(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) A leftist donor who purchased some of Hunter Biden’s art work has secured a lucrative position for herself in the Biden administration, the Daily Mail reported.
As a reward for her patronage of President Joe Biden’s drug-addict son, Los Angeles real-estate mogul Elizabeth Hirsch Naftali was granted a cushy spot at the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, the White House announced earlier this month.
Naftali also has visited the White House over a dozen times since December 2021 according to visitor logs.
Biden, who has famously struggled sex and drug addictions, undertook the legally sanctioned but still ethically dubious hobby of selling his artwork after public attention to his previous influence-peddling schemes forced him to resign from his lucrative board positions at companies like Ukraine’s Burisma and China’s CEFC.
Despite losing millions of dollars in bribe kickbacks, the sales of his paintings—at anywhere from $75,000 to $500,000 apiece—has allowed him to maintain his lavish lifestyle, including a mansion in Malibu that taxpayers also may be helping the 53-year-old to subsidize in part.
Hunter’s turn to art left many Republicans skeptical, especially given the clientele to whom he sells his artwork.
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., mocked the President’s son for using his art as a get-rich-quick scheme.
“Let’s call the Hunter Biden art scam what it is: bribes for the Biden family, approved by the president,” Cotton wrote after it was revealed that Naftali was a major purchaser of the younger Biden’s work.
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., chimed in, noting that this was likely just the tip of the iceberg.
“Corruption at every turn with this administration,” he wrote. “It makes you wonder, what else is going on?”
This was not the first time that Hunter’s artistic talents have come into question.
In 2021, then-White House press secretary Jen Psaki noted that Hunter would be allowed “to pursue an artistic career” within “reasonable safeguards.”
Biden’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, claimed that there was no corruption because Biden recieved market-value payments for his art sales.
“The gallery sets the pricing and handles all sales based on the highest ethical standards of the industry and does not disclose the names of any purchasers to Mr. Biden,” Lowell claimed at the time.
