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How Joe Biden Went from Middle-Class Joe to a Millionaire
Town & Country Mag ^ | 5/18/21 | Caroline Hallemann

Posted on 12/23/2023 11:03:56 AM PST by Libloather

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To: Libloather

There’s a military guy in Ukraine who apparently embezzled forty million. The Biden family probably already has their 10%.


21 posted on 12/23/2023 11:43:18 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: Lockbox

“ Joe sold the DuPont house a while ago. I think he current has three house, or two…”
Didn’t Joe acquire the DuPont house shortly after being elected to the Senate in the early 70’s?


22 posted on 12/23/2023 11:47:44 AM PST by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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Laugh Break

The two Bidens reported adjusted gross income of $11 million in 2017 and $4.6 million in 2018.....largely from book deals with Flatiron Books valued at $8 million (per Publishers Weekly).

<><>So how did Flatiron Books report Bidens massive book income on their IRS returns?

<><>And how did Flatiron Books report this expense on their SEC reports?


The two Bidens also earned a sizable income from speaking engagements getting fees ranging from $1000,000 to $190,000.

<><>Its hard to believe anybody would pay to sit through a speech by Joe “pony soldier” Biden.

<><>And Jill reached intellectual nirvana speaking to latinos....calling them “ breakfast burritos.”


REFERENCE BOB MILLER, PRESIDENT AND PUBLISHER
Bob Miller founded Hyperion for Disney in 1990 and was its publisher until 2008; he started Flatiron Books for Macmillan in 2013. He began his career at St. Martin’s Press and has also worked at Delacorte Press, HarperCollins, and Workman. Key titles Miller has acquired for Flatiron to date include What I Know For Sure by Oprah Winfrey, The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost, Promise Me, Dad by President Joe Biden, and The First Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch.


23 posted on 12/23/2023 11:50:56 AM PST by Liz (WRT govt: qualifications for wrecking crews are not as stringent as those for construction crews.)
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To: Libloather

The Bidens have what, a couple dozen shell corporations? There are seven ways to Sunday to bury ill gotten gains in the bowels of one of these companies. How in the hell do they know what Joe Biden actually have stashed away?


24 posted on 12/23/2023 11:57:38 AM PST by fhayek
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Hunter Biden’s “Beautiful Things” memoir is a Sales Bust

By Roger Friedman Showbiz411 April 16, 2021, realclearbooks.com

“Beautiful Things,” the confessional memoir by Presidential ne’er do well son Hunter Biden is a flop after one week.

NPD Book Scan says the book, in Hunter whines about being a drug addict who slept around and has no memory of fathering a child, has sold just 10,000 copies in its first week. For a celebrity book with so much PR, TV appearances, etc, that’s not a lot.

On Amazon, “Beautiful Things” is ranked at number 130 now 177, now 208.

Nevertheless, an early surge of sales based on Biden’s appearance on “CBS Sunday Morning” puts “Beautiful Things” at number 4 on the New York Times Bestseller list that comes out today.

But that will be short lived.

Last week, “Rock Me on the Water,” a terrible book about cultural trends in 1974, hit the list after its “Sunday Morning” plug. It’s gone this week.

Hunter’s TV appearances on CBS were embarrassing. He came off like Eddie Haskell from “Leave it to Beaver”: cloying, unsympathetic, whiny, sycophantic.

Hunter has a sad story, certainly: when he was a child his mother and sister were killed in a car accident. As an adult, his brother died from cancer. So Hunter turned to crack cocaine, slept with his sister-in-law, and fathered a child with a woman he doesn’t remember.

Forget about his questionable business life. The guy is a creep. Instead of honoring his family, he brought them disgrace.


25 posted on 12/23/2023 12:17:34 PM PST by Liz (WRT govt: qualifications for wrecking crews are not as stringent as those for construction crews.)
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To: wjcsux
Thanks to two decades worth of restoration work, Biden transformed this once-abandoned mansion (for which he paid just $185,000 back in 1974) into a sprawling property that he went on to sell for $1.2 million in 1996. That means Biden sold the home for just over $1 million more than the price he originally paid for it. Pretty impressive, right?

So somehow on a $42,500 per year salary as Senator, Joe bought a abandoned mansion, paid for renovations and up grades while raising his family (wife dies 1972 and married Jill 1977)…… Ok, want to buy a bridge?

26 posted on 12/23/2023 12:22:54 PM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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To: Liz
Hunter turned to crack cocaine, slept with his sister-in-law, and fathered a child with a woman he doesn’t remember.

He also, at the same time, slept with his sister-in-law's sister and her underaged daughter.

He was also banging his cousin, who would also fix him up with her friends, but not her Asian friends, because Hunter told her he "didn't like the yellow".


27 posted on 12/23/2023 12:23:20 PM PST by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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To: Libloather

Yep, Joey sold his soul to Satan. He even sold the souls of his ENTIRE FAMILY.

