{"id":586644,"date":"2021-07-08T20:50:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T00:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=586644"},"modified":"2021-07-08T20:50:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T00:50:52","slug":"obamas-ethics-chief-slams-biden-over-reported-move-to-keep-hunter-bidens-art-buyers-secret-enemies-could-use-it-against-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obamas-ethics-chief-slams-biden-over-reported-move-to-keep-hunter-bidens-art-buyers-secret-enemies-could-use-it-against-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s Ethics Chief Slams Biden Over Reported Move To Keep Hunter Biden\u2019s Art Buyers Secret: Enemies Could Use It Against Us"},"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\">42<\/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%2Fobamas-ethics-chief-slams-biden-over-reported-move-to-keep-hunter-bidens-art-buyers-secret-enemies-could-use-it-against-us%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=586644&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\/07\/Biden-7-scaled-3.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Walter Shaub, the former director of Obama\u2019s Office of Government Ethics, slammed the Biden administration on Thursday over reports that the administration had helped the president\u2019s son, Hunter Biden, craft a deal where the buyers of his \u201coutrageous[ly]\u201d priced art would be kept completely secret.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder an arrangement negotiated in recent months, a New York gallery owner is planning to set prices for the art and will withhold all records, including potential bidders and final buyers,\u201d The Washington Post&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/deal-of-the-art-white-house-grapples-with-ethics-of-hunter-bidens-pricey-paintings\/2021\/07\/07\/97e0528c-da72-11eb-9bbb-37c30dcf9363_story.html\">reported<\/a>. \u201cBiden\u2019s art sale, expected to take place this fall, comes with potential challenges. Not only has Biden previously been accused of trading in on his father\u2019s name, but his latest vocation is in a field where works do not have a tangible fixed value and where concerns have arisen about secretive buyers and undisclosed sums.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deal, according to The Washington Post, will keep the purchases secret \u201cfrom even the artist himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shaub ripped Biden last month over another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/top-obama-ethics-official-rages-bidens-actions-a-real-f-you-to-u-s-hes-a-fing-failure\">report<\/a> from The Washington Post about how the children of numerous top aides in the Biden administration had&nbsp;received \u201ccoveted jobs\u201d in the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry, I know some folks don\u2019t like hearing any criticism of him. But this royally sucks,\u201d Shaub wrote on Twitter. \u201cI\u2019m disgusted. A lot of us worked hard to tee him up to restore ethics to government and believed the promises. This is a a real \u2018f\u2014 you\u2019 to us\u2014and government ethics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response to the report about how the deal will allegedly allow Hunter Biden to sell art for up to $500,000 to essentially anonymous buyers, Shaub warned that foreign nations could use the arrangement to embarrass the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine you\u2019re a Kremlin official looking for a way to embarrass the U.S., and one day you read that the White House negotiated with a private art dealer to keep secret the names of buyers who pay outrageous sums at an upcoming auction for artwork by the president\u2019s lawyer son,\u201d Shaub wrote on Twitter. \u201cImagine you\u2019re the White House official who came up with the idea to outsource government ethics management to an art dealer, and you suddenly realize Russian oligarchs like art too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden should beg his son to stop this art sale, bringing all the pressure a father can bring to bear on a son,\u201d Shaub added. \u201cIf that fails, he should insist on disclosure of the buyers and commit to publicly releasing all records of any meeting between any government official and any of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine being a govt official who pipes up at a meeting to say \u2018darkness is the best disinfectant,&#8217;\u201d he wrote on Twitter. \u201cImagine adding \u2018let\u2019s outsource secret-keepin\u2019 to someone reputable like an art dealer\u2014and art-buyin\u2019 randos.\u2019 Imagine the chutzpah it takes to sell that mess as an ethics \u2018win.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shaub called the amount of money that Hunter Biden will reportedly charge for his art \u201coutrageous,\u201d and the White House\u2019s attempts to prevent transparency \u201cvery disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea\u2019s that even Hunter won\u2019t know, but the WH has outsourced government ethics to a private art dealer. We\u2019re supposed to trust a merchant in an industry that\u2019s fertile ground for money laundering, as well as unknown buyers who could tell Hunter or WH officials? No thanks,\u201d he added. \u201cIs this amateur hour for government ethics? Good luck dealing with the fallout when a new owner of Hunter\u2019s pricey \u2018art\u2019 appears in a magazine spread. In the meantime, the WH has put its stamp of approval on the president\u2019s son profiting off his father\u2019s public service again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Shaub, the former director of Obama\u2019s Office of Government Ethics, slammed the Biden administration on Thursday over reports that the administration had helped the president\u2019s son, Hunter Biden, craft &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314312,"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\/07\/Biden-7-scaled-3.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Obama\u2019s Ethics Chief Slams Biden Over Reported Move To Keep Hunter Biden\u2019s Art Buyers Secret: Enemies Could Use It Against Us","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Biden-7-scaled-3.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Obama\u2019s Ethics Chief Slams Biden Over Reported Move To Keep Hunter Biden\u2019s Art Buyers Secret: Enemies Could Use It Against Us","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586644","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}