Joe and Jill Biden reported earning $15.6 million from book deals and speaking engagements since leaving the White House
The couple reported earning $11 million immediately after leaving the White House in 2017 and $4.5 million in 2018. Their tax returns showed they paid $5.2 million in federal taxes between those two years.
Their main sources of income were from book deals they signed after leaving the White House and dozens of speaking engagements, with Joe Biden regularly charging six figures for a single speech.
For decades, Biden's nickname was "Middle Class Joe," and he drew on his humble roots from growing up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, a working-class city, to connect with blue-collar voters.
A June report in The Washington Post found that in addition to the two homes they own in Delaware, the Bidens rent a 12,000-square-foot estate in McLean, Virginia.
Former Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, former second lady Jill Biden, reported earning over $15 million since leaving the White House, according to financial disclosures and tax returns filed on Tuesday.
The disclosures show that since 2017, both Bidens signed lucrative book deals, with Joe Biden earning anywhere from $8,000 to $90,000 for book-tour stops to promote his 2017 memoir, "Promise Me, Dad," and continued to earn royalties from his New York Times bestselling 2008 book, "Promises to Keep."
The couple reported earning $11 million immediately after leaving the White House in 2017 and $4.5 million in 2018. Their tax returns showed they paid $5.2 million in federal taxes between those two years, NBC reported.
In addition to a position at the University of Pennsylvania that carried an annual salary of $400,000, Biden regularly brought in six figures from a single paid speech, earning between $66,000 and $182,679 per speech for 18 speeches he gave in 2017 and 2018….cont.
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Speaking engagements is another way they get huge kickbacks.
Being named to various Board of Directors and being paid and given stock shares is another.