The Issue: The White House’s response to the lack of transparency around the sales of Hunter Biden’s art.
President Biden was asked about possible corruption involving “the smartest man he knows,” his son Hunter (“Still Winking at Hunter’s Sleaze,” Editorial, Oct. 11).
His reply to the reporter was: “You gotta be kidding me.” This is accepted as an answer to a legitimate question.
We’re to believe that his son, who was discharged from the Navy for drugs, lied on an application for a pistol permit and left his laptop for repairs with all kinds of incriminating evidence on it would be above selling art on daddy’s name. When is America going to wake up?
Michael Murphy
Mahopac
The White House is not throwing up its hands at Hunter’s obvious art scam. That would indicate hopelessness, when really the administration simply does not care.
Our corrupt justice system won’t enforce laws against Democrats. The mainstream-media propagandists won’t cover it.
As for voters, screw them. Democrats will just continue to change election laws. They are not hopeless. They are laughing at you.
Rich Codey
Manhattan
Is there anything that Hunter Biden does that is honest, forthright and not just another scheme?
He is this generation’s version of Billy Carter, President Jimmy Carter’s younger brother, who couldn’t stay out of trouble.
There have been hookers, financial schemes, big-money deals with foreign governments for a drug-addled loser whose father is president. Were Hunter a Trump, the media would eat him alive.
So his current pursuit is abstract painting — the works purchased in secret, likely by “art lovers” from China, Ukraine, Iran and anywhere else Joe has reach.
Hunter’s flings are never on their face illegal. It’s just that he’s no artist, knows nothing about the oil and gas business or private equity, yet does deals like a senior partner at Goldman Sachs. As his dad would say, “C’mon, man!”
Rich Klitzberg
Princeton, NJ
It’s a serious slap in the face to struggling artists the world over that Hunter Biden had this opportunity to sell his work.
Do we even know that he actually did the work? His track record of lying speaks for itself.
I am again disgusted that this family is in the White House.
Alfred Bonnabel
Manhattan
The Issue: Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving’s decision not to get vaccinated despite mandates.
I love the way Kyrie says it’s not about the money; it’s about his convictions (“Ky speaks,” Oct. 14).
What about his conviction to be a team player? He’s hurting his team. He should also realize he’s an influencer who could set an example by getting the vaccine and then others would follow.
If he would understand this concept, eventually restrictions would be able to be lifted.
He also mentioned his concern for people who lost their jobs as a result of the pandemic. I wonder how much of his paycheck he has donated to food banks, etc. since the pandemic started.
D. Gold
Brooklyn
Nets General Manager Sean Marks said that the team “respects” Kyrie Irving’s decision to be a bad, disloyal teammate by not getting vaccinated.
Since the word “respect” implies approval and even admiration, Marks should have instead used the word “accepts.”
Many bad things have to be “accepted,” but if they’re bad, they should never be “respected.”
Richard Siegelman
Plainview
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