The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | 6/11/24

Episode Date: June 11, 2024

 Nancy Pelosi attempted to rewrite history after a clip was released of her taking ownership for the lack of Capitol Police on January 6. Glenn and Blaze Media were placed on a list by a Ukrainian ou...tlet accusing them of spreading anti-Ukrainian rhetoric, so Glenn reiterates the facts. In breaking news, Hunter Biden has been convicted on three federal gun charges, which could result in a jail sentence of up to 25 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:26 In the middle of that, we find out about Hunter Biden, and his possibly going to jail. And all the ramifications of that, what does that mean? How would Joe Biden get away with pardoning if he was going to pardon? Or is this just the system showing everyone that we put him in jail, we can put Trump in jail? All that discussion and so much more on today's podcast. Let me tell you about Jace Medical.
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Starting point is 00:02:43 But Joe Biden was at a Juneteenth concert yesterday, and he was rocking it. He was rocking it. I want to show you some video if you're watching on the Blaze. Stu, maybe you can do the play-by-play and describe what's happening here. Go ahead, cut one. Biden standing in the crowd, like a statue, everyone around him dancing. He's literally not moving a muscle. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:03:09 His music playing and the dancing is going on, but he, I don't want to love nobody. It almost looks edited. It almost looks edited that he's like so motionless and stiff. Yeah. Like a corpse. Now, you know, it's interesting you brought up that editing thing because that's just such a short clip. You know, you don't know.
Starting point is 00:03:33 You know, he probably was rocking it. Right. You know, just a couple of frames later. So here's the full clip five times. The rate. Five times the speed. Here we go. Cut two.
Starting point is 00:03:47 Oh, my gosh. What is going on? Everyone around him is moving and he's not moving at all. And especially the guy in the sequin dress. Three people down from him. Look at this. Now they're sitting. Yeah, he barely moving.
Starting point is 00:04:07 That's very strange. Very strange. Now, it would be better than him actually dancing. And that may have been his thought process there. If like, if I try to dance, it's going to look terrible. I'm not sure there was a thought process there at all. I'm not sure of it, no. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:22 Not, not, not sure of that at all. Now, maybe we could get him the new Apple intelligence. Did you see this come out yesterday? I did, yeah. New Apple AI? Elon Musk is not real happy about this. Thinks this is, he said, I won't let any Apple product into any of my buildings. If you go through with this.
Starting point is 00:04:44 Here's just from the Apple, announcement yesterday, here's the new Apple Intelligence Calculator. Math notes are also really powerful when it comes to more complex math. Here, I have a physics problem my teammate and I are working on. We're calculating the maximum height of a table tennis ball when I hit it with different speeds and angles. Math notes supports variables, so I've declared a few here, and there's an expression below, which uses these variables to help me calculate the height. What's powerful about variables is that if I change one,
Starting point is 00:05:23 like the velocity of my shot, it will change the related results too. And if I want to see how the speed impacts the height visually, I can't. I'll just put y equals in front of this equation. And now, when I tap the equals sign, I have an option to create a graph. And if I'm curious how the height will be impacted by the angle of my shot,
Starting point is 00:05:48 I can hover my pencil over the angle and adjust it to see how it affects my graph in real time. It's an easy way to explore equations in math. It's pretty impressive. Yeah, I'm not even sure what she was even talking about. I need AI to explain what she was trying to. I don't. The velocity of a ping pong table and the height and how you hit it? Okay.
Starting point is 00:06:16 I don't know that the velocity of the ping pong table is particularly notable in that equation. ball, yes, yes, you're right. Ping pong table, zero. That's velocity of zero. The Joe Biden velocity when he's dancing. That Joe Biden looks like a table. It is really impressive on what AI can do. You know, it's just also really spooky on what AI can do.
Starting point is 00:06:44 And, you know, Ray Kurzweil's idea is that it'll make us all better. it will make us all, it'll free up our mind. If we don't have to think about the calculations, we can think about deeper things. No. No, we're not going to think deeper things. We're not going to store even more knowledge. We're probably going to watch more porn and play more games. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:10 You know, that's probably what will happen. You mentioned yesterday, Glenn, the Doug Bergam origin story. like the Doug Bergam prequel to the superhero he's become today. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was essentially this in a nutshell. He had a bunch of calculations he did by hand, and someone showed him that a computer could do it for him more quickly, and he decided to go into the software industry, right?
