Filmmaker Arrested at Art Gallery Set to Display Hunter Biden Pieces, Money Found on Floor

When people believe they’re being lied to and treated like they’re stupid, they have a tendency to lash out.

Now, this is not to say that lashing out is always the right response, but if someone behaves irrationally in the face of absurdly patronizing treatment, it certainly doesn’t negate the insulting nature of the person who is, indeed, patronizing them.

Such is the case with artist-musician-filmmaker-activist Rod Webber, who was recently arrested for attempting to vandalize the Manhattan art gallery that has been slated by the White House to provide ethical oversight to Hunter Biden’s budding art career.

Yes, this is all, every word of it, real life.

As the U.K. Daily Mail reported, Webber livestreamed his antics at the Soho gallery on Friday, asking his followers before he barged inside, “Who’s ready for a weird livestream?”

Let’s hope they were, because that’s certainly what they got. Just before being tackled by a staff member, Webber attempted to write “Daddy War Crimes” on the walls of the Georges Bergès Gallery with what the Daily Mail said appeared to be spray paint, although the vandal said it was hair spray, which could be easily removed.

“As we all know, going back for many, many years — roughly 40 years — Joe Biden has involved himself in all kinds of shenanigans,” he told his followers at the start of the livestream.

“Ask any politician: You can’t avoid being corrupted by the office. Maybe he went in with good intentions, but he’s been corrupted over the years. He’s worked with segregationists, Klansmen. And now, I don’t even know what’s going on with this gallery situation, but he can’t stop bombing Syria or Iraq and someone should say something about it, so let’s go see Hunter Biden’s gallery.”

According to a witness, Webber was taken down by an employee of the gallery just after he began writing, who informed him he was making a “citizen’s arrest.” Webber also apparently dropped a bundle of bills on the floor in the midst of the chaos, as well.

NYPD arrived on the scene shortly after the scuffle and Webber was subsequently arrested.

The activist/provocateur @rodwebber gets detained (& reportedly arrested) after apparently trying to spray paint “Daddi Warcrimes” in pink hairspray on the wall of the NY art gallery planning to sell HUNTER BIDEN’s artwork for $75k-$500k. https://t.co/AscflabjNc pic.twitter.com/zn0Tvcmgcp

— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) July 9, 2021

When a reporter from the Daily Mail managed to ask him as he was being led to a police cruiser why he had tried to vandalize the gallery, Webber shouted, “Because Hunter Biden is helping to launder money for his godfather. That’s why Daddy War Crimes were the words on the wall.”

“Biden is here to launder money for the oligarchs and to do business for his masters to hurt brown people across the other side of the globe.”

A very zany and certainly illegal way of making a very good point — Webber might be a bit nutty, but his suspicions are certainly not fabricated out of thin air.

In fact, they’re rather well-founded.

His stunt came on the same day White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki glowingly assured the American public that any concerns over the high asking price for amateur Hunter Biden’s artwork, which is set to be sold out of the Georges Bergès Gallery in the fall, will be assuaged by the fact that any buyers would be totally anonymous.

Yes, this is actually the White House’s strategy for dissipating any accusations of influence peddling and money laundering. The American people may never know who is willing to pay $100,000 for a canvas that the first son splattered with paint, but don’t worry, he won’t either!

“White House officials have helped craft an agreement under which purchases of Hunter Biden’s artwork — which could be listed at prices as high as $500,000 — will be kept confidential from even the artist himself, in an attempt to avoid ethical issues that could arise as a presidential family member tries to sell a product with a highly subjective value,” The Washington Post reported earlier this week.