from my 1:50am post...
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According to federal and state tax returns, the Bidens earned about $11 million in 2017 and $4.58 million in 2018. About $13.2 million of that was attributable to book payments.
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Your OP link described the payout from the Chinese CEFC deal as occurring in 2017...therefore, I posted the $11M figure from JB's tax return in that year for comparison purposes...add on 2018's $4.8M and you get what the article rounded off to...$15M...is this starting to make sense to you?
Some friendly advice...spend more time on the content and context of other's posts, and less on grasping for "gotchas"...
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