Starting point is 00:07:35 And it's like, that is kind of what this stuff is going to do, but we have good evidence as to whether people start thinking more deeply about things when that revolution happens. No, we just start looking at dumb seven-second videos on TikTok. Like, that's what we do. We turn our brains off completely and never think again. Yes, exactly right, exactly right. And how's that going to work out for us?
Starting point is 00:08:01 I don't think really well. Let me go to cut six here. This is Nancy Pelosi taking responsibility for the lack of January 6th security. We have responsibility, Terry. We did not have any accountability. for what was going on there and we should have this is ridiculous you're going to ask me in the middle of the thing but they've already breached the inaugural stuff that should we call the Capitol Police I mean the National Guard why weren't
Starting point is 00:08:37 the National Guard there to begin with they thought that they had sufficient no there's not a question of how they had but they don't know they clearly didn't know And I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more. Yeah, I should. Yeah. Now, here's Nancy Pelosi about that clip. The fact is that the President of the United States, the former president and his toadies, do not want to face the facts.
Starting point is 00:09:12 They're trying to do revisionist history on January 6th. But we cannot let us be dragged into their, again, false impression of what happened that day. They know what happened that day. Yeah. How is it that releasing the clip of her taking responsibility and saying, I should have known, how come they weren't there? Somebody knew, why didn't I know? How is playing that clip revisionist history?
Starting point is 00:09:51 Wouldn't revisionist history be, I don't know, what she's saying now? Yeah, she's revising what actually occurred to her own benefit. That is her version of revisionist history. I mean, I just don't. Hmm. Let's see. Let me play Let me play this illegal immigrant
Starting point is 00:10:18 talking to Fox News He's going to Well, he's not saying he's going to vote But if he was going to vote, how would he vote? Cut nine. What do you think of President Biden? Biden, I love Biden. Why do you love him?
Starting point is 00:10:37 Biden help us. It's good. That's a really It's weird because Yeah, I know. And it's weird because there's no There's not a lot of Americans that are saying that right now.
Starting point is 00:10:54 You know, Biden helped us. No, I can't see that. 62% of Americans now back mass deportations of illegal immigrants. 62%. Do you know who almost unanimously
Starting point is 00:11:11 don't agree with that? illegal immigrants. They're in a new poll shows that they're almost 100% in lockstep against mass deportations. So, wow. You know what that is? You know what that is? This is Biden couldn't convince people anymore of, they're going to put you all back in chains. He couldn't convince black people of that lie anymore.
Starting point is 00:11:43 this is the new black people back in change. He's going to send you back to your country. Yeah, yeah. That one's true. The back in chains thing was never true, but, you know, that's what they'll do, I guess. Now, the New York Times again is showing the rights racism. Two black Republican House members
Starting point is 00:12:13 and Trump surrogates reserved a cigar bar near downtown Philadelphia last week and invited conservative organizers and Trump curious black voters to smoke and sip cognac some Democrats
Starting point is 00:12:29 denounced it as a crass play rooted in stereotypes did the people who attended to the event think that where they were like gosh he is really stereotyping us that's why I'm going Well, I've had a problem with this story for the last couple of days. And I bring it to the table today because I still can't figure it out.
Starting point is 00:12:52 Let me just read this again. Trump's air gets reserved a cigar bar near downtown Philadelphia last week invited conservative organizers and Trump curious black voters to smoke and sip cognac. Now, when I think of cognac, I think, love it, I need my cognac. I don't, are blacks known for their cigar and cognac evenings? Because I really thought that was an elitist white, you know, I always, I would think of George Soros being like, yes, and then we kill all of them. As he's, you know, warming the cognac under his, you know, in his hand. Yes.
Starting point is 00:13:34 And maybe mutilate them a little bit too. It's kind of fun. I don't see the, what's the stereotype there? I mean, Hennessy is occasionally associated with an African-American demographic, perhaps. I don't know if that's accurate, but I've heard people say that that's something, like, in pop culture and stuff that I've seen. But I don't know if it's actually a real thing. I don't know if people utilize it in that way. I mean, you know, you could, if they were like, come on down and have menthol cigarettes and the Colt 45, then maybe, maybe.
Starting point is 00:14:16 But the menthol cigarette thing comes from Joe Biden, trying to buy people into voting for him by not taxing menthol cigarettes even higher. He's going to hold off on that. He wants to get rid of menthol cigarettes because they blow a hole in your lung. but he's going to hold off because them blacks like their menthol cigarettes apparently. It's incredible. Who's the, it's, watching, watching this stuff pour out of the news every day is a fun house mirror. It's like a magic show.
