Monetizing the Biden brand with "art"?

 Miranda Devine:

Readers of the Washington Post (no relation!) were shocked last week to discover that the White House has an ethical problem regarding Hunter Biden cashing in on his father’s name.

Nice they’re finally catching on, only nine months after the New York Post began exposing Joe Biden’s history of complicity in his family’s influence-peddling schemes at home and abroad.

Of course, the White House and its media comrades are admitting concern only about a narrow, potentially, kind of, maybe, a bit problematic ethical dilemma over Hunter’s new career as a high-priced ink-blow artist.

“White House grapples with ethics of Hunter Biden’s pricey paintings” was the WaPo headline, giving the green light to allied media outlets to gently explore a subject that has been taboo since October.

But God forbid they admit the New York Post’s stories about Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop were legitimate journalism that never should have been banned by Twitter and Facebook and dismissed by those paragons of integrity ex-CIA Director John Brennan, ex-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and pals as Russian disinformation. No way. This is completely different. This is an example of a super-ethical White House, setting standards of honesty and transparency like we’ve never seen.

“The president has established the highest ethical standards of any administration in American history, and his family’s commitment to rigorous processes like this is a prime example,” Andrew Bates, a spokesperson for the White House, said with a straight face. Actually, he issued a written statement so no one could see his face.
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We are supposed to take on trust that the president is such an honest Joe, it’s impossible to buy access to the White House. He’s gotten away with this confidence trick his whole career.

If confronted, he becomes offended and deeply sad, as if any questioning his integrity compounds the burden of tragedy in his family life. Anyone with half a heart has to slink away and hope for the best.
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Monetizing what ever office Joe happens to hold has been the Biden family business for decades.  Little appears to have changed other than this time they are being super secret about whoever buys, i.e. donates to the Biden "artist."  Biden has a history of corruption and there is little reason to think things have changed.

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