First of all, I have never discussed with my son, or my brother, or
anyone else anything having to do with their businesses, period.
And what I will do is the same thing we did in our administration.
There'll be an absolute wall between personal and private and the government.
There wasn't any hint of scandal at all when we were there.
And I'll close the same kind of strict, strict rules.
That's why I never talk with my son, or my brother, or anyone else,
even distant family, about their business interests, period.
>> Speaker 2: Now the real question is, was that statement from
President Joe Biden in August of 2019 an accurate statement?
Was he telling the truth?
And some are asking that question now that a new report in Business Insider
demonstrates that a wealthy Democratic donor has spent quite a bit of money
on purchasing the President's son's artwork.
Hunter Biden apparently is engaging in some artwork, and
that artwork has sold for quite a bit of money.
And later we learn that that very donor who bought the artwork was appointed
to an interesting position by President Joe Biden.
So let's get into the details.
Let's talk about who this is and what Insider found through their investigation.
Now, the wealthy Democratic donor who has spent some money,
although it's unclear how much money,
on one of Hunter Biden's pieces of art is Elizabeth Hirsch Naftali, okay?
She's a Los Angeles real estate investor and philanthropist.
Naftali is influential in California Democratic circles and
is a significant Democratic donor who has given $13,414 to the Biden campaign and
$29,700 to the Democratic National Campaign Committee this year.
In 2022, she hosted a fundraiser headlined by Vice President Kamala Harris.
So she's very clearly involved in Democratic politics.
More importantly, I think this is very relevant, she has been raising money for
Democratic candidates and the Biden administration in particular.
But now we're also learning that this individual had purchased some of
Hunter Biden's artwork.
And we don't know exactly how much was spent by this specific person, but we
do know that Hunter Biden has brought in at least $1.3 million by selling his art.
And later, Naftali was appointed to an interesting position by Biden.
Stick around for that information in just a moment.
But, Cenk, I want you to jump in right now and tell me what you think.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, so finally they got something.
So, look, I think we're the most honest show by a million miles in all of media.
So all the time when the Republicans are digging, and digging, and
digging to try to find something on Hunter, it was all nonsense.
They're, he took drugs, and we saw his penis, okay?
Who cares?
And then they made up things,
we have an informant at the FBI who knows that Joe Biden took a $5 million bribe.
And then you look into it and you're, no, you don't.
There was some dude who called in and he said, yeah, I think he did, but
I'm not even sure.
It's secondhand, and he's, and plus, I don't think he even did it.
That's not evidence, okay, you guys are a joke.
And I don't wanna reward digging and digging cuz people powerful people go
on fishing expeditions to destroy their opponents by digging and
digging until they find something.
The best example was Bill Clinton.
They started on a real estate deal in Arkansas, which he turned out he
was totally innocent on until they found out an affair.
And then they're, okay, we got a dress.
Aha, now we're gonna moralize about your life, and we're gonna smear you and
all that stuff.
Having said all that, this one is a little bit real.
>> Yeah. >> Speaker 3: And so when it's real,
we tell you guys.
And so these donors, they funnel money to the campaigns and
sometimes to the people and to the families, and this is not new.
And I like that Republican voters are finding out about it for the first time,
cuz remember, right wing media keeps it from them, too, because right wing media
works with Republican politicians and doesn't mind their corruption at all.
>> Speaker 2: Yeah, this corruption occurs on both sides.
And look, it's usually very simple, and it does not even need to require purchasing
artwork from someone who clearly isn't an artist, just putting that out there.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna come back to that.
>> Speaker 2: You just donate a ton of money to the candidate.
And should that candidate get elected, it is highly likely that individual will
reward you by appointing you to ambassador of whatever country,
ambassador to the UN, whatever it is, right?
It's favor for a favor, it's not as cut and dry as a quid pro quo.
It's not in text like, I'm going to give you this money, and in return,
I'm expecting you to appoint me to this position.
But you get rewarded when you're a big time donor for
members of either political party.
Now, in this case, there's an extra component of it having to do with
Hunter Biden and his artwork, right?
So, as I mentioned, his first art opening brought in about $1.3 million.
We don't know, I know it's insane.
>> That's a joke. >> We don't know what portion of that
came from Elizabeth Hirsch Naftali, but
we do know that there were other buyers who we are unfamiliar with.
I'll get to those other buyers in just a moment.
Now, in July of 2022, eight months after Hunter Biden's first art opening,
Joe Biden announced Naftali's appointment to the Commission for
the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad.
Now, look, it is an unpaid position.
Another caveat to be mindful of is it is unclear whether the appointment
happened after she purchased the artwork or
before she purchased the artwork, Insider is clear about that.
Now, membership on that commission is an unpaid position that is
often filled by campaign donors, family members, and political allies,
the same crowd that often winds up with US ambassadorial appointments.
Naftali's fundraising activities mark her as the kind of well
connected donor who often wins such appointments,
regardless of any relationship they might have with the president's family.
And I do wanna give you a few more details about other individuals who purchased some
of Hunter Biden's artwork.
Insider also obtained internal documents from Hunter Biden's gallery
showing that a single buyer purchased $875,000 worth of his art.
I believe or she, this person purchased about eleven pieces of artwork.
The documents do not indicate the buyer's identity.