Starting point is 00:14:55 It's like watching a magic show. Everything just goes in and it comes out a rabbit. You're like, wait, that was an egg that he put in. How did a chicken come out of the hat? I don't understand that. Somehow or another. But I've never gone to like David Copperfield and said, you know, I'd like to get some advice from you and what's really going on because you made a coin disappear.
Starting point is 00:15:16 These people are making things disappear and reappear and making it look like one thing when it's another. I mean, it's a magic show. Do you think? And I don't think there's any time in history we've ever asked for the advice from a magician. Usually not a good idea. Do you think this works? I mean, what was it?
Starting point is 00:15:35 Typically about 90% of African-American voters go for the Democrat. I do think it works. And now it's reportedly around between 75 and 80 in a lot of these polls. So there's already been movement. Is this, are these efforts something that work? Or is the, does the- I think it does. With Donald Trump, it does.
Starting point is 00:15:55 It does. I mean, he got 12% from black men in 2020. If he can get 20, 25%, I think that changes the game. And it's why they're having to import new voters on the Democratic side. Let me talk to you about preborn. Hard to believe that this month marks two years since Roe v. Wade was overturned. We still celebrate that decision, but at the same time, with the good came a lot of bad. The number abortions actually increased after this went down.
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Starting point is 00:17:45 First, a Ukrainian publication with the editor-in-chief, who has ties to the U.S. State Department, has placed dozens of American politicians, activists, and media outlets, including Blaze Media and Glenbeck, on a list of those allegedly known to have shared Russian disinformation or otherwise made anti-Ukrainian statements. On Thursday, textie.org, an independent media outlet that fuses data journalism projects with traditional journalistic genres. This according to their website, they published an article entitled Roller Coaster, From Trumpists to Communists, the forces in the U.S. impeding aid to Ukraine and how they do it. There's 75 of us on this list, but nearly 400 entities that have opposed sending aid to Ukraine in its war against Russia.
Starting point is 00:18:44 We were mentioned, Blaze Media and myself mentioned on pages 34 of a 47-page list. The anti-Ukrainian Blaze Media links are all from 2023. They include one, which Blaze News article, there's one Blaze News article, two tweets, one of which is just showing a clip and a quote from Tucker Carlson, who's also on the list. And then three segments with Blaze Media's Glenn Beck. Okay. Okay. Now, what were the clips?
Starting point is 00:19:21 Well, the first clip that they had a problem with was that I had said that the plan to go into Russia to have Ukraine fight Russia and us to back them up was in the works in 2016. And Texty came out and said, that is an absolute lie. He's just making this stuff up. Well, the reason why I said that is because we found a clip that I had never seen before. This is Lindsay Graham with John McCain in the background. during election 2016 in Ukraine talking to the generals and the troops, listen to what he said. Your fight is our fight.
Starting point is 00:20:10 Your war is our fight. 2017 will be the year of offense. All of us will go back to Washington and we will push the case against Russia. We'll all of us will go to Washington. sanctions for Russia. Enough of a Russian aggression.
Starting point is 00:20:33 It is time for them to pay a heavier price. Our fight is not with the Russian people but with Putin. We're not with Russian people, but with Putin.
Starting point is 00:20:47 Our promise to you is to take your calls to Washington. Our promise is that we our battle to inform the American people of your bravery and make the case against Putin to the world. Okay, isn't that what happened in 2020?
Starting point is 00:21:15 And that exact, or 2021, and that exactly what happened? Now, Russia did invade. I, you know, I'm not going to make a case for Vladimir Putin being a good guy, because he's an absolute monster. However, you know, when you have the State Department doing a color revolution in 2014 in Ukraine to get rid of the Russian that they say was running Ukraine, and then you have Lindsey Graham and John McCain during the election saying, 2017 is the year we go on offense. it's time they pay a
Starting point is 00:21:58 a heavier price. Well, I would say that that kind of sounds like, you know, we're for going right after Russia. Our fights not with the Russian people, just Vladimir Putin. That sounds like regime change. Does it not? Now, why didn't it happen in 2017?
Starting point is 00:22:21 Because the unthinkable happened. Donald Trump was elected. That's what happened. Donald Trump was elected. In 2017, he became the president of the United States. And what happened? He all of a sudden was painted as a guy who was for Russia and the Russian interference. Forget the Chinese. Just the Russian interference alone.
