The Post previously reported that Hunter sold five prints for $75,000 each - totaling $375,000 - at an October 2021 Hollywood art show that controversially was attended then-LA Mayor Eric Garcetti, who at the time was President Biden’s embattled nominee to be ambassador to India. Hunter Biden has sold at least $1.3 million in art as of this past July, according to Business Insider. It was not immediately clear if Bergès comprehensively provided buyer information after previously refusing to do so.īergès also told committee members during the closed-door deposition that Hollywood producer Lanette Phillips, who has hosted fundraisers for the elder Biden, introduced Hunter to Bergès. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre referred questions to the White House counsel’s office during her regular briefing.ģ Bergès said that Hunter, 53, actually knew who bought about 70% of his art, including Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali. The White House did not immediately offer comment on Bergès’ testimony. “The White House has a lot of explaining to do about misleading the American people.”

“The vast majority of Hunter Biden’s art has been purchased by Democrat donors, one of whom was appointed by President Biden to a prestigious commission after she purchased Hunter Biden’s art for tens of thousands of dollars shortly after Joe Biden’s inauguration,” Comer added. “Hunter Biden’s gallerist never had any communication with the White House about such an agreement to make sure there was any sort of ethics compliance at all, and he provided information to the committee revealing how Hunter Biden’s amateur art career is an ethics nightmare. “The Biden White House appears to have deceived the American people about facilitating an ethics agreement governing the sale of Hunter Biden’s art,” Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said in a statement. Hirsh Naftali, who scored repeated visits to the White House during the timeframe in question, inked a $42,000 sale in February 2021, before her appointment that July by Joe Biden to the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, and then another for $52,000 in December 2022.īergès also confirmed that the first son was aware that Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris, who met Hunter at a political fundraiser in December 2019 before bankrolling his tax payments and living expenses, was his top patron, buying $875,000 worth of art in a January 2023 deal.ģ First son Hunter Biden’s Manhattan art dealer Georges Bergès shared details Tuesday about purchasers of the first son’s novice works. The high-stakes testimony came as the Oversight Committee spearheads an impeachment inquiry into whether the elder Biden was corruptly involved with his son and brother James’s foreign ventures while vice president.

The art dealer testified that Hunter, 53, knew who bought about 70% of his art - including Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali, who obtained works by the first son before and after scoring a prestigious presidential appointment.īergès disclosed that he personally interacted with Joe Biden on multiple occasions, including at a closed-to-press White House wedding for Hunter’s daughter Naomi in 2022. Georges Bergès also revealed that in addition to the lack of supposed anti-corruption safeguards he actually met and spoke on the phone with the president while repping his son, the House Oversight Committee said in a readout of a closed-door deposition. WASHINGTON - Hunter Biden’s Manhattan art dealer said Tuesday that he never worked with the White House on an ethics pact to ensure buyers would remain anonymous - and added that the top purchasers were known to the first son, contrary to prior claims from President Biden’s aides. Wake up, libs: Hunter Biden’s stunt didn’t ‘own’ the GOP. Republicans warn Hunter Biden no more ‘stunts’ after he offers deposition, say contempt vote ‘will move forward’ Jim Jordan embroiled in new standoff with feds over Biden ‘$10M bribe’ file that may contain ‘crucial’ info

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