{"id":586135,"date":"2021-07-08T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=586135"},"modified":"2021-07-08T12:51:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T16:51:01","slug":"white-house-wants-maximum-secrecy-for-hunter-biden-art-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-wants-maximum-secrecy-for-hunter-biden-art-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Wants Maximum Secrecy for Hunter Biden Art Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fwhite-house-wants-maximum-secrecy-for-hunter-biden-art-deal%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=586135&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hunter-Biden-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The White House is negotiating a deal that would shield the identities of anyone who purchases Hunter Biden&#8217;s artwork due to concerns that transparency would reduce interest from potential buyers, according to the <em>Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is set to market his abstract paintings in the fall for prices between $75,000 and $500,000, drawing concern from ethics experts, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/hunter-biden-art-sales-raise-alarm-with-ethics-watchdogs\/\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;last month. Government watchdogs have noted that foreign nationals or lobbyists could buy the high-priced art in order to gain influence with the White House and have urged the Biden administration to publicly release the names of any buyers.<\/p>\n<p>But under an agreement that White House officials negotiated with Hunter Biden&#8217;s art dealer, the names of buyers and bidders &#8220;will be kept confidential from even the artist himself, in an attempt to avoid ethical issues that could arise,&#8221; the <em>Post<\/em> reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials who helped negotiate the deal reportedly told the paper that &#8220;if buyers were publicly disclosed it would restrict interest, because the identities of most art purchasers are not automatically made public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s dealer, New York gallery owner Georges Berg\u00e8s, has also &#8220;agreed to reject any offer that he deems suspicious or that comes in over the asking price,&#8221; reported the <em>Post<\/em>, citing sources familiar with the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Several art world insiders questioned the steep asking prices for Biden&#8217;s artwork, with one critic describing it as &#8220;somewhere between a screen saver and if you just Googled \u2018midcentury abstraction&#8217; and mashed up whatever came up.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House is negotiating a deal that would shield the identities of anyone who purchases Hunter Biden&#8217;s artwork due to concerns that transparency would reduce interest from potential buyers, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2314260,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hunter-Biden-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"White House Wants Maximum Secrecy for Hunter Biden Art Deal","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Hunter-Biden-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"White House Wants Maximum Secrecy for Hunter Biden Art Deal","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}