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Buying Art from Hunter Biden Pays Off · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day. You're listening to the West Carol Morning Show. Thursday morning, twenty
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seventh day of July. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me twenty seven deep
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in July. How's that even possible? Knocking on the door? August back
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to school, Halloween stuff's in the stores. I know that upsets people.
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I don't know why. I don't know why people get worked up about It's
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it's practically August, you got, you know, three months to Halloween.
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I understand that. But there's not really a holiday that's coming up that you
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typically decorate for, right there's not. There's not really something that you're gonna
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go out of your way, and people are gonna get upset. And when
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we get into October and they start swapping it out for Christmas things and oh,
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it's we haven't even Thanksgiving yet, for crying out loud, and that's
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what people do. They get upset about it because they got nothing else to
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worry about. I guess I don't know. I don't know why that upsets
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people so much. But there's not really I mean, you do sometimes decorate
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for the fall, or you decorate for Thanksgiving. But you know, the
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next big holiday after Halloween that people tend to decorate the whole house and yard
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and things for is Christmas. I know there's those people who bought the blow
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up things that sit out in front of their houses for every holiday. They
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got like an inflatable Flag Day, an inflatable tree for Arbor Day. They
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got all those, they got them all covered. I don't know. They
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must have a well, I guess they're inflatable. They shrink down. They
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don't take up a lot of space. They take up more space than I
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got. That's all I can tell you. They take up way more space
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than what I got. So, yeah, we're on the we're on the
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other side of it. Man, it's gonna be fast. Just brace yourself
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because August is gonna zip by. We'll be into September, we'll be into
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Labor Day at Dragon cong and then we'll be into Halloween before you know it.
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So just brace yourself. Man, It's it's gonna happen quick. Now's
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the time to start doing the early Christmas shopping. But you can't Christmas shop
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it's still hot outside. Oh, they get worked up about that time.
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They don't like it, they don't like it at all, or, as
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Andy Griffith would say, it's all all right, let's talk about Kevin Spacey.
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I'm gonna lead this unto Hunter Biden, but I want to start with
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Kevin Spacey, because yesterday Kevin Spacey found not guilty of sexual assault offenses.
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There were I guess four particular charges that he was four men he was accused
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of assaulting between two thousand and one and twenty thirteen. It was his birthday
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yesterday too. Did they give him a favorable plea because it was his birthday?
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Was that one of his birthday wishes? If so, kudos for the
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effective use of the birthday wish first of all. But he turned sixty four
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yesterday, arguably one of the great actors of our time, Okay, and
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then all these accusations and charges come along and it's it's nasty, man,
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it was ugly. A lot of serious stuff that he's been accused of over
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the years, and this is just four men in this particular case. Because
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at the time he was working as the artistic director London's Old Vic Theater.
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So during the trial he was called by prosecutors a sexual bully, and they
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claim that he did all sorts of physical things to people. I'm not kind
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of go into details. It involved grabbing people in inappropriate places. It involved
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kissing them in inappropriate places. That's the safest way to put it. You
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know, We'll just say kissing in inappropriate places with people that were not awake.
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Okay, So those sorts of things, and he during the trial,
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his defense said that was all madness. I guess he testified in the trial
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and that any any touching was consensual. And uh, you know, he
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could have been put in prison for life if he'd been found guilty, but
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he wasn't. There were two other cases, of course, that have been
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dismissed in the US for Kevin Spacey, which which now gets us back to
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what I want to talk about today is famous people ever ever, I mean,
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what's Martha Stewart, Like, how many famous people actually get prosecuted anymore?
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What you know, I know we had that whole like full House thing
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with the the Laurie Laughlin and the But I does she count as still being
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famous because let's be honest, you know, her days of fame were long
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behind her. Full House was a long time ago. I know they did
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fuller House. I don't know that she was involved in that or she was.
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I don't think she lasted past the whole admission scandal thing. But I
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mean, there's got to be some that I'm just not thinking about. When
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I'd think about, you know, Alec Baldwin, we just had no big
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deal. You get a pass. Get They all just seemed to get a
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pass, don't they. Is it just the money? Is it the lawyers?
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Can they hire expensive lawyers? I know all of that has always been
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speculated. Or you get lawyers that are willing to just say anything right,
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you get the Johnny Cochranes of the world that just can find a way to
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make it work for you. Chris Rock had a great line about Johnny Cochrane
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where he said, you know, they were talking about he was talking about
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when now, when any well not now, but he was talking it then
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post O J. Trull. Johnny Cochrane of course has passed, but there
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was a period where he was saying that anybody who was going to be charged
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with anything, would you know, should just make sure they get Johnny Cochrane
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because he's that good. And people would say, well, if you look
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you look guilty. If you get Johnny cochrane as your lawyer, and he
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said I'd rather look guilty at the mall than innocent in prison, right,
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And that's it's a good, I think description for it, because I think
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that's something that's a reality. You get the right lawyer and you're able to
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put and this What's interesting about this to me though, is that this was
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in the UK. This is a trial that took place overa so this isn't
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just in the US. Now. For Kevin Spacey, he's uh, he's
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had two wins, right, He's had the US win, now the UK
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win. And there's still people out there that I think have accused him but
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maybe haven't gone as far as to move forward with it because there were some
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talk about some other people. But anyway, so I guess this is another
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win for fame and fortune. It's interesting, isn't it that when we get
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told by different celebrities about how we're supposed to vote and about how we don't,
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you know, do the support the right candidates and support the right things
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in the world, and we're just not that we're just dumb because we're not
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in New York, in LA or whatever. And then we realize that they're
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they're the ones that seem to have all the all the favoritism going their way,
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right anyway, So we we have that, and then now we uh
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transition that into talking about Hunter Biden. He was supposed to get a plea
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deal yesterday. He was ready to show up take a plea deal for his
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attacks of Asian charges, and when he got there, the whole thing fell
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apart because there were some issues about whether or not that weapons charge was going
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to be part of the agreement. So he ended up pleading not guilty yesterday.
