SenateвЂ™s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations last year specifiedВ the art world as вЂњan environment ripe for laundering money. вЂњmade little watercolorsвЂќ like Hunter BidenвЂ™s вЂњartвЂќ and вЂњsold them at an iffy commercial gallery for upwards of $150,000.вЂќДЄrtnet NewsвЂ™s national art criticВ Ben Davis wroteВ the headline,В вЂњHey Hunter Biden, HereвЂ™s a Radically Simple Solution for All Your Art Woes: DonвЂ™t Sell Your Work,вЂќ with the subtitle, вЂњIf Hunter Biden wants his art to be received outside a political black box, his best bet is not to sell it.вЂќ

Senior Art Critic Jerry Saltz on Friday said,В вЂњimagineвЂќ ifВ Donald Trump Jr. And they are essentially saying вЂTrust Us.вЂ™ Joe and Hunter BidenвЂ™s track record on such matters gives us no reason to trust them.вЂќДЄrt critics, too, are coming forth with concerns. вЂњTheir proposed solution is greater secrecy, not transparency. вЂњThe only way to address these issues is with greater transparencyвЂ“not less,вЂќ Schweizer explained. White House press secretary Jen Psaki on July 22 labeledВ HunterвЂ™s meeting with potential вЂњanonymousвЂќ art buyers in New York and LosВ Angeles as вЂњreasonable.вЂќД«reitbart News senior contributor and Profiles in CorruptionВ author Peter Schweizer, however, toldВ Breitbart News the вЂњanonymousвЂќ proposal is an utterly вЂњabsurdвЂќ solution. вЂњI plan to find and discover and bring to the rest of the world those I consider ChinaвЂ™s next generation of modern artists.вЂќ вЂњMy plan is to be the lead guy in China the lead collector and art dealer discovering and nurturing talent from that region,вЂќВ BergГЁsВ said in 2015. To make the optics worse,В Hunter recently struckВ a deal with art dealer Georges BergГЁs, who has strong connections with China, which, incidentally, occurredВ around the time when President Joe BidenвЂ™s son consummated deals with Chinese officials andВ madeВ tens of thousands of dollars per month serving on the board of Burisma in 2014. вЂњAnd then you add that to the Chinese dealings, the Burisma dealings and the kind of long, sad history of selling the Biden name for influence,вЂќ he continued.

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