{"id":1444540,"date":"2022-04-18T16:44:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T20:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1444540"},"modified":"2022-04-18T16:44:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T20:44:46","slug":"twelve-months-after-publication-hunter-bidens-memoir-remains-a-complete-sales-dud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twelve-months-after-publication-hunter-bidens-memoir-remains-a-complete-sales-dud\/","title":{"rendered":"TWELVE MONTHS After Publication, Hunter Biden\u2019s Memoir Remains A COMPLETE Sales Dud"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwelve-months-after-publication-hunter-bidens-memoir-remains-a-complete-sales-dud%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1444540&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/01\/Joe-Biden-Hunter.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Hunter Biden is a supposed energy expert, extraordinary businessman, aspiring artist, attorney, and \u2014 according to his father, President Joe Biden \u2014 the \u201csmartest guy\u201d he knows. If all that were even remotely true, then book sales for Hunter\u2019s memoir, \u201cBeautiful Things\u201d (Gallery Books, April 2021), indicate that he might be the most under-appreciated Renaissance man in American history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to book sales figures obtained by The Daily Wire, Biden has sold roughly 27,000 books. Biden was allegedly given a $2 million payment for the book by his publishers and appeared on national shows like \u201cThe Jimmy Kimmel Show\u201d and CBS\u2019s \u201cSunday Morning\u201d to promote it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For context, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/news\/hunter-biden-book-tanks-ekes-out-just-over-10000-first-week-sales-despite-massive-promotion\/\">noted<\/a> by Mediaite, during the book\u2019s launch week, \u201cBiden\u2019s tome \u2018<\/span><span>Beautiful Things\u2019<\/span><span>\u00a0moved a total of 10,638 copies in its first week.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Those numbers were underwhelming and those sales were \u201cquadrupled by no. 1 best seller Amanda Gorman.\u201d That means a poet who performed at his dad\u2019s inauguration sold more books in one week than Hunter\u2019s \u201cBeautiful Things\u201d has ever sold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>So how can the \u201csmartest guy\u201d whom the president knows fail to sell what must be a fascinating story about a supposedly brilliant thinker?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Well, as<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/04\/03\/hunter-biden-whitewashes-just-about-everything-in-new-tell-all\/\"><span>one review in the New York Post<\/span><\/a><span> put it, \u201cHunter Biden\u2019s memoir \u2014 to the shame of an adoring media \u2014 is nothing more than a political fairy tale.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSure, there are pages upon pages of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/article\/inside-the-life-of-hunter-biden-joe-bidens-scandal-plagued-son\/\"><span>Hunter smoking crack<\/span><\/a><span> and cycling through rehabs,\u201d Post reviewer Maureen Callahan wrote, in reference to Hunter\u2019s narcotics addiction which led to him being discharged from the Navy due to his cocaine habit, \u201cbut the really interesting stuff is what he has explained away or left out entirely \u2014 worth revisiting here, not least because<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/12\/10\/how-media-covered-up-the-hunter-biden-story-until-after-the-election\/\"><span>the national media<\/span><\/a><span> is lapping up this trite and clich\u00e9d redemption narrative without, as President Biden\u2019s pal and former boss Barack Obama might say, \u2018checking under the hood and kicking the tires.&#8217;\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Amongst the missing stories is the truth surrounding how he reportedly became a millionaire based on apparent business deals with Chinese elites that Biden acquired purely because of his last name.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Daily Wire has<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/joe-bidens-son-hunter-and-other-family-members-have-made-31-million-off-chinese-elites-author-says\"><span>previously reported<\/span><\/a><span> that, according to investigative author Peter Schweizer, Hunter and other Biden family members have made more than $31 million in business deals with businessmen tied to the Chinese Communist Party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A recent report from The Daily Wire also<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-criminal-investigation-into-hunter-biden-is-heating-up-heres-what-you-need-to-know\"><span>added<\/span><\/a><span> that, in connection to said deals, the federal government\u2019s criminal investigation into Hunter has been \u201cgaining steam.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Daily Wire<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-criminal-investigation-into-hunter-biden-is-heating-up-heres-what-you-need-to-know\"><span>noted<\/span><\/a><span> that in 2018, the Department of Justice launched a criminal investigation into Hunter that centered on potential money laundering, tax fraud, the violation of foreign lobbying laws, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At the center of the investigation was whether or not Hunter used his father\u2019s position in the U.S. government over the last decade to secure millions of dollars in fraudulent overseas business deals. Evidence appears to show Hunter flaunted access to his father as a means of securing meetings and permits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Yet Hunter generally avoids discussing any potentially illegal business activities in his memoir.