Eternity is a very long time Joey. Enjoy Hell, hope you somehow still believe it was worth it.

Good Catholic my A@@!!!!


28 posted on 12/23/2023 12:26:55 PM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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The Bidens Made Nearly Twice As Much In 2017 Than Previous 19 Years Combined

Michela Tindera, forbes.com,, Jul 10, 2019,12:59pm EDT

Joe Biden’s first year in the private sector proved to be his most lucrative in at least two decades. He and his wife, Jill, earned about $11.1 million in 2017, nearly double their total earnings from 1998 to 2016, which added up to $5.8 million, according to a Forbes analysis of tax returns. The couple brought in another $4.6 million last year.

The bulk of the Bidens’ big payday came from a book deal and speaking engagements. Joe Biden routed his book and speaking payments through a company named CelticCapri Corp., which took in $9.5 million in 2017 and $2.7 million in 2018. His memoir, Promise Me, Dad, came out in November 2017 and has sold over 300,000 copies. On his financial disclosure report, Biden listed 30 book tour events, which paid him a total of $1.8 million, plus another 19 speaking engagements that provided $2.4 million.

PROMOTED

Jill Biden also made big money after her tenure as America’s Second Lady. Her company, Giacoppa, took in about $560,000 in speaking engagement fees.

The Bidens supplemented their income with additional gigs. In February 2017, one month after leaving the White House, Joe Biden took up a role as professor at the University of Pennsylvania, a position that paid him $775,000 in 2017 and 2018. Biden has been on an unpaid leave of absence since announcing his campaign.

The Bidens also donated more money in 2017 than they had over the previous two decades. They gave more than $1 million to 26 charities, including two of their family’s own—the Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children ($150,000) and The Joseph Biden Foundation ($100,000). Those foundations in turn have supported programs on issues like child abuse and LGBTQ equality. From 1998 to 2016, the Bidens gave $70,000—a lot of money, sure, but nothing like what they handed over in 2017.

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The Bidens released their tax returns from 2016 to 2018 Tuesday after making several amendments related to double-counting and deduction errors. They also initially failed to include Biden’s vice president salary for the first few weeks of 2017, according to Biden’s campaign.

In the decade before Biden took office as vice president, the couple’s total earnings averaged about $250,000. More than half of that came from Biden’s U.S. Senate salary. His wife made $60,000 on average from the State of Delaware. In 2005 the couple earned $81,250 from the literary agency Sterling Lord Literistic. Two years later they declared $71,000 in royalties, and the next year $9,563 in audiobook rights.

As Forbes reported in April, the Bidens earned $3.1 million during the eight years that Biden served as vice president, while the Obamas hauled in an estimated $10.8 million over the same period.


Michela Tindera
Staff writer at Forbes. Email me at mtindera@forbes.com and follow me on Twitter @mtindera07.


29 posted on 12/23/2023 12:30:38 PM PST by Liz (WRT govt: qualifications for wrecking crews are not as stringent as those for construction crews.)
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To: dead

EEEEow....


30 posted on 12/23/2023 12:31:24 PM PST by Liz (WRT govt: qualifications for wrecking crews are not as stringent as those for construction crews.)
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To: Libloather

Is the young skull full o' mush author even 21?

31 posted on 12/23/2023 12:32:50 PM PST by simpson96
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32 posted on 12/23/2023 12:34:44 PM PST by Liz (WRT govt: qualifications for wrecking crews are not as stringent as those for construction crews.)
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To: Libloather
How much did you get for your soul, Lunch Bucket Joe?
33 posted on 12/23/2023 12:47:41 PM PST by BraveMan
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To: wjcsux
Fodder for the stupid among us.

Yeah, this is one of the most obviously-planted stories I've ever read. Or skimmed, even.

34 posted on 12/23/2023 1:01:43 PM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: stanne
Might have happened, but, of course nobody showed up to hear him speak.

Like China Joe's deal at U Penn, the "no show" board appointments, all the book deals these traitors get, and Hunter's "art", it's money laundering.

35 posted on 12/23/2023 1:11:43 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Libloather

Agree

***Unpaid speaking engagements*** during this time which are not listed...

Bill Clinton milked that gig long ago but slow Joe found out how it works.


36 posted on 12/23/2023 1:20:29 PM PST by Vaduz (....)
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37 posted on 12/23/2023 1:20:46 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: Liz

How?

Just like Hill and Bill from Arkansas. (aka Clinton Foundation)

Take bribes from every foreign nation who would pay them for a favor.


38 posted on 12/23/2023 2:32:22 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Libloather; All

Comments BUMP! The dunce completely outsmarted America’s best and brightest.

American Crime Family ALERT!


39 posted on 12/23/2023 4:06:11 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Libloather

Every single one of us should lose hope with the Biden admin: Brandon Judd!


40 posted on 12/27/2023 7:15:14 AM PST by Grampa Dave ("Every single one of us should lose hope with the Biden admin": Brandon Judd!!!:)
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