OPINION:
The House is kicking off impeachment proceedings against Homeland Security Sham, err, Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Another legislator is looking into the impeachment of too-sick-to-call-in Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. Georgia’s Fani Willis is fanning ethics’ flames after she sicced her prosecutor boyfriend after Donald Trump — on the taxpayer dime. And Hunter Biden’s curious art sales have reaped the kind of financial reward normally seen only in dead painters, and only in the good ones, neither category of which applies in this instance. Hello, buyer, meet Uncle Joe!
To put it mildly: The Democratic Party is in shambles.
Hunter alone should be enough to make any voter, even the ones still living in mama’s basement, flee a Biden ticket in 2024. The American people were promised by a White House spokesperson that the administration was absolutely, positively, 100 percent certain that Hunter’s sales of art were in line with the highest ethical standards ever before seen in American history, and even never before seen in American history — even more so than those established by “I cannot tell a lie” George Washington.
Well, well, well.
Turns out that’s not exactly true.
From House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, following testimony from Georges Berges, Hunter’s “art gallerist” — yes, gallerist: “The Biden White House appears to have deceived the American people about facilitating an ethics agreement governing the sale of Hunter Biden’s art. Hunter Biden’s gallerist never had any communication with the White House about such an agreement to make sure there was any sort of ethics compliance at all, and he provided information to the committee revealing how Hunter Biden’s amateur art career is an ethics nightmare. The vast majority of Hunter Biden’s art has been purchased by Democrat donors,” he said.
And away we go.
One Democrat donor bought some of Hunter’s art and shortly after received an appointment by President Biden to a cushy commission. Other art purchases — well, we don’t really know, now. Therein lies the problem.
Money laundering, influence buying, hush payments — these are some of the red flags that are raised with Hunter’s art sales.
Put it this way: If Hunter were Trump’s son, his art sales would have been nipped in the bud. Places like ProPublica would have joined forces with MSNBC to launch in-depth investigative pieces that saw correspondents flying to spots all over the world, tracking this piece or that piece of art, and reporting on all the seedy details, either true or untrue, about the purchasers’ pasts, as well as those of their families, their extended families, even their family pets. And impeachment proceedings — yet again — would have been launched against Trump.
Democrats’ biggest score these days is their ownership of the media.
It’s the only way they’re able to withstand such a whirlwind of righteous scrutiny and investigation. Without cover from the media, Democrats wouldn’t hold any political power in America at all.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” is available by clicking HERE or clicking HERE or CLICKING HERE.
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