So, with help from James Clyburn, Biden it was; the most hapless, moronic and corrupt man to hold office for fifty years in Congress. His reward for being exactly that, moronic and corrupt, was to fail upward, to be illegitimately installed as President.
What is there to be said about Jill Biden?
What is the ultimate verdict on a woman like not-a-real-doctor Jill Biden? She has for at least four years now, with help from the malevolent left, been a willing party to the installation of her brain-addled husband into the Oval Office.
KJP on Joe Biden Not Acknowledging His Seventh Grandchild: ‘I Don’t Have Anything to Share’
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Wednesday said she did not “have anything to share” when asked whether President Joe Biden considered Hunter Biden’s daughter with former stripper Lunden Roberts one of his grandchildren.
During a press briefing, a reporter asked about a recent New York Times story that profiled Hunter Biden’s relationship with Roberts.
“There was a story in the New York Times about Hunter Biden’s daughter in Arkansas. Does the president acknowledge this little girl as his granddaughter?” the Wall Street Journal reporter asked.
“I don’t have anything to share from here,” Jean-Pierre said.
WSJ's @Catherine_Lucey: "There was a story in the NYT over the weekend about Hunter Biden's daughter in Arkansas. Does the President acknowledge this little girl as his granddaughter?"
KJP: "I don't have anything to share from here." pic.twitter.com/ck8PuaOBht
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 5, 2023
The report said President Biden’s aides were reportedly instructed to ignore Hunter Biden’s estranged daughter when numbering his grandchildren. The report said:
His public image is centered around his devotion to his family — including to Hunter, his only surviving son. In strategy meetings in recent years, aides have been told that the Bidens have six, not seven, grandchildren, according to two people familiar with the discussions.
The in-depth report in the New York Times profiled Hunter Biden’s former lover and her quest to reach a child support settlement for their daughter, Navy Joan.
The report confirmed the pair’s daughter will not be taking the Biden surname, which Hunter’s legal team requested, and also confirmed that Roberts will be taking some of Hunter’s paintings as part of the settlement.
The question at the briefing came after the White House did not respond to questions from the Times.
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Suddenly, Hunter Biden’s ‘Love Child’ is News
A sprawling reality show of degeneracy.
In the July 2 New York Times Sunday paper, they suddenly decided to put the story of Hunter Biden’s controversial 4-year-old daughter on the bottom of the front page.
The bizarre headline on a Katie Rogers piece: “Hunter Biden and the Politics of Paternity in the Media’s Glare.” There has been almost no media glare, at least inside the Democrat media bubble. They lament the story’s “ubiquity” in conservative media.
The occasion for this sudden acknowledgment of reality was a child support settlement after a “yearslong court battle” — outside the media glare. Try finding any mention of the mother, Lunden Roberts, or the child, Navy Joan Roberts, in any “mainstream” media source. Searching for “Lunden Roberts” on the Times website gives you three results, two of them from articles posted in the last few days. The name “Lunden Roberts” doesn’t appear until six paragraphs into the article, and only five paragraphs were on the front page.
Roberts gave up her demand that her little girl Navy Joan have the Biden last name, and the Biden camp agreed to turn over a number of art pieces from Hunter’s “second career as a painter whose pieces have been offered for as much as $500,000 each.” This verbiage, apparently, is supposed to signal Biden generosity and not Biden corruption.
The Times mourned that this was too political: “Both Hunter Biden, the privileged and troubled son of a president, and Ms. Roberts, the daughter of a rural gun maker, have allies whose actions have made the situation more politicized. There is no evidence the White House is involved in those actions.”
It’s beyond ludicrous to assume that the Bidens aren’t involved in the politics of Hunter’s messes. But of course, “Democratic groups dedicated to helping the Biden family have disseminated information about Mr. (Garrett) Ziegler and the Roberts family, seeking to highlight their Trump ties.”
Liberal journalists should acknowledge it’s natural that people wronged by the Bidens would be welcomed by the conservative media, just as Trump-haters (like angry niece Mary Trump) would be celebrated by the liberal media.
This line about President Joe Biden was the worst: “His public image is centered around his devotion to his family — including to Hunter, his only surviving son. In strategy meetings in recent years, aides have been told that the Bidens have six, not seven, grandchildren, according to two people familiar with the discussions.”
So there’s “no evidence” this is being politicized, but the “devoted” grandpa’s team will deny the existence of a seventh grandchild. That’s cold.
