The White House released the 2022 financial disclosures for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, including their outside sources of income.
Corruption at the federal level has remained in the spotlight of late, especially within the executive branch as the House Oversight Committee’s investigation of Biden’s alleged influence peddling has heated up and the release of the Durham Report highlighted failings by the FBI. Monday, the administration and corporate media portrayed the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) certified disclosures as proof that there was nothing foul afoot.
“These public filings help to prevent financial conflicts of interest by providing transparency about the assets of government officials,” said the White House release that listed the assets of the president and first lady Jill Biden as anywhere between $1.05 million and $2.58 million.
In addition to his presidential salary and her earnings from teaching at Northern Virginia Community College, the Bidens garnered meager royalties from his 2007 memoir “Promises to Keep,” less than $201, and somewhere between $2,501 and $5,000 for his 2017 memoir “Promise Me, Dad.”
Royalties for Jill Biden’s books, speaking and writing engagements, and interest were also listed in vague ranges, but it what wasn’t listed that outlets like The Washington Post treated as exoneration.
“Biden’s financial disclosures do not show evidence of foreign income sources. He has said the GOP claims that foreign nationals have routed his family money are false,” the Post reported.
It is stellar logic like that which concludes “gun-free zone” signs will actually prevent mass murder from happening.
As previously reported, the investigations against Biden related to the alleged “influence peddling scheme” found that the Biden family and business associates had created more than 20 LLCs through which more than $10 million from foreign nationals had been funneled, a detail the Justice Department has seemingly let go unchecked.
House Oversight chair accuses Biden family of ‘influence peddling scheme’: ‘The DOJ needs to get off its ass and investigate’ https://t.co/QJTcBwr2jj pic.twitter.com/2fMxHEYBER
— BPR (@BIZPACReview) May 13, 2023
Those concerns were brushed aside as the White House touted transparency in the disclosures while glossing over the detail that failing to release them would be a violation of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 which requires all high-level federal officials to make their personal financial interests public.
Meanwhile, the disclosures for Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff found the couple to have a personal wealth tallied between $3.42 million and $8.29 million which included more than $40,000 in royalties for the 2019 children’s book “SuperHeroes Are Everywhere” and nearly as much for the 2019 memoir “The Truths We Hold.”
The disclosures also included monies owed from the couples with Harris and Emhoff reportedly having between $1 and $5 million remaining on their home’s mortgage and the Biden’s owing between $250,000 and $500,000 on their Delaware home. Other loans were listed between $30,000 and $100,000 owed by the first couple.
The earnings were well in line with the voluntary April release of the Bidens’ tax returns that showed them to be worth an estimated $9 million and were further considered as proof that the House Oversight Committee’s investigation was for naught.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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