HUNTER BIDEN - ART - to the tune 'Mister Exposition' by Kevin MacLeod

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The second son of U.S. President Joe Biden, Robert Hunter Biden (born February 4, 1970) is reportedly selling his artwork that is listed for between $75,000 and $500,000. Those are startling prices. Does anybody believe Hunter Biden — who has dabbled in painting, without training, for just the last few years — is creating such masterpieces that he has rocketed past generations of struggling artists to command such valuations? The eye-watering sums, unheard of for a debuting artist, have prompted serious concerns by former White House ethics chiefs, who fear that money for the works could be used as proxy political donations or to curry favor with President Joe Biden and his family. So, the White House has come up with a plan to let Hunter Biden sell his art without him — or anyone in the Biden administration — finding out who bought the stuff. The idea is to discourage potential purchasers who might actually be more interested in buying favor with President Biden than in embracing the creative visions of his son.
Walter Shaub, the former Office of Government Ethics director under President Obama, said that Hunter's lucrative art career has a shameful and grifty feeling to it. "The notion of a president's son capitalizing on that relationship by selling art at obviously inflated prices and keeping the public in the dark about who's funneling money to him has a shameful and grifty feel to it. He can't possibly think anyone is paying him based on the quality of the art. This smells like an attempt to cash in on a family connection to the White House."
Adult children of presidents have the right to earn a living, of course, and it's probably impossible to do so wholly apart from their parent's fame and power. But Hunter Biden is already under scrutiny as The Department of Justice is investigating his finances regarding past dubious dealings.

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