By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted yesterday at 7:48pm, updated yesterday at 7:56pm
Hunter Biden, left, and his father, President Joe Biden, and their respective wives at the Kennedy Awards in Washington, December 4, 2022. SAUL LOEB / AFP
The former businessman-turned-artist, the second son of the President of the United States, is suspected by Republicans that industrialists or financiers are buying his works just to win favor in the White House.
Paintings by Joe Biden’s son, a former businessman-turned-artist, were the focus of a House investigation by Republicans on Wednesday who accuse the family of “trading with their contacts and influence.”
The chairman of a powerful House committee has written to a New York gallery that exhibits Hunter Biden’s work, demanding that it provide Congress with a list of buyers of his work.
“Your deal with Hunter Biden raises serious ethical questions and raises questions about whether the Biden family is trading again with their contacts and influence,” Republican James Comer said in the letter.
He also invites the gallery’s owner, Georges Bergès, to testify before Congress in February. Hunter Biden is one of the favorite targets of the Republican camp, which, with its new majority in the House of Representatives, has promised to launch a series of investigations into the Democratic president.
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“It’s definitely not a Picasso”
In particular, Republicans point to the danger of industrialists or financiers buying his works simply to curry favor with the White House.
According to James Comer, some of the paintings exhibited by New York’s Georges Bergès gallery cost as much as $225,000. “Who would pay large sums for works by Hunter Biden that are a priori worthless? It’s certainly not a Picasso,” the conservative-elect said on Twitter.
When asked by AFP, the gallery did not immediately comment. In the past few days, she had been promoting Hunter Biden acrylic paints on these social networks. You are still on the gallery account.
The Biden administration, which wants to present itself as ethical, has been repeatedly asked about the artistic career of the son of former lawyer and businessman Joe Biden.
The President’s youngest son was regularly criticized for having economic interests in Ukraine and China when his father was Vice President of Barack Obama (2009-2017).