January 24, 2024 • 9 mins
Something fishy is going on with Hunter Biden's art deals... but of course no one is talking about it. Could you imagine if it was Eric Trump behind this scandal?!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I just I wish I could unrealist for you. In
real time, I became aware of the testimony of Hunter
Biden's art dealer in front of the House Committee, the
Oversight Committee, and the things that he said, which, among
other things, make it clear that what we were told
at the beginning that the identity would be carefully hidden
(00:23):
and there would be no chance for any untoward, any
ethics violation, blah blah blah, that was completely fictional, utterly
without truth.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
So just big picture, Am I supposed to believe that
Hunter Biden living his crazy lifestyle of horror?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Sorry, hang on, I gotta finish. I gotta finish. So
that was the first thing I became aware of. And
then Jack casually mentioned at the end of the last segment, well,
the Washington Post is covering it. They had an article
about it. To my surprise, I hadn't seen it. So
I went and found that article.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
And it is a.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Tour It is a masterpiece speaking of art, it is
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony of writing a story around the facts.
Awesome and the facts that you feel like, oh my god,
I gotta mention this are buried four hundred and forty
three paragraphs deep in the story. It is a masterclass
(01:19):
in untruthful journalism.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
So I want to hear all this, But so all along,
am I supposed to believe that Hunter Biden, who is
living a life of whorrors and gambling and sex and
smoking crack and all that sort of stuff and his
spare time, was really working on his craft though, was
practicing his art.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
When did he When did he learn to paint? I
was just so mind bogglingly talented. He really didn't have to.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I don't think that's true for anybody anyway. That's weird
that he'd fit that into his life somewhere. That is weird.
So all right, where do I start? I guess let's
start with the testimony of the art dealer. And what's
the total number? Because I think that gets your attention
(02:05):
to realize what we're talking about here. It's like a
million and a half dollars total.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, I think he made oh ten buyers paid a
total of one point five million dollars for his work.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I like art.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I actually have some art. I generally look for really talented, local.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
And regional people.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I have no interest in spending a zillion dollars and
impressing anybody. I just like to support people I think
are talented and working hard. Anyway, the idea that these
are one hundred and fifty thousand dollars each on average,
you're into holy Crapville. I know you see the headlines
about a renoir went for forty eight million dollars. But
I mean, in the world of like real people, one
(02:45):
hundred and fifty k.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
What. Yeah, that's as insane as it sounds to you.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
But he sold ten for an average of one hundred
and fifty K and made just under a million dollars
from it, and his gallery owner gets forty percent. I
think he made six hundred thousand dollars. So here's the testimony. Uh,
they ask him at this point there have been had
there been discussions about keeping the buyers of Hunter Biden's
art anonymous?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Answer?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I believe the in the first one he in the
first contract, he was able to know who the buyers were. Okay, yeah,
I don't know how I was phrased, but I remember
that was the difference. Is that normal or what's the
Is that a normal kind of contract? Art dealer says
that part was different than normally. The gallerist does not
let the artists know who the collectors are.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
So wait a minute, let's stop right there. So, not
only did what was claimed not.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Happen that oh, we're keeping a very strict secrecy, but
the opposite happened in defiance of all norms in tradition.
It was demanded of this art dealer whose name is
Burget I believe. Oh yeah, I got to know who's
buying the art. Well, okay, dude, if you want, all right,
I'll tell you. Hunter Biden wanted to know who was
purchasing his art when he first starts with you. Yeah,
(04:00):
that was the initial contract. Correct. So, and here's where
it gets great. So when you're seeing in the press
this is the question obviously that the White House is
putting in certain safeguards regarding an ethics agreement. But you've
had no conversations about it with the White House. I mean,
did you ever say to Hunter Biden, hey, where's this
coming from? This is in the press saying the White
(04:21):
House is involved in this ethics agreement. They're not even
involved in the agreement at all. I might have said that, Yeah,
I probably did. Do you remember what he said to you?