The Times also aggressively downplayed the “stripper love child” tones. Rogers reported that Roberts “moved to Washington to study forensic investigation at George Washington University” and “(a)long the way, she met the son of a future president who was sliding into addiction and visiting Washington strip clubs.”
Rogers quoted ex-GOP strategist Stuart Stevens to represent the viewpoint of journalists up until now, that focusing on the dissolute son is “just anger in search of an argument.” Then she turned to pollster Frank Luntz to claim it’s a “waste of time” for Republicans to focus on Biden family scandals instead of issues like inflation. Earth to Luntz: Did the liberal media skip Trump scandals to focus on the issues? The issues were always sublimated to scandal.
Liberals want to protect Joe Biden’s image as a “devoted family man,” no matter how false it is, insisting Republicans shouldn’t try to focus on what’s blatantly obvious. The Biden family is a sprawling reality show of misbehavior, like the Kennedys. And just like the Kennedys, the newspapers who boast they are the bold guardians of “truth” are exposed as hardened partisan operatives.
Hunter Biden to Use Shady Art Market for Child Support Payment
Hunter Biden’s finalized paternity agreement with Lunden Roberts specifies the use of the first son’s paintings as a means to pay at least some of his child support.
Hunter Biden’s paternity agreement states:
Defendant additionally agrees that he shall assign to the child [redacted] of his paintings over the next [redacted] which shall vary in size with a minimum size of 24×24. The child shall select the painting which shall either be sent to the child or sent to a gallery designated by Lunden Roberts. The net proceeds of any sales of paintings shall be wired to an account designated by Lunden Roberts.
Hunter Biden (L) and Lunden Roberts (R) (ABC News, Facebook/Lunden Roberts)
The art industry is known for shady business transactions. A Senate subcommittee report detailed in 2020 how the art market serves as a vehicle for money laundering:
The art industry is considered the largest, legal unregulated industry in the United States. Unlike financial institutions, the art industry is not subject to Bank Secrecy Act’s (“BSA”) requirements, which mandate detailed procedures to prevent money laundering and to verify a customer’s identity. While the BSA does not apply to art transactions by art dealers and auction houses, sanctions do. No U.S. person or entity is allowed to do business with a sanctioned individual or entity.
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While the art market is not regulated by the BSA, it is governed by unwritten rules. A large number of art sales happen through intermediaries referred to as “art advisors” who can represent both purchasers and sellers. In a typical transaction, a purchaser may not ask who owns the piece of art they are purchasing; the seller may not ask for whom it is being purchased or the origin of the money. And in general an art advisor would be reluctant to reveal the identity of their client for fear of being cut out of the deal and losing the business.
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Because the art industry is not subject to BSA requirements, when a piece of art is sold, there is no legal requirement for the selling party to confirm the identity of the buyer or that the buyer is not laundering money through the purchase. While the four biggest auction houses have voluntary anti-money laundering (“AML”) programs, the employees who facilitated art purchases in the Subcommittee’s case study said they never asked the art advisor the identity of his client. Instead, the auction houses considered the art advisor the principal purchaser and performed any due diligence on the art advisor, even when it was well-known that the ultimate owner was someone else. With regard to the funds used to purchase art, the auction houses told the Subcommittee they rely on financial institutions to ensure the integrity of the funds, even though the auction houses interact directly with the buyer. But these voluntary AML policies are just for sales through the auction houses. As stated above, the majority of art sales are private transactions. A private dealer interviewed by the Subcommittee stated she had no written AML policies, tries to work with people she knows and trusts, looks for red flags, and relies on her gut. She also explained that her practices have significantly changed over the years and that she also relies on advice from AML lawyers.
Secrecy, anonymity, and a lack of regulation create an environment ripe for laundering money and evading sanctions.
Adam Thompson, a prominent artist from Miami, told Breitbart News that Hunter Biden is trying to cash in on his infamous, scandal-ridden history by using an unregulated market. Without such notoriety in a shady industry, Hunter Biden’s art would be worth nearly nothing and his daughter would receive a raw deal.
“Scandal on this level is great for the value of an artist’s work,” he said. “But if a regular person were to sell Hunter Biden’s form of art, they would never be able to command the outrageous dollar amounts the pieces generated without the Biden last name.”
In total, Hunter Biden anonymously sold about 12 paintings for less than $500,000, the Washington Post reported. It is unclear how much money the art generated at the sale, but estimates suggest he earned at least five times more than the average American artist — all while being a novice painter.
Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.
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