Starting point is 00:22:51 So the enemy of Hillary Clinton and the State Department and everybody else, the enemy became Russia and Donald Trump tied closely together. So the offense had to wait for four years, but they continued to smear Donald Trump with Russia. That was the whole case. Okay, so now let me go on. Let me tell you about a show we did a few weeks ago. regime change it's been
Starting point is 00:23:28 United States policy for a very long time covert CIA operations we go in we manipulate the foreign media we meddle in elections we topple governments and then you know we go back to saying we didn't do that what are you talking about this is this started with the cold war but nothing the CIA pulled off comes
Starting point is 00:23:49 even close to what their successor began doing. Who was the successor to the CIA covert ops? Well, it was the United States government, that includes the CIA, along with NGOs, trade unions, and people like George Soros. Color Revolutions. The first one that was really successful was the Middle East, the Arab Spring, right? I told you the Arab Spring, was, it had its roots in communist, the European Spring, back after the Communist Manifesto was written. They tried to overthrow all of Europe, and it was called the European Spring.
Starting point is 00:24:37 How could this just peaceful movement just suddenly have the roots in revolutionary Marxism? Well, color revolutions, Middle East, then Latin America, and Eastern Europe, Ukraine is one of them, and here's what they do. The United States, they can keep their distance, goes through NGOs and trade unions, they train and mobilize street movements. Kind of like, let's see if I can think of a street movement that seems like it wasn't actually real. BLM or the Palestinian street movements. By the way, as we've shown you, funded by these same kind of people. So we showed you all of the evidence on a color revolution and how it was done.
Starting point is 00:25:28 And they did it all out in the open, and they even bragged about it. I showed you the people and the organizations at the top of the color revolution spear. I also showed you that some of these people, NGOs, trade unions, are now active here in the United States. And they seem to pop up every four years. totally coincidentally, their money and their actions usually come at a time of massive civil unrest right before an election. Now, there's usually some kind of government element at the top, could be the CIA. Most likely it's the State Department and USAID, but ultimately it's the office of the president. So we did a chalkboard on this. We showed that that has to happen. You have to have
Starting point is 00:26:15 those in the government that are wanting to overthrow another government, then the operation is privatized to give it distance from the government. This is where the NGOs, like the National Endowment for Democracy, come in. The NED is composed of four different entities, the National Democratic Institute, the International Republican Institute, the American Center for International Labor Solidarity, and the Center for International Private Enterprise. You see what's happening? You have both both sides, so it looks fair, Republican and Democrat, plus you have labor and private enterprise, everybody coming together. So this is a bipartisan kind of cover story. Next, in the food chain, you have to have the multi-billion dollar financiers and their organizations that partner in the
Starting point is 00:27:10 entire operation. This is where George Soros comes in, the Open Society Foundation, that's Tides Foundation, and then there are the people that spread the message, demonstrate in the streets and the media to report what the government wants you to report, wants them to report, to the masses. This is the blueprint. We've done it over and over and over again. And I make the case that these same people are doing it here in America. So why is the blaze? Why am I on this list?
Starting point is 00:27:45 I'm on this list because I believe I'm telling you exactly what's happening. We have a color revolution happening within our own government, within the NGOs and George Soros and all those people. This is what they're doing. And there's a possibility this time they succeed because you have to have an, quote, illegitimate president. You have to have street movements that are not only saying that it's illegitimate. you also have the media saying it's illegitimate and it doesn't work if Donald Trump is the one saying he stole the election it has to be their side saying the election was stolen
Starting point is 00:28:24 now let me go back to the outlet and who these people are the ones that put this misdisc and and dangerous information out you'll be surprised to hear that there's some of the same exact connections to color revolution. You're listening to The Best of Glenn Beck. Need a little more? Check out the full show podcast. Well, it's quite a day. In Wilmington, Delaware, a federal jury has convicted Hunter Biden of federal gun charges,
Starting point is 00:29:07 historic first for the offspring of a sitting president. his trial had his ex-wife and his sister-in-law talking about his drug use. He faces up now to 25 years in prison. He has not been sentenced yet, so that's what he faces up to 25 years. For three charges lying on a federal screening form about his drug use, that is, I mean, that is, I think it even says on the form is a federal crime of like 25 years in prison. You don't lie when you're buying a gun. Don't do it.