But Insider claims that while the Biden administration claims that we don't know
who the buyers are, that Hunter Biden absolutely did know who the buyers were.
>> Speaker 3: He knew at least two of the buyers because they told him.
The gallery is not supposed to tell Hunter Biden, and the gallery swears up and
down they did not tell Hunter Biden.
But apparently, Hunter Biden's personal friends with two of them and
they told Hunter and that's why he knows who two of the buyers are.
Okay, guys, most of the left wing shows say, there's nothing with ever, ever,
ever, he's the most innocent guy in the world.
Most of the right wing shows say, everything he did is wrong and
deeply connected to Joe Biden.
No, those extremes are not true.
Okay, so in this case, you're telling me that Hunter Biden was one of
the top Ukrainian gas experts in the world?
>> Speaker 2: Obviously, yeah.
>> Speaker 3: And now also one of the great artists in the world.
>> Speaker 2: Multitalented, multifaceted.
>> Speaker 3: Okay, I got news for you.
I know tons of artists, and I'm sure a lot of you do, too.
They're not selling their work out of the gate with no previous experience
at the top galleries for $1.3 million in total.
I mean, come on, who could possibly believe that?
And if that's true, and
he turns out to be magically one of the great artists in this country, I mean,
how many artists in America can say that they sold $1.3 million worth of art?
20, I don't know, the art world.
200 max?
And he's in the top 20 out of the gate?
No, come, get out of here.
It's totally ridiculous.
Obviously, they're funneling money to him.
By the way, art world, if you don't point out that this is ridiculous,
I mean, you're becoming a joke, a laughingstock.
It's a bunch of rich people who get together and play as slap football, okay?
They're, great art, great art, great art.
This guy won't point, come and get out of here,
it's totally ruining your credibility, if you had any credibility left.
Anyways, now, having said that, we don't know if she got the appointment
after she bought the art, as Ana pointed out.
But remember, it doesn't really matter.
Right, because she got it after the fundraisers and
donating all that money, yeah.
>> Speaker 3: So, guys, tell me, and it doesn't matter,
not that it means that the Bidens are not guilty.
It means Joe Biden is guilty of this, but so is every president,
including Donald Trump.
In fact, I have a spectacular case of that in a second, okay?
So she gave the money to Joe Biden through campaign contributions.
She gave the money to Hunter Biden through the art, and
we're, which corruption is who cares?
It's absurd that we give away these positions,
including top ambassador positions.
This is like the bottom of the rung.
The top of the rung is ambassador positions,
we give them away to rich donors all the time.
You bribed me, so why don't you become ambassador to France?
What?
[LAUGH] Okay, that's insane.
And they do it all the time.
So for Republicans, if you're rejoicing, we got Biden, we got the Democrats,
who's the only ones doing this.
You know what Trump did?
Sheldon Adelson gave him over $100 million twice in 2016 and
2020 to his PACs, to his campaigns, etc.
So you know what he did when he was president?
>> Speaker 2: Squandered it?
>> Speaker 3: Well, first of all, [LAUGH] no, he didn't squander it in 2016,
he wanted 2016 to be fair to him, okay?
But no, as president,
not only did he give Adelson every single thing he wanted all the tax cuts,
destroying the unions, shutting down a corruption case against them,
and ending gambling online, okay, [LAUGH] which saved his whole business.
But on top of that, he gave his wife, Miriam Adelson,
the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Now, if you're MAGA tell me Miriam Adelson deserved the Presidential Medal of
Freedom, you know what she's done in her life to deserve it?
She married Sheldon Adelson, she hasn't done anything else.
All these rich deletons, whether they're on the Democratic side or
the Republican side, all they do is play ass slap football.
They get together like, you guys are great, you guys are great.
Let's buy each other's stuff.
Let's buy which politician did you buy?
I bought this politician.
And what did they give you?
They gave me an ambassadorship.
They put me on an art committee.
And for Miriam, you guys are amateurs.
We gave $100 million,
I got the most prestigious award that the United States of America gives.
And out of all of this, so who's the most guilty?
Hunter Biden?
Joe Biden?
Donald Trump?
No, in my opinion, the most guilty is the American media.
They look at all of this, I mean, brazen, over the top corruption.
They're like, we don't see it.
>> Speaker 2: To be fair, I know you keep crediting the Republican Party for
this new revelation.
This was an investigative report by Insider.
So this is the media unraveling or uncovering,
I should say potential corruption.
>> Speaker 3: No, great point by Ana.
>> [LAUGH] >> So, first of all, thank you for
pointing that out.
Insider, nice job on the investigative work.
To be fair to the Republicans, they dug so much, and they made it such a big issue
that someone finally figured this out and did some investigative reporting, right?
Now, but the reason why I blame media in general is,
the next time someone gets an important ambassadorship, the next
time there's legislation that's on the line, the next time there's an election,
are they gonna say, they voted on that bill because they got bribed by that guy?
No, the American media will never say that,
even though it's patently obvious to every American voter.
The only people in the country who can't figure it out, is people in media.
Why did they get the ambassadorship?
And that's unimportant stuff, sometimes they'll mention that around the edges.
Why did they pass that bill?
Why did it go all through the corporation?
Look at the corporate donors.
I gave them the money to pass that bill.
Never, never, the heart of corruption must be protected.
And its number one protector is mainstream media.