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When he does discuss criticism of his overseas dealings \u2014 such as the lucrative position with the Ukrainian energy company, Burisma \u2014 Hunter glosses over former President Donald J. Trump\u2019s criticisms as \u201cthe decade\u2019s biggest political fable . . . most remarkable for its epic banality,\u201d The Washington Post<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/hunter-biden-memoir-review-beautiful-things\/2021\/03\/31\/a2298cd0-8e60-11eb-a6bd-0eb91c03305a_story.html\"> <span>noted<\/span><\/a><span> in a nauseating review.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As for Hunter\u2019s infamous \u201claptop from hell\u201d \u2014 the computer<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/deeply-corrupt-and-a-congenital-liar-an-exclusive-interview-with-the-woman-who-reviewed-hunter-bidens-laptop-firsthand\"><span>reportedly<\/span><\/a><span> abandoned by Hunter at a Delaware computer repair shop that reportedly contains thousands of incriminating photos, files, and emails \u2014 in April 2021, during his book tour, Biden\u2019s youngest son claimed that he had no idea if it was actually his or not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThere could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me,\u201d Hunter<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9445105\/What-Hunter-Biden-left-tell-memoir-revealed.html\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> on CBS\u2019s Sunday Morning. \u201cIt could be that I was hacked. It could be that it was the \u2014 that it was Russian intelligence. It could be that it was stolen from me or that there was a laptop stolen from me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Recently, even the<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3qnP2JXn-Fc\"><span>mainstream media<\/span><\/a><span> had to confess that the laptop in question actually <\/span><i><span>did<\/span><\/i><span> belong to the failed author. The contents of that laptop potentially implicate the president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As the RNC\u2019s Ronna McDaniel<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hunter-biden-and-the-big-guy-are-in-real-trouble\"><span>recently said<\/span><\/a><span> in an opinion column for The Daily Wire, what that laptop shows is that \u201cJoe Biden\u2019s son used his father\u2019s influence to make money with dictators while he was sharing a bank account with the former Vice President and future President.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Based on texts and emails from that device, Hunter also apparently paid some of his father\u2019s bills and provided the current president a certain percentage of deals with overseas business partners. It seems the only way the truth will be revealed is through federal prosecution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Despite the poor book sales, Hunter\u2019s other career as an artist appears to be going quite swimmingly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He has<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/07\/hunter-biden-sells-five-prints-for-75k-each-as-nyc-show-pushed-back\/\"><span>reportedly sold<\/span><\/a><span> at least five pieces for $75,000 and one work for half a million. If that sounds sketchy to you, consider that the father\u2019s White House has also<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/uh-oh-hunter-white-house-issues-report-warning-against-money-laundering-in-the-art-sale-business\"><span>issued an official warning<\/span><\/a><span> about potential illicit actors about the dangers of making a living in the money laundering business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The art industry is ripe for money laundering and fraud, according to the Biden administration. International buyers, potentially seeking to influence the president, could theoretically buy one of his son\u2019s art pieces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Fear not, the White House has assured the American people that Hunter\u2019s sales have zero impact on the president\u2019s policies as the buyers<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-admin-helps-hunter-biden-craft-deal-where-buyers-of-his-expensive-art-will-be-kept-secret-report\"><span>remain secret<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>To that extent, just keep in mind these are the same people who stated Hunter\u2019s laptop was Russian disinformation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Since it doesn\u2019t seem like selling physical copies of his books is taking off anytime soon, perhaps Hunter\u2019s next venture will be in the digital art business. He can upload \u201cBeautiful Things\u201d online and auction it off to the highest bidder as an NFT.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>All that being said, Hunter, of course, is not a Renaissance man. It does appear, however, that he knows how to make a pretty penny for himself based on his last name.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same?<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"> <i><span>Become a member now and join our mission.<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunter Biden is a supposed energy expert, extraordinary businessman, aspiring artist, attorney, and \u2014 according to his father, President Joe Biden \u2014 the \u201csmartest guy\u201d he knows. 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