Starting point is 00:29:44 Then lying to a gun dealer and possessing the gun, although first time nonviolent offenders typically get shorter sentences. They're going to give him his sentence here soon. Yeah, about three weeks. They expect this to be three to four weeks. And now that sentence is, you know, one of those situations that, you know, depends on how long it is. Right, first time violent, nonviolent offenders, usually the term isn't too too long. If it's anything longer than, let's say, five or six months, you would assume, despite his denials, that Joe Biden will pardon him the second the election's over. Oh, of course.
Starting point is 00:30:24 Is that your expectation? Yes, of course he will. Yeah, I can't imagine he wouldn't. He's been, you know, getting his kid in and out of trouble for the past 30 years. Yeah. Why would he change his, you know, his parental. habits. New York Times is reporting that
Starting point is 00:30:43 Hunter Biden's team was feeling bullish about a non-guilty verdict before it was delivered. So this was a surprise. Yeah. One of the interesting reactions to this, Glenn, I love to get your take on this, is now the left
Starting point is 00:30:58 saying, well, I guess we won't be seeing anything about a rigged jury system anymore today, will we? obviously referring to the Trump case when people were saying the, uh, the system was rigged. Although I don't know. Was that your take on that? Do you think the system was rigged against with the Donald Trump? No, well, first of all, no, first of all, I would have
Starting point is 00:31:22 said the system was rigged when they came when the justice department, you know, colluded with the White House and, uh, and came up with some bogus, you know, uh, bogus plea deal that nobody in the world would have ever gotten. This is, now, there's no sentence. It says up to 25 years. There's no sentence, so we don't know, you know, but it's, this is normal. This is the way it works, usually, just usually happens to people much, much faster than this. And when it, when Donald Trump was at trial, we weren't saying the system was corrupt. We were saying the system in New York city and Washington, D.C. is corrupt because just because of the voter base, you can't get a fair trial if you're Donald Trump. But that doesn't mean the whole thing is corrupt. You know, my point is,
Starting point is 00:32:18 you have to play ball the way the people in power in New York wants you to play ball. That's corrupt. You know, I think generally we get it right. I think often that happens. I still think we have the best system out there, even though there are massive problems with it. And specifically in this case when it comes to Donald Trump, and that like, I actually have legitimate hope that the system, the legal system gets the Trump verdict right eventually, right? Like I don't, I think there's a good chance that gets overturned on appeal. The problem with that, though, is that the timeline of the legal system and our political system are not, are not working together very well, unless you happen to be a Democrat. And that, of course, is intentional. But, you know, like, I do think that eventually
Starting point is 00:33:10 the court system will probably suss this out. And I'm not at all surprised that, you know, Hunter Biden is, is guilty in this case. It was pretty blatant. But, like, that is overlooking what you just brought up, Glenn, and that they tried to completely brush this under the rug. Like, the, I mean, the political system tried to get involved in this multiple times to make sure this didn't occur. They got caught. And so now we have a jury who actually does come to the right conclusion here. Obviously, he was guilty of this. So, yeah, there's no, there's, you know, they weren't saying you can't bring up this person to prove that he was innocent. This was his gun. That is his signature on the paper where he lied. Okay. That's a huge penalty. Then when his
Starting point is 00:34:04 sister-in-law lover was found that his gun was in the glove box she went and took it in a bag that had cocaine powder in it threw it into a garbage can behind a supermarket she should have been charged quite honestly as well I think but she took the gun and she threw it into a garbage can because she was afraid
Starting point is 00:34:30 their kids might find it Well, so you're going to let somebody else's kids find the gun? What do you, you know, there's no, no question that this is exactly what happened. And you didn't have to make up laws to say, or skirt around whole sections of the law to get this. You're just enforcing the law. What's ironic about this is dad's such the big anti-goy. gun, you know, throw the book at him forever if they've, you know, they've ever had a cap gun in their life. And he's going to end up, I truly believe he's going to end up pardoning him.
Starting point is 00:35:13 I think he will as well. Of course, you know, these penalties are for thee, not for me. And so all of these hardcore, I'm Mr. Tough anti-gun guy, this is the exact type of stuff that Joe Biden was pushing for larger penalties for these type of actions. Now, I think there is, The best defense for Hunter Biden, which they didn't really get into in this particular trial, it will probably come up on appeal, is a Second Amendment defense. I don't know that it's a winning defense, but I think there is a good argument that the question itself is not properly represented in our histories and traditions. Whether you're an alcoholic or a drug addict and you can't have a gun if you are? Right. Like, you know, if you go back and look at the early machinations of that, of that, there's very much,
Starting point is 00:36:00 in our histories and traditions. Like, for example, you go into a bar, they take your gun as you go into a bar. They give it back to you when you leave, right? Like that type of stuff was, you know, common going back to the, you know, when guns first were being carried. But typically it wasn't, it's not one of those things where they would do the same thing. If you were an alcoholic, you'd never get a gun even when you were sober, right? And so the- Yeah, I think you could make a really strong case for that.
