The arrangement is meant to prevent ethics questions—but has also raised some.
which first reported the story, Berges has said Hunter Biden's artwork could be priced anywhere from $75,000 to $500,000."This arrangement is problematic. The best disinfectant, in this case, would have been to have a publicly open process.
But Richard Painter, who was President George W. Bush's top ethics lawyer, told ABC News he would have counseled against a secrecy deal for the president's son during his time in the White House. "The problem is they chose the secrecy route and that just never works. I don't want to say it's like Trump's tax returns, because he's not the president. But whenever you don't disclose something, whenever there's secrecy people will assume the worst," he added.
Hunter Biden has long used art as a way to cope with addiction and life tragedies, including the death of his brother Beau in 2015."It keeps me away from people and places where I shouldn't be," he said in the interview.
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