Posted on 07/29/2023 8:55:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
As Republicans in the House of Representatives continue to push for an investigation into the sales of Hunter Biden’s artwork, Business Insider published a report on Monday that claimed to reveal at least two buyers of these pieces: Democratic donor Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali and Kevin Morris, a financial backer and friend of Biden.
Though President Joe Biden vowed that official duties would remain separate from his family affairs, his son’s art patrons appear to be politically and personally linked.
Hirsh Naftali, Los Angeles real estate investor and philanthropist, has donated $13,414 to the Biden campaign and $29,700 to the Democratic National Campaign Committee this year alone. Vice President Kamala Harris headlined a fundraiser that she hosted in 2022.
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Another unknown single buyer purchased 11 Hunter Biden paintings for $875,000. That buyer has reportedly purchased the majority of a $1.38 million total in sales.
“The gallery sets the pricing and handles all sales based on the highest ethical standards of the industry, and does not disclose the names of any purchasers to Mr. Biden,” Abbe Lowell, Hunter Biden’s legal counsel, said in a statement to Business Insider after Hunter Biden learned the identities of Hirsh Naftali and a second buyer.
The only other known buyer is the Los Angeles attorney Kevin Morris, who also serves as Hunter Biden’s financial backer. Morris allegedly purchased the art through Biden’s gallery, though it was suggested to the New York Times that the art may have been a gift. Hunter Biden has also borrowed more than $2 million from Morris, who helped him pay back taxes and avoid felony penalties in a settlement with the Department of Justice last month. Hunter Biden pled guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges.
New York gallery Georges Bergès debuted Biden’s paintings, which pay homage to personal struggles with drug addiction and mental health, in a 2021 exhibition. Some of his works are priced as high as $500,000—the prices reportedly set by the gallery without any influence from the White House. Georges Bergès began working with Hunter Biden before his father was elected president.
This report from Business Insider comes on the heels of repeated requests for an investigation into Hunter Biden’s art sales by house Republicans, who have scrutinized the cost and patrons of the work.
Spokespersons for the White House and Georges Bergès did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Huh?
For a moment there I thought house Republicans were the ones buying his art.
You never know.
Obviously, nothing is standing in the way of the buyers themselves notifying Biden that they have purchased his "works" - and they undoubtedly did so.
"So, Hunter: I've just purchased a painting entitled 'Still Life with Crack Pipe' for $450,000, and was wondering where best I should hang it. Care to weigh in on that?"
Regards,
“Buyers” of Hunter’s art?
That’ll be the day.
Show us the cancelled checks.
BACKSTORY: Not many people bought Hunter Biden’s book
(Captain Underpants children’s book sold 55,000 more copies)
independent.co.uk/ ^ | Friday 16 April 2021 | Justin Vallejo, New York
Posted on 4/18/2022, 8:35:20 AM by Liz
Captain Underpants Dog Man, the children’s book, sold almost 55,000 more copies than Beautiful Things as the Hunter Biden memoir flopped during its first week in bookstores.
Despite glowing press coverage from CBS This Morning to Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the tome sold only 10,638 copies on the Publishers Weekly chart that was topped by the 10th volume in the Dog Man series.
In the non-fiction hardcover list category, Beautiful Things was ranked 12th, well below the top-selling The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country, that was read by Amanda Gorman at Joe Biden’s inauguration. It sold 42,318 copies in the same week.
The autobiography of the president’s troubled son contains salacious details of crack cocaine drug addiction, an affair with his dead brother’s wife, fathering a child with a stripper.
“In the last five years alone, my two-decades-long marriage has dissolved, guns have been put in my face, and at one point I dropped clean off the grid, living in $59-a-night Super 8 motels off the I-95 while scaring my family even more than myself,” he wrote.
CNN’s Brian Stelter promoted it on Reliable Sources as “breathtaking” and “extraordinary”, while the publicity tour for the confessional saw interviews with Mr Biden on the BBC, ABC, and twice on CBS.
Asked in the interviews whether the notorious laptop reported by The New York Post during the election campaign, that showed a side not even revealed in his memoir, belong to him, Mr Biden said it likely could have.
“Of course certainly. It, it, there could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me. It could be that I was hacked. It could be that it was the – that it was Russian intelligence. It could be that it was stolen from me,” he said.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has said that the administration was not involved in vetting the content that went into the 272-page tell-all, but that the president was “proud” about the personal story being told
“We were not [involved in vetting], it was a book he wrote himself, the president and first lady put out a statement, making clear, in February I should say when the book was announced,” she said.
“They’re ‘deeply supportive of their son sharing his account about his painful experiences with addiction’, which is exactly what the book does and they’re hopeful that it can help millions of people who have struggled with the same challenges.”
Despite all the news that flowed from Mr Biden’s revelations, and the publicity tour around it, the book only sold 11,000 copies (rounding up).
That was still enough to place it on The New York Times’ Best Sellers list at 4th in the “Hardcover Nonfiction” category, while it landed on Amazon at fifth in the nonfiction category in its first week.
Among comparable non-fiction books on the Publishers Weekly rankings, Mr Biden was beaten by Fox News host Shannon Bream, whose title The Women of the Bible Speak: The Wisdom of 16 Women and Their Lessons for Today, sold 32,686 copies.
That placed Ms Bream second behind the inauguration poem The Hill We Climb, from Ms Gorman, which sold a huge 256,985 copies this year. That’s still dwarfed by half-million sales of Dog Man in 2021.
Deceptive title. If you don’t read it carefully, you might conclude that it’s saying Republicans are buying Humper’s paintings.
Demonrats get all their ideas from corrupt communists. Long before Hunter, a CCP bureaucrat’s daughter suddenly became an art painter with instant commercial success, to launder Dad’s bribes. Before, you could look this story up on the search engines easily, but it has since been scrubbed off the internet.
Nice find.......looks like Hunter grabbed onto it bigtime.....
when “poor daddy” needed a new money laundry.
“So, Hunter: I’ve just purchased a painting entitled ‘Still Life with Crack Pipe’ for $450,000, and was wondering where best I should hang it. Care to weigh in on that?”
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Lol
President Trump on Saturday held a ‘Make America Great Again’ rally in Erie, Pennsylvania at the huge Erie Insurance Arena. Thousands of people lined up early in the rain to see President Trump. The house was packed!
Buyers of Hunter Biden’s art buy favors from his daddy.
The Biden’s For Sale sign is always lit.
How very sanctimonious. Yes, we believe that. Totally.
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