I don't. I remember I do remember being surprised. Why
were you surprised? Well, because I hadn't had any communication
with the White House about an agreement and the question
(04:42):
and so I'm trying to understand what you're surprised about
when the White House is putting out this statement that
they're working with Hunter Biden and the Galeries regarding an
ethics agreement, and you've never had a conversation with the
White House or counsels, never had a conversation with the
White House. Correct, Well, yeah, that surprised me. Well did
you ever see a statement from the White House or
did you just see the press report about what the
press was saying? The White House said, I just saw
(05:04):
the press reports, I think.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
So he's following the news and seeing all this stuff
about their the White House is working very hard to
put up walls between the buyers and Hunter Biden's art
to make sure no Shenanigan's happen or anything like that,
and he's thinking, what nobody's.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
The hell are they talking about? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Question, Well, do you have any reason to believe the
press reports are incorrect?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Well? They were incorrect, he says. He's like, how are
they incorrect?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
There was no agreement. That's how they're incorrect. So back
to the question. Answer, based upon my math, just to
Kevin Morris. Kevin Morris is the sugar brother, and I've
got quotes from him and the WAPO that are hilarious.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
With the tight purple suits and the slick back hair.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
That guy, yeah, yeah, the party boy and the heavy
duty Democrat donor. Based on my math, just to Kevin
Morris and the Elizabeth knoff Tali she's another big Democratic
donor who got a plumb position in the Biden administration
after buying one of Hunter's paintings.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Surely just a coincidence anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
So based upon my math, just the Kevin Morris and
Elizabeth Neftally purchases total sixty four percent of the total
money that's been spent on Hunter Biden's art. Correct, Okay,
so we can say, and if you add in Bill Jacques,
it's approximately seventy percent. So despite this agreement that's been
set up, seventy percent of the art that's been purchased,
(06:29):
Hunter Biden knows the buyer based on my calculations. So
my question to you is that's okay, then that's not
terribly consequential. Let's skip ahead. So Kevin Morris just paid
you the forty percent of the eight hundred and seventy
five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Correct, you gave you a check.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Normally he would pay eight hundred and seventy five thousand
dollars to the gallery and then you would give sixty
percent of the artist.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Correct. Have you ever done that before?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
The arrangement that happened where you got paid directly the
forty percent from the purchaser. Has that ever happened before?
What he's explaining or getting at is, when you buy
a piece of art from a gallery, you pay the gallery,
then the gallery pays the artist. But in this case,
the purchaser wrote a check to the gallery for their
cut and then paid the artist directly, which never happens. No,
(07:21):
So not only was it strictly anonymous, not that everybody
knew precisely who is buying one and who is exchanging money,
and they exchanged it directly in a way that never
happens in the art world. Has that ever happened before?
Not that I can recall. I'm a collector. I don't
(07:43):
want to ruin the relationship with the artists that they
have with the gallery.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
So a question.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
If you don't know the sixty percent of the eight
seventy five hunter Biden never got paid that you don't
know if he did or didn't. I don't know, you
don't know. But in this experience, is the only time
this has happened with you, this kind of payment. I
can recall, Oh, we're making putting up a high ethical wall.
And it goes on and goes into this chicknth tally
(08:09):
you got the plumb position in the Biden administration after
buying the art. But I think you get the idea
everybody knew who she was, direct payments, etcetera.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Sir, can you imagine if this had been Eric Trump
the artist and selling it for millions of dollars and
no barrier between the Trump family and who's buying it,
and somebody got a job in the White.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
House all that sort of stuff. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
And then the one final note is they really drive
home that this woman had never been to the gallery,
never talked to this guy, never bought an art, nothing
totally unknown.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Then as soon.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
As Joe Biden wins the presidency, she shows up with
her checkbook and wants to spend six figures on art.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
This art, this specific art, but.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
There was a high ethical wall bill.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
It's money laundering. Good more, it's so amazingly transparent.
