The graft, it seems, never ends — at least, until January 20th, when the Bidens will have little or no influence left to peddle.

Case in point: Ukrainian Ambassador Oksana Markarova gifted First Lady Frau Doktor Professor Jill Biden with a brooch. The Ukranian embassy maintains the brooch was worth less than a dollar. But the Bidens, on a disclosure form, documented an estimated value of — wait for it — over $14,000.

Embattled Ukrainian Ambassador Oksana Markarova said a brooch she gave Jill Biden actually cost “less than 1 dollar” after the White House said it was worth more than $14,000 on disclosure forms.

Markarova, whom top congressional Republicans want to be fired over an event they believed was designed to boost Democrats in swing-state Pennsylvania, gave the first lady the forget-me-not-flower brooch on the same day that the Bidens hosted her at the 2023 State of the Union address.

“Non-acceptance would cause embarrassment to donor and U.S. Government,” an annotation on the gift registry says.

Uh-huh.

It's tempting to be charitable and see this as an innocent gift, rather appropriately made out of the remains of spent munitions to represent the conflict Ukraine is embroiled in with Tsar Vladimir I's Russia. But the Biden family's track record on Ukraine sort of opens them up for suspicion; Hunter Biden's inexplicable (except by graft) lucrative employment by a Ukranian oil company, for example.

The Biden family's capacity for graft seems endless. But in this case, the Ukrainian ambassador's protestations ring a little hollow.

But the ambassador posted to X that there was confusion about the cost, which seemed to be based on the price of a similar item fetched.”This meaningful but very inexpensive brooch is made of remains of Russian missiles, decorated by flowers made of titanium dioxide and bronze, by genius Ukrainian artist Stanislav Drokin from daily attacked Kharkiv,” she tweeted Friday.

“The value of materials is less than 1 dollar. The meaning of this brooch which turns Russian aggression and our Ukrainian pain into resilience and creation, has no limits. And so does our gratitude to American people supporting us 3 difficult years for Kharkiv, Ukraine and world.”

The value of materials is not, of course, the entire issue. The materials are not what was delivered; a finished piece of jewelry is what was delivered. This is like pointing out that a certain medication contains five dollars worth of raw materials — not taking into account that it is the development and production of the medication that is expensive.

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The Ukrainian ambassador is not new to controversy.

Markarova’s position as ambassador became tenuous in September when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited a Scranton, Pa., ammunition plant at the height of the election campaign between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) demanded that Zelensky “immediately fire” Markarova for organizing the trip featuring Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro.

“The facility was in a politically contested battleground state, was led by a top political surrogate for Kamala Harris, and failed to include a single Republican because — on purpose — no Republicans were invited,” Johnson said at the time.

Of course, no Republicans were invited — because it was a campaign event, organized by an agent of a foreign government.

One hand washes the other, as the saying goes.