It has been a tough stretch for Hunter Biden recently. His plea deal has fallen apart, he has been rumored to allegedly have some connection to a certain white powder found in the White House around the 4th of July, and he was caught on camera around the same time furiously rubbing his face and swiping his nose, possible gacked out of substances.
However, on the art side, Biden is doing swimmingly well thanks to a mystery buyer who reportedly has purchased $875k worth of Joe Biden’s son’s paintings recently. That is a pretty nice windfall for Biden, and considering he owes back taxes and child support, it comes just in time. How convenient.
The mystery buyer, who apparently is a collector of refined taste, purchased 11 of Biden’s finest works, including a 12-foot-long sheet metal piece appropriately named “Pandemonium.” Whether he named the piece after his lifestyle remains to be seen, but what we do know is Hunter Biden has a very generous fan of his art.
The buyer, who lives outside of New York, purchased the works from Biden’s dealer, who coincidentally or not has strong ties to Communist China. Biden’s dealer also is a suspected money launderer, so perhaps he does more than just deal art for Hunter Biden. While that is purely speculation, it certainly doesn’t look any better than the alleged art does.
Reports indicate: “A gallery contract with Hunter Biden’s handwritten edits show him excluding the sales of NFTs from the gallery’s 40 percent commission. That one buyer represents the majority of the $1,379,000 in receipts that Hunter Biden’s gallery received for his work, the documents show, with the gallery receiving a 40 to 45 percent commission.”
Truly a win/win proposition for the president’s son and the dealer and gallery. Biden’s dealer, at least of art, Georges Bergès, has long boasted of his strong ties to the Chinese Communist Party, even boasting of plans to be the “lead” Chinese art dealer.
Bergès has also admitted to making numerous trips yearly to China to serve his “solid group of about 25 collectors, most of them overseas.”
Despite being sued in 2016 for fraud and breach of contract, Bergès set the prices for Biden’s paintings while withholding “all records, including potential bidders and final buyers.” Bergès also has a checkered past, including an arrest in Santa Cruz, California, for assault with a deadly weapon and ‘terrorist threats.’
Certainly, this isn’t the kind of unsavory character the son of a sitting president should be keeping company with, but he fits the mold. It takes shady people to pull off shady deals, and while there is no overt wrongdoing surrounding the sale of the art for the exorbitant prices, it all still seems scurrilous, at best.
None of this is a good look for Hunter Biden, who is under fire for potential gun and tax charges, and who continually embarrasses himself and the White House. However, none of this seems to matter to Joe Biden, as he continues to deny any knowledge of his son’s art sales or business dealings.
It remains to be seen if anything more will be revealed about the buyer or the motivation behind the purchases, so for now, Hunter Biden will have a nice nest egg of funds from art sales, legitimate or not.
Hunter image By Center for Strategic & International Studies – Panel 3: Our Shared Opportunity: A Vision for Global Prosperity, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=93062660
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