I just I wish I could unrealist for you. In
real time, I became aware of the testimony of Hunter
Biden's art dealer in front of the House Committee, the
Oversight Committee, and the things that he said, which, among
other things, make it clear that what we were told
at the beginning that the identity would be carefully hidden
(00:23):
and there would be no chance for any untoward, any
ethics violation, blah blah blah, that was completely fictional, utterly
without truth.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
So just big picture, Am I supposed to believe that
Hunter Biden living his crazy lifestyle of horror?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Sorry, hang on, I gotta finish. I gotta finish. So
that was the first thing I became aware of. And
then Jack casually mentioned at the end of the last segment, well,
the Washington Post is covering it. They had an article
about it. To my surprise, I hadn't seen it. So
I went and found that article.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
And it is a.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Tour It is a masterpiece speaking of art, it is
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony of writing a story around the facts.
Awesome and the facts that you feel like, oh my god,
I gotta mention this are buried four hundred and forty
three paragraphs deep in the story. It is a masterclass
(01:19):
in untruthful journalism.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
So I want to hear all this, But so all along,
am I supposed to believe that Hunter Biden, who is
living a life of whorrors and gambling and sex and
smoking crack and all that sort of stuff and his
spare time, was really working on his craft though, was
practicing his art.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
When did he When did he learn to paint? I
was just so mind bogglingly talented. He really didn't have to.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I don't think that's true for anybody anyway. That's weird
that he'd fit that into his life somewhere. That is weird.
So all right, where do I start? I guess let's
start with the testimony of the art dealer. And what's
the total number? Because I think that gets your attention
(02:05):
to realize what we're talking about here. It's like a
million and a half dollars total.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, I think he made oh ten buyers paid a
total of one point five million dollars for his work.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I like art.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I actually have some art. I generally look for really talented, local.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
And regional people.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I have no interest in spending a zillion dollars and
impressing anybody. I just like to support people I think
are talented and working hard. Anyway, the idea that these
are one hundred and fifty thousand dollars each on average,
you're into holy Crapville. I know you see the headlines
about a renoir went for forty eight million dollars. But
I mean, in the world of like real people, one
(02:45):
hundred and fifty k.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
What. Yeah, that's as insane as it sounds to you.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
But he sold ten for an average of one hundred
and fifty K and made just under a million dollars
from it, and his gallery owner gets forty percent. I
think he made six hundred thousand dollars. So here's the testimony. Uh,
they ask him at this point there have been had
there been discussions about keeping the buyers of Hunter Biden's
art anonymous?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Answer?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I believe the in the first one he in the
first contract, he was able to know who the buyers were. Okay, yeah,
I don't know how I was phrased, but I remember
that was the difference. Is that normal or what's the
Is that a normal kind of contract? Art dealer says
that part was different than normally. The gallerist does not
let the artists know who the collectors are.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
So wait a minute, let's stop right there. So, not
only did what was claimed not.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Happen that oh, we're keeping a very strict secrecy, but
the opposite happened in defiance of all norms in tradition.
It was demanded of this art dealer whose name is
Burget I believe. Oh yeah, I got to know who's
buying the art. Well, okay, dude, if you want, all right,
I'll tell you. Hunter Biden wanted to know who was
purchasing his art when he first starts with you. Yeah,
(04:00):
that was the initial contract. Correct. So, and here's where
it gets great. So when you're seeing in the press
this is the question obviously that the White House is
putting in certain safeguards regarding an ethics agreement. But you've
had no conversations about it with the White House. I mean,
did you ever say to Hunter Biden, hey, where's this
coming from? This is in the press saying the White
(04:21):
House is involved in this ethics agreement. They're not even
involved in the agreement at all. I might have said that, Yeah,
I probably did. Do you remember what he said to you?
