by Frank Holmes, reporter
The art house walls are closing in on Joe Biden.
Yet another Biden family financial scandal has broken: President Biden handed a cushy government appointment to a woman who purchased one of First Son Hunter Biden’s pricey “artworks.”
Biden appointed Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali to the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad last July… conveniently around the same time she became a Hunter Biden art collector.
Eight months after the president’s son went into the art business, Naftali moved into a new position of her own.
That seems “particularly suspicious because of Hunter Biden’s previous actions to elevate his business partner — Eric Schwerin — to the same post while his father was vice president,” said Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., who chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.
Hunter Biden has painted a masterpiece of corruption, according to investigators.
Biden officials insisted at the time that no one would buy Hunter’s paintings in order to curry favor with the sitting president, because he would be “walled off” from ever knowing who bought his work. In October 2021, then-White House spokesperson Jen Psaki reassured the country, “We still do not know and will not know who purchases any paintings”... but she couldn’t name any steps he would take to make sure of that.
Now we know the Biden administration’s ethics guidelines are a blank canvas.
Naftali had a clever way to sidestep the silence rule: She simply told Hunter she bought the painting, or paintings.
Naftali has visited the White House at least 13 times since December 2021, according to White House visitor logs.
To make matters worse, investigators have described how Naftali has a long history of trying to give more money to Democratic presidential candidates than allowed by federal law.
Naftali supported Hillary Clinton for president in 2016—in fact, she gave the maximum $2,700 donation in September 2015, forcing her out of future donations, but she came up with a solution to that.
Just 10 days later, her 17-year-old daughter gave Clinton the maximum $2,700 donation, too.
The same thing happened last presidential cycle, after Naftali maxxed out her contributions to presidential candidate and current Vice President Kamala Harris. Suddenly, her 17-year-old son got civic-minded, giving Kamala $2,000 of his allowance money. He also gave $1,000 to Rep. Mike Levin, a Democrat, at the ripe old age of 16.
Three of her kids donated to Joe Biden—and Naftali gave $200,000 to Biden’s campaign, Fox News reports.
Under federal law, minors can contribute to political campaigns—but only if they do so “knowingly and voluntarily,” and there’s little evidence that the trust-fund teenagers gave their permission.
Naftali and her kin are just the tip of a huge, corrupt iceberg. Hunter Biden has raked in $1.3 million-$1.4 million dollars in art sales, according to industry sources.
Not all of those went to Naftali, not by a longshot.
The president’s son has got a major collector on his hands: One undisclosed patron blew $875,000 buying up 11 Hunter Biden originals.
That’s an amazing salary for someone “most reviewers” say has no real talent.
“Most reviewers” say Hunter Biden’s artwork is “perfectly pleasant…but there is no sense of purpose or inherent poetry. There is no sensation of a forceful personality being focused and channeled through the artwork you are looking at, as there is with outstanding artwork,” according to a review by in the website Art in Context.
Despite this, Hunter Biden’s art dealer, George Bergès, refuses to talk to House investigators. He hopes a Democrat will soon take over and wipe the canvas clean.
Comer has insisted Natali fork over all communications she had with the art dealer, with any federal employee about the fact that she purchased the painting or paintings, and anything related to her appointment to the commission by next Friday, August 11.
He made the same demand of the president through White House Counsel Stuart Delery.
Right now, the facts are painting Joe Biden into a corner.
Already, agents have verified his son’s laptop, released the affidavit showing a foreign businessman complaining about the Bidens shaking him down for $10 million, and former business associate Devon Archer has admitted Hunter used his father as a “brand” that he could leverage in his foreign business deals.
Did Joe Biden talk about “the weather” to any of Hunter Biden’s art patrons? If so, what did the buyers want to talk about?
If Republican congressmen begin to ask those questions about Joe Biden in an impeachment hearing, color him gone.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”