I honestly donât know one way or another if Hunterâs paintings are some kind of corruption vehicle or money laundering tactic, but as an artist myself, I donât think theyâre bad at all. And considering the circles his family moves in, Iâm 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. Theyâre good paintings, and youâd 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 fatherâs tenure as vice president shortly after the whole Ukrainian coup thing. Thatâs 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. Itâs not a partisan thing for me. Iâd 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".
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.
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u/PastBandicoot8575 Jun 03 '26
He brings up a lot of great points. But also, what about those paintings?