How Joe Biden went from ‘one of the
poorest’ in Congress to a millionaire
New York Post,
by
Isabel Vincent
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
1/25/2023 5:08:06 AM
When Joe Biden was a US senator he referred to himself as “one of the poorest members” of Congress. But his fortunes rose precipitously following his years as vice-president, thanks to a flurry of cash from book deals and speeches — as well as regular kickbacks from his brother and youngest son, according to text messages from Hunter Biden’s laptop and a congressional probe.
In 2016, his last year as vice-president, “middle class Joe” reported between $291,000 and about $1 million in assets and income outside his vice-presidential salary of $230,700.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
FJB 2022 23 24 1/25/2023 5:37:22 AM (No. 1386677)
Graft, fraud and probably blackmail, equal Joe Biden and his financial rise.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 1/25/2023 5:39:27 AM (No. 1386678)
The article is nonsense. Biden is worth probably hundreds of millions, that's what 10% of billions comes out to.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 1/25/2023 6:26:28 AM (No. 1386706)
Willy Sutton the bank robber was a fool. He should have gone into government.....that’s where the real money is.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 1/25/2023 6:44:54 AM (No. 1386711)
Grifting pays, just ask Lame Duck
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 1/25/2023 7:32:41 AM (No. 1386739)
Joe Biden may have lots of money, but he is still poor and likely will remain so.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
stablemoney 1/25/2023 7:36:57 AM (No. 1386746)
I do not believe Joe's bank deposits will equal the income he reported on his tax returns.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
walcb 1/25/2023 7:39:47 AM (No. 1386749)
The grounds at the Greenville place looks like crap. You would think they could invest in some fertilizer and a watering system.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bpl40 1/25/2023 7:58:44 AM (No. 1386770)
Joe is dishonest, corrupt, greedy. So are 534 others. I am willing to accept personal avarice as unavoidable in public officials. But the damage he has done to this country in short order by agreeing to be a tool of an America hating left wing cabal is incalculable and unforgivable. In another day and age he would face the same fate as Mussolini. And Dr. Jill that of his mistress Petachi.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
felixcat 1/25/2023 8:25:11 AM (No. 1386788)
And yet Donald Trump lost money when he got elected as President. The Clintons, Obamas, Carters to a much lesser degree, etc all got very wealthy from their "public service."
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
broken01 1/25/2023 8:41:18 AM (No. 1386807)
Selling out my beloved country to foreign actors pays very well it seems.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/25/2023 8:54:33 AM (No. 1386814)
It's called influence peddling.
The people doing the spending control both parties, and they control Washington.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mifla 1/25/2023 8:57:21 AM (No. 1386817)
Yet another "public servant" who became a millionaire.
I pray to God that all his corruption comes to light.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
czechlist 1/25/2023 8:59:54 AM (No. 1386819)
As I recall when he was running for prez back in '08 it was joked that his lack of wealth indicated he was either a lousy politician or an incredibly honest one.
That's been cleared up now.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
janjan 1/25/2023 9:34:13 AM (No. 1386850)
I’d like to see a list of how many elected officials came into office with small bank accounts and became millionaires. The list is long. Starting with bribery, kickbacks, and insider trading. They don’t all end up running our foreign policy but they’re all corrupt.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
pmcclure 1/25/2023 9:41:18 AM (No. 1386860)
The Bidens are utterly evil.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Venturer 1/25/2023 10:20:03 AM (No. 1386901)
One word describes how Biden got rich------corruption.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/25/2023 10:26:57 AM (No. 1386906)
Same old story, for all of them. The longer they spend "serving America" the richer they get.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Zigrid 1/25/2023 11:35:21 AM (No. 1386957)
I wonder how ole Joe will explain his life at the Pearly Gates....no scripted notes to follow and no fake news to spin his lies....he's like Bernie baby who owns four houses and complains that the rich need to pay more taxes...hypocrits....
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
EQKimball 1/25/2023 2:18:55 PM (No. 1387098)
If your drug-addled son had immediate access to American state secrets, you could be rich, too. If you were President, you might also be motivated to keep the supply of them coming. Of course, that would be treason, but your political party would have a long history of denying, defending, and excusing treachery, including Algier Hiss, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, Jane Fonda, Bill Ayers, Angela Davis, the Chicago 7, Daniel Ellsberg, and Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, among others.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
snakeoil 1/25/2023 2:34:01 PM (No. 1387114)
Am ambivalent about Harry Truman. But, I love this quote for Give Em Hell Harry: “Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.”
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Not buying the story about how he was poor in congress. Remember how Hillary used to say that she and Bill were broke as well? Sounds like Biden might have set up some kind of trust that would allow him to claim he had no funds, yet like the Clintons, lived high on that proverbial hog.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
homefry 1/26/2023 8:03:25 AM (No. 1387549)
Harry S. Truman ‘You Can’t Get Rich in Politics Unless You’re a Crook’
United States President Harry S. Truman once said, "You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook."
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