Mystery Buyers Pay A Huge Price For Biden’s Otherwise Cheap Art Collection

Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, came under fire last week after reports emerged confirming that his art dealer, Georges Berges would be selling off his artwork worth somewhere between $75,000 and half a million dollars.

Biden’s pieces are selling for more than one sold by Jean-Michel Basquiat for $20,900 in 1984 – $53,770.96 in today’s dollars.

Walter Shaub, the former Office of Government Ethics director under Obama lashed out at Hunter for selling his art at ridiculously high prices to anonymous buyers.

“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,” Shaub said.

Shaub also warned that the anonymity could allow “influence-seekers” to funnel money to the Biden administration and family.

“Just as hotel charges and real estate purchases created a risk of unknown parties funneling money to the Trump family for potentially unsavory purposes, Hunter Biden’s grotesquely inflated art prices create a similar risk of influence-seekers funneling money to the Biden family,” he said.

Shaub added he thinks that Biden and Berges, “should disclose the identity of the purchasers” so the public will know if the buyers try to “gain access to [the] government.”

“But I also think it’s ridiculous that Hunter Biden is even going forward with this sale as a first-time artist,” Shaub continued. “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.”

“At a minimum, the president should be asking his son not to go through with this auction,” he said.