Friday, July 9, 2021

Why is the White House even involved in this?

An art sale featuring Hunter Biden's work is expected to take place this fall. The Post reported that the gallery owner, Georges Bergès, will set the prices for the work and shield the names of the bidders and purchasers. Bergès will also reject any offer he deems suspicious, the Post said.

The arrangement is intended to prevent buyers from purchasing the artwork to gain access or favor with the Biden administration, but it represents the latest ethical headache for the president involving the work of his son, and ethics experts warned that the plan could backfire.

"So instead of disclosing who is paying outrageous sums for Hunter Biden’s artwork so that we could monitor whether the purchasers are gaining access to government, the WH tried to make sure we will never know who they are. That’s very disappointing," tweeted Walter Shaub, who led the Office of Government Ethics from 2013 to 2017.

"The idea’s that even Hunter won’t know, but the WH has outsourced government ethics to a private art dealer," Shaub continued in a lengthy Twitter thread. "We’re supposed to trust a merchant in an industry that’s fertile ground for money laundering, as well as unknown buyers who could tell Hunter or WH officials?

  The Hill
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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