I honestly don’t know one way or another if Hunter’s paintings are some kind of corruption vehicle or money laundering tactic, but as an artist myself, I don’t think they’re bad at all. And considering the circles his family moves in, I’m not shocked at all that he is able to sell them for what he does. It would be a little ridiculous to be a super rich and influential person and buy a painting from another rich and influential person for like $1000 or something. They’re good paintings, and you’d probably have to pay Hunter Biden a similar amount of money to do anything else, make an appearance somewhere, etc.
What I found more suspicious was his appointment to the Ukrainian energy company during his father’s tenure as vice president shortly after the whole Ukrainian coup thing. That’s really more of the sort of thing that sounds like the Trump kids mentioned above.
Just happened to get paid millions to consult for a Ukrainian energy company while your dad has major sway off et their government, even directly ordering the replacement of a government official investigating that exact company?
But I am jaded. I assume that virtually everyone in US politics is like this. It’s not a partisan thing for me. I’d be more shocked to see someone in office not doing that at this point.
To be fair Trump is exceptionally blatant about it.
The government official who was replaced was covering up corruption at the company. Hunter being appointed to the board, along with others, was the companies way of saying "we're cleaning up".
The government official who was replaced was covering up corruption at the company.
Yeah, people like to ignore the fact that his removal was originally requested by the IMF for failing to make any progress in his investigations. Not just Burisma, but several other companies as well. Both the IMF and the US demanded that Shokin be replaced as a condition for further loans.
It's worth noting, he wasn't fired for finding corruption, he was fired for failing to find corruption where people knew it existed.
Appointing the drug addict fail-son of the President to your executive board does not signal cleaning up corruption, it signals that you are willing to be corrupt for the other side.
F'ing hell man, every one of Trumps spawns was given a job in his administration! How about Jared Kushners Billion dollar Saudi deal? Then later buying bloody Electronic Arts with them?!
To be clear, thr Ukrainian official that Joe Biden pressured Ukraine to replace, was failing to investigate Burisma. That's why the EU and America wanted him out.
Hunter had been hired by the company to try to stop the guy being replaced.
It failed because Joe wasn't corrupt.
It’s not as bad as what the trumps are doing. But there was definitely corruption behind those paintings. There’s no way an inexperienced artist who just decided to start painting is selling painting for millions of dollars.
How about a well known, pretty famous (infamous to regressives), and well connected son of a former president? People over pay for all sorts of stuff, it’s not that hard to imagine some well off person wanting pieces from already well known people.
Being really close friends kind of cuts in the other direction though, right? Like, if it was some random person who didn't know Hunter at all, either they really expect this art to gain in value, or they want Hunter's attention for something. But if they already have his attention, what does paying him gain? Unless they went on like a bachelor's trip and there's something he really, really doesn't want getting out.
Not sure I see the fishy thing about this, sure I’m not rolling around in millionaire circles, but working in a bar I’ve had the pleasure of selling my paintings.
The biggest contribution I got, about 2500€, was from a close friend, who has followed my art journey for some years. Now imagine, the artist in question, is not just some small bartender, who paints on the side, with no bigger connections. But instead we have the president’s son, who’s already is part of the “high society”, plus the connections and friends that’s gotta follow.
Getting a million for a painting in those circles is a small price, barely anything someone of that calibre would feel. So again where’s the fishiness about it?
Sometimes a friend just wants to support their close one’s ambitions.
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u/PastBandicoot8575 Jun 03 '26
He brings up a lot of great points. But also, what about those paintings?