Starting point is 00:36:28 Yeah. And saying that, you know, I'm a recovering alcoholic. Should I own a gun? You know, it's the, it's the practicing, are you using drugs? Are you using alcohol? We could argue about that. And there might be a case to do it. However, the left would not be for that.
Starting point is 00:36:50 The left would be for all alcoholics, no matter in recovery or not, shouldn't own a gun. And all teetotlers as well. Yeah, but but that's that is not what this case is built on. This case is built on you lied on this federal form. You cannot lie. Everybody knows that. Everybody knows that. And it's true.
Starting point is 00:37:17 And it's one of those things that I find this case to be the least interesting part of the Hunter Biden saga in that like, it might not even be a constitutional question. I don't think there's, he didn't shoot anybody. Like, there's a lot. I mean, he should have, he should be, the law should apply to him like they apply to everyone else. But like to much more interesting to me is the tax stuff, the financial stuff and the stuff that ties into international business dealings that seemingly involved many of his family members, including maybe his dad.
Starting point is 00:37:48 I mean, certainly his dad in my view, but legally we don't have that proved yet. But can I ask you one other question? This came up where you were gone, Glenn. and I've been meaning to ask you about this every second since we talked about the story. I've never had sex with Hunter Biden. Oh, okay. You cleared it up. No, this is a story that came out and I was, Pat and I talked about it last week, and we both said in the air, the only person that we know that can possibly answer this question is Glenn Beck.
Starting point is 00:38:19 The story is from the New York Times, and it's painted as this like sob story about how we're so much. mean to Hunter Biden, right? Like, that's the tone of the story. The headline is Hunter Biden's paintings, not quite the refuge he sought. The president's son started selling his artwork years ago drawing potential ethics concerns that were discussing congressional testimony this year. And it goes through a very long, you know, feature about his incredible painting. But it gets into details on the finances that I have never seen before. And if you remember, they were talking about these paintings going for $500,000. A pie. pop.
Starting point is 00:38:57 Correct. In testimony that came out, they found that actually the most money he made was $85,000 for any of these paintings, okay? Which they hilariously say is not common for a novice painter. Really? It's not common for a novice painter to make $500 or $85,000 for a painting. Right. But they go through the details here, right?
Starting point is 00:39:20 All right. And they say all in all, the gallery sold about $1.5 million worth of art. Okay? Just thrown in there with no crinkled eyebrows at all from the New York Times is Mr. Biden's earnings proved more modest than the early hype had suggested. He reported $130,984 in gross income from art sales during the first two tax years that he was represented by the gallery. They just go on as if that's nothing. But is this the normal arrangement? One point five million in art sales only nets 130,000 to the artist. He's getting
Starting point is 00:40:00 8% of the sales. Is that even possible? No. No. If you are bringing something to the table, which he is, he's bringing fame. He's bringing people will come to the art show just to see him.
Starting point is 00:40:17 You can negotiate for a better rate. Because I was a new artist, I negotiated with my gallery 50%. They take 50. I take 50 because they're doing work. I'm doing work. Whatever. And if you're a new artist, you would do that. He's a new artist. And this guy is bringing a lot to the table. Hunter is. He's bringing not only the art, but he's bringing, I'm the president's son and I'm in the newspaper all the time. So people are coming. into this guy's gallery.
Starting point is 00:40:57 However, you know, it might be shady. You know, you're, I don't, you know, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:41:07 If this was somebody who knew Hunter, Hunter Biden, who he did, and knew that he was on the up and up and everything else, he should not get 8%. It would be more likely that he would get 45, 55%.
Starting point is 00:41:23 Yeah, like I could see, somewhere in that air. you getting a really good deal with a gallery because you also are bringing like, you know, some level of notoriety, right? And you're not just like same. But like, and he would have a similar deal. But I didn't want to.
Starting point is 00:41:34 Even if he got half of, of what you got, it would be much, much more than than what's reported here in the New York Times. No, this is, this is, that's ridiculous. That's ridiculous. Ridicrous. Eight percent is ridiculous. He obviously, if that's the real deal, he obviously made it while smoking crack. I mean, honestly, that's ridiculous.
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