art is a common method of money laundering https://t.co/iXSzVJtBfN
— Midas Mulligan 🟩 (@BitcoinMidas_) July 8, 2021
yanno if a trump kid did this stelter would tear his clothes off and wail at the camera about ethics violations https://t.co/XJGN6fMobT
— BuffyLegallyBae (@Buffyinnyc) July 8, 2021
Just imagine (well, we don’t really want to imagine that).
Hunter's art=Billy Beer.
Remember?
🍻💰 https://t.co/T4WnONIkZr— Bill Kennedy (@backtothemovie) July 8, 2021
But in no way does all the interest in buying Hunter Biden’s art have anything to do with who his father happens to be. *Eye roll*
“The whole thing is a really bad idea,” said Richard Painter, who was chief ethics lawyer to President Bush
“What these people are paying for is Hunter Biden’s last name,” said Walter Shaub, who headed the Office of Government Ethics from 2013 to 2017https://t.co/Ng9w58HVri
— Matt Viser (@mviser) July 8, 2021
The buyers are paying because of the last name, and possibly even a little more.
— Dr. Ricardo Harambe (@Richard_Harambe) July 8, 2021
“A distinctly unique experience that have become signature Biden.” Well, we can’t really argue with that.