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So it looks like this we'll move forward as some sort of a trial,
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but probably for the best for him because chances are just based on what
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we're talking about. No big deal. He's famous enough, right he's Hunter
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Biden for crying out loud? Is any? I mean, I don't know
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where things are gonna go with Trump. I don't know where that whole thing
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goes. That that becomes something a little different. That's just not a celebrity
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that's facing Georges. Trump has had some things already kind of brushed aside for
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him. But here we go Hunter Biden. Is he just gonna roll the
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dice? On this and probably come out better off without having to take the
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plea deal. That that very well could be the case. It's interesting,
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isn't it. Also on the subject of Hunter Biden. You know, he's
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a famed painter. He's an artist. No one knew he was an artist,
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and then all of a sudden, one day he was an artist.
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He has no formal training. He's what wasn't known throughout his life to be
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a gifted artist. No one, no one ever talked about Hunter Biden and
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said, man, tell you what that Hunter Biden a boy. He can
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smoke the crack better than anybody else out there. Man, you know what
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else, he's also a painter, Like, that's not what the conversations went.
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Boy, oh boy, is he good with the prostitutes. Man,
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that guy can find a prostitute anywhere in the world. You drop him in
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by parachute in the middle of the desert, in the middle of the Sahara
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desert, and that guy can find a prostitute and some crack cocaine in about
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ten minutes. That's how skilled he is. That. Oh yeah, and
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by the way, give him some water colors while he's there. And he's
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great. Nobody ever said that. They might have said the first part,
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but they didn't say the part about the water colors. He wasn't somebody who
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spent a lot of time in the kiln making pottery. You know, nobody
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knew him as that. Nobody was like, man, oh man, that
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guy can make a mug. Oh and he's he's good with the prostitutes.
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Nobody ever said that, not the not the second part, or maybe the
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second part, not the first part. I switched it up on myself and
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confused myself. So's he's not really known to be this famed artist. He
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wasn't. And then all of a sudden he starts painting and selling paintings for
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god knows how much. Sometimes they don't even tell you how much. It's
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a big secret, because that's that's one of the great con jobs of all
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time. Now when it comes to art. When you've got an art show,
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people can come in, they can bid on and purchase paintings. You
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don't know how much they spent, and you don't necessarily know who the buyer
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is. You might be able to find out how much they spent, but
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you're not going to know who the person is. And of course, as
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it should That raised a lot of flags for a lot of people when he
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started selling paintings, because people said, well, who are the people that
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are giving money to the son of the now president. Who are these people
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who's doing this? Is it possible that they could want some sort of you
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know, little kickback for it? Could they be giving money to Hunter Biden?
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And then we've got all these emails and things about having to kick money,
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like half of it to the big guy and all that stuff. Is
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it possible that somebody would give Hunter Biden money for some piece of garbage painting?
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They're not good either, I mean, they're really not. Is it
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possible that somebody would give him, I don't know, like one hundred thousand
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dollars or half a million dollars for a painting and then that money, some
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of that money end up, you know, going to the president. Is
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it possible? And then maybe there'd be some kind of favor levied on the
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other side of it. Is that possible? We'll know, of course,
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the folks on the left, that's not what's happening. It's all above board.
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And people on the right said, well, well, who's buying the
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paint Well, we can't tell you who's buying the paintings. That's a secret.
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That's a big old secret. We can't tell you who those people are.
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Well, we now know who one of the people is that bought one
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of the paintings. We know that a real estate mogul is. If you're
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a real estate agent, are you also a mogul? Do you have to
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be an agent to be a mogul? I don't know how that works.
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But a long time Democrat donor U purchased a one of these, one of
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these paintings, at least one. We don't know how many others, but
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they say at least one of the paintings by a you know, guy who
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had no formal art training. So um, this uh, this woman who
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made this purchase? This real estate mogul slash Democrat donor slash a fan of
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art. That's the best way to art. Elizabeth Hirsch Naftali and Uh.
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Last July, she was appointed to the US Commission for the Preservation of America's
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Heritage Abroad. She got a position. Say she got it. They claim
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they they're not no connection. They can't say anything. But eight months before
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that, she bought one of Hunter Biden's paintings. I'm sure there is nothing
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connected to this. There's no connection whatsoever to her buying his painting and getting
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this appointment, none whatsoever. That is not something that has even been addressed.
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Wait, it was addressed. People brought that up before. We just
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said that, didn't we Something weird going on there, something weird. Now.
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According to the Biden administration, they say that Naftali's work in philanthropy,
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as well as the working with Jewish causes in Israel and la that's what led
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to her nomination for this position. So it had nothing to do with the
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painting, nothing to do with that. There's absolutely no quid pro quo involved
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in this. There's no backscratching, no this for that, no tit for
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tat, none of that stuff. None of that stuff. I don't I
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can't speak any I can't speak to the prostitute stuff. But you know,
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maybe that relating to the quid pro quo part, of course, But it's
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just this mighty suspicious, mighty suspicious, and I kind of think, I
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do think that maybe being able to not take the plea deal yesterday and the
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way that things kind of happen, they just seem to happen these days.
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Maybe it could end up working out for the best for Hunter Biden. It
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gives them more time to make more paintings and then more people who buy the
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paintings, maybe to you know, get some appointments from the Biden administration.
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