Posted on 01/10/2024 10:34:51 AM PST by SeekAndFind
You may remember Georges Bergès. He’s the New York art gallery proprietor who has exhibited Hunter Biden’s paintings and insisted, with a straight face, that the Big Guy’s bag man is a genuine artist. Now, however, Bergès has admitted what the entire world knew all along: the whole Hunter-As-Picasso shtick was just another Biden influence-peddling scheme.
House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer interviewed Bergès and issued this statement on Tuesday:
The Biden White House appears to have deceived the American people about facilitating an ethics agreement governing the sale of Hunter Biden’s art. Hunter Biden’s gallerist never had any communication with the White House about such an agreement to make sure there was any sort of ethics compliance at all, and he provided information to the committee revealing how Hunter Biden’s amateur art career is an ethics nightmare. The vast majority of Hunter Biden’s art has been purchased by Democrat donors, one of whom was appointed by President Biden to a prestigious commission after she purchased Hunter Biden’s art for tens of thousands of dollars shortly after Biden’s inauguration. The White House has a lot of explaining to do about misleading the American people.
Biden’s handlers are not the only ones who need to do some explaining. Bergès himself does as well. He famously said in February, “I know that there’s a lot of politics involved at the moment which is a shame because his work is not only good, it’s important. Hunter Biden will become one of the most consequential artists in this century because the world needs his art now more than ever.”
Consequential. Yeah, that’s undeniably true, but the consequential nature of Hunter Biden’s art may not lie within his paintings themselves but in the purposes for which they were created and sold.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
In comparison, in 2021 a painting by Pablo Picasso sold for $150,000. To be sure, better-known Picasso paintings frequently sell for millions, but it was astonishing for Hunter Biden's paintings to be selling for prices that were remotely comparable to what was paid for anything that one of the great masters produced.
Art works and book deals have become obvious methods of money laundering.
Picasso didn’t know Joe Biden
It was all money laundering.
“Art works and book deals have become obvious methods of money laundering.”
Two of the oldest money laundering methods. Because, “value” is all in the eyes of the “beholder.”
It was so obvious....even the media was all over it.
;p
For female politicians its “writing children’s books.”
Same words I thought of immediately: money laundering
But, did he REALLY paint those pictures himself???
We saw him with brushes, making a few strokes - all are completely different in nature, not as if he has an actual style.
You always launder the bribes through the family.
They were blow art—he used a straw.
You have won the internet today. That is awesome
As are: running/managing Non-Profits and NGOs.
Liberal job fairs.
...maenwhile Trump is in court defending himself over business deals that were lawful.... go figure...
I wonder of Hunters dealings could stand up to scrutiny of a Red State AG?
The buyers weren’t paying for the paintings, they were buying access.
Valuable. Collectable. A sound investment for serious collectors.
Coming soon: the executive scarf collection! Order now!
Art works and book deals are chump change compared to the “Clinton Foundation.”
LOL. In that photo of him “painting,” notice the bristles, ferrule, handle of the brush are completely clean as is his hand. That takes remarkable talent.
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