I don't. I remember I do remember being surprised. Why
were you surprised? Well, because I hadn't had any communication
with the White House about an agreement and the question
(04:42):
and so I'm trying to understand what you're surprised about
when the White House is putting out this statement that
they're working with Hunter Biden and the Galeries regarding an
ethics agreement, and you've never had a conversation with the
White House or counsels, never had a conversation with the
White House. Correct, Well, yeah, that surprised me. Well did
you ever see a statement from the White House or
did you just see the press report about what the
press was saying? The White House said, I just saw
(05:04):
the press reports, I think.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
So he's following the news and seeing all this stuff
about their the White House is working very hard to
put up walls between the buyers and Hunter Biden's art
to make sure no Shenanigan's happen or anything like that,
and he's thinking, what nobody's.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
The hell are they talking about? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Question, Well, do you have any reason to believe the
press reports are incorrect?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Well? They were incorrect, he says. He's like, how are
they incorrect?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
There was no agreement. That's how they're incorrect. So back
to the question. Answer, based upon my math, just to
Kevin Morris. Kevin Morris is the sugar brother, and I've
got quotes from him and the WAPO that are hilarious.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
With the tight purple suits and the slick back hair.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
That guy, yeah, yeah, the party boy and the heavy
duty Democrat donor. Based on my math, just to Kevin
Morris and the Elizabeth knoff Tali she's another big Democratic
donor who got a plumb position in the Biden administration
after buying one of Hunter's paintings.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Surely just a coincidence anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
So based upon my math, just the Kevin Morris and
Elizabeth Neftally purchases total sixty four percent of the total
money that's been spent on Hunter Biden's art. Correct, Okay,
so we can say, and if you add in Bill Jacques,
it's approximately seventy percent. So despite this agreement that's been
set up, seventy percent of the art that's been purchased,
(06:29):
Hunter Biden knows the buyer based on my calculations. So
my question to you is that's okay, then that's not
terribly consequential. Let's skip ahead. So Kevin Morris just paid
you the forty percent of the eight hundred and seventy
five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Correct, you gave you a check.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Normally he would pay eight hundred and seventy five thousand
dollars to the gallery and then you would give sixty
percent of the artist.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Correct. Have you ever done that before?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
The arrangement that happened where you got paid directly the
forty percent from the purchaser. Has that ever happened before?
What he's explaining or getting at is, when you buy
a piece of art from a gallery, you pay the gallery,
then the gallery pays the artist. But in this case,
the purchaser wrote a check to the gallery for their
cut and then paid the artist directly, which never happens. No,
(07:21):
So not only was it strictly anonymous, not that everybody
knew precisely who is buying one and who is exchanging money,
and they exchanged it directly in a way that never
happens in the art world. Has that ever happened before?
Not that I can recall. I'm a collector. I don't
(07:43):
want to ruin the relationship with the artists that they
have with the gallery.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
So a question.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
If you don't know the sixty percent of the eight
seventy five hunter Biden never got paid that you don't
know if he did or didn't. I don't know, you
don't know. But in this experience, is the only time
this has happened with you, this kind of payment. I
can recall, Oh, we're making putting up a high ethical wall.
And it goes on and goes into this chicknth tally
(08:09):
you got the plumb position in the Biden administration after
buying the art. But I think you get the idea
everybody knew who she was, direct payments, etcetera.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Sir, can you imagine if this had been Eric Trump
the artist and selling it for millions of dollars and
no barrier between the Trump family and who's buying it,
and somebody got a job in the White.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
House all that sort of stuff. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
And then the one final note is they really drive
home that this woman had never been to the gallery,
never talked to this guy, never bought an art, nothing
totally unknown.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Then as soon.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
As Joe Biden wins the presidency, she shows up with
her checkbook and wants to spend six figures on art.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
This art, this specific art, but.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
There was a high ethical wall bill.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
It's money laundering. Good more, it's so amazingly transparent.
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