Jason Chaffetz: Hunter Biden keeps cashing in on his family name – there's only one way to paint this scheme

The White House defended the president's son, Hunter Biden and his upcoming art show last week. The White House says the names of buyers who purchase paintings created by the president's son will be kept anonymous.

Hunter Biden's own art representative was quoted acknowledging that the Biden name, rather than the quality of the art, is integral to the value of the pieces.  "People buy art not just for the exchange value," Georges Berges told Women's Wear Daily. "There is an intrinsic value. It gives you a sense of status. People buy a Picasso or a Warhol for a variety of reasons. They want to hang it in their homes to show their friends they have one. That could be a motivation for a Hunter Biden — for status or whatever reason. That also affects price."  A better solution, promoted by Oregon Artswatch Senior Editor Bob Hicks, would have been to keep the seller, rather than the buyers, anonymous.  "Instead of insisting the buyers be anonymous, maybe the artist should have been anonymous, or creating under a different name.  Why not take 'Hunter Biden' out of the equation, at least until his father's out of the White House, and let the art find it's natural economic level?"