The right wants to investigate him and also accuses his paintings, while the “Haiku” exhibition opens in New York. The Washington Post: Some of his lawyers now advise a more direct approach to telling his story and suing enemies for defamation
From our correspondent in New York
Hunter Biden has a new exhibit in SoHo. His name is Haiku. The paintings cost 65 thousand dollars, some canvases reach 200 thousand. They represent plants and trees (growth), a snake (rebirth), at the foot of a tree there is a wolf (“hunter” means hunter). A whole new series of flowering plants is made with ink on metal plates (strength and fragility): the colors are applied and washed off and then reapplied. On the back of one of the paintings is a haiku composed by Hunter himself:
Atoms bloom in my chest
All the room is filled it is full
I can see all the colors.
Atoms bloom in my chest
The whole room is filled is full
I can see all colors.
Hunter Biden would like to reinvent himself with paint, but Republicans have promised to investigate the president’s son for corruption when they take control of the House in January. Even the paintings are under accusation. Who is buying them? James Comer, a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, asked last year in a formal request to the gallery owner, suspecting that anyone who does so (the buyers remain anonymous) may want to influence the White House. Kentuky MP Comer explains that the goal is to investigate President Biden through his son.
In front of the gallery
In front of the Georges Bergès Gallery, a journalist from the New York Post, the tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch, has been lurking for days. On Thursday evening he managed to intercept Hunter Biden before the opening of the exhibition: he had his son Beau in his arms, and invited the journalist to enter after putting the phone away. Hunter avoided answering when asked “how much money has his father, President Biden, made thanks to his business in China and Ukraine”. Hunter urged the reporter to keep in mind that he too has a family when he was writing the piece. The New York Post is the tabloid that received Hunter Biden’s laptop and found in it allegedly incriminating emails about Hunter’s business in Ukraine and China using Dad’s name. Is this direct approach towards the most critical newspaper reporter perhaps an indication of a change of strategy? Also a few days ago, during the state dinner with Emmanuel Macron, Hunter Biden approached House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and greeted his mother (McCarthy indicated “Hunter Biden” among the dozen priorities of the Republican investigation l ‘next year).
New strategy
In September, writes the Washington Post, friend and lawyer Kevin Morris – a Hollywood writer and lawyer who has worked with celebrities such as the creators of the South Park cartoon – suggested just this: the team of the president’s son must present his narrative, defend himself more decisively, even with libel suits against critics, such as Fox News, Eric Trump, and Rudy Giuliani (the former president’s son and ex-lawyer, respectively). But not all allies of Joe Biden and his son are convinced: some think it is better for Hunter to keep a lower profile, because the message that the White House wants to give is a private citizen and the conspiracies against him are unfounded and they simply draw attention away from the real problems of the country. Last night in Washington, DC, at an event celebrating George Clooney and other Kennedy Center honorees, two reporters approached Hunter. One asked his opinion on the files released by Elon Musk to reconstruct how Twitter blocked the piece of the New York Post on Hunter, the other asked him about the investigation promised by the House against him. The 52-year-old smiled and walked away without answering.
The federal investigation
After the election, Hunter Biden also revealed that the Delaware prosecutor’s office is investigating his taxes and possible violations of money laundering laws. Last October 6th the Washington Post wrote that the federal agents conducting the investigation believe they have gathered enough evidence for an indictment. Hunter has repaid a million dollars in tax evasion, thanks to a loan from his lawyer and friend Morris: the crime is committed but this could guarantee him less severe treatment. Investigators also have a document showing Hunter Biden lied when he bought a gun: He was asked if he was a user of illegal substances and said no. When the news broke, a lawyer for the president’s son accused the investigators of divulging classified information, “a federal crime.”
And witness
Hunter’s team conducted research on two witnesses that Republicans could call to the House: former business partner Tony Bobulisnki and computer technician John Paul Mac Isaac to whom Hunter allegedly left his laptop which ended up in the hands of the New York Post. Hunter said he regretted joining the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company, in the years when Joe Biden was Obama’s deputy, but only because it allowed Trump to attack him and his father. “Where’s Hunter?” the former president always asked. “Trump believed that if he destroyed me, and by extension my father, he could draw his attention away from his own corrupt behavior,” Hunter wrote in his autobiography. Beautiful things (Solferino), in which he recounts the loss of his brother and his own problems with drugs and alcohol. The Washington Post wrote in March that the CEFC China Energy conglomerate and its managers paid $4.8 million over 14 months to entities controlled by Hunter and his uncle James, but found no evidence that Joe Biden benefited personally. Bobulisky said an earlier deal could have involved Joe Biden but it never materialized. The president denied ever discussing business matters with his son.
December 10, 2022 (change December 10, 2022 | 21:25)
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