Trump's 2021 letter to Biden disclosed in new memoir
Former President Joe Biden's forthcoming book, Promise Me, America, also recounts Trump's friendly tone after the 2024 election.
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What happened
In his forthcoming memoir, Promise Me, America, former President Joe Biden writes that Donald Trump has damaged the country and world. Biden also says Trump's Jan. 6 actions should follow him to his grave, and that Trump's tone at their 2024 meeting bordered on fawning. The book discloses a 2021 letter in which Trump privately praised Biden as he left office.
Why it matters
Biden writes that Trump's administration is determined to tear down institutions and inflame hatreds.
Timeline
- Nov 9, 7:18 AM ET: Biden writes in his White House memoir that Trump has deeply damaged the country and world.
- Nov 9, 8:54 AM ET: Biden says Trump's Jan. 6 actions should follow him to his grave and that Trump bordered on fawning at their meeting after the 2024 election.
- Nov 10, 3:07 PM ET: Trump's private message to Biden, written in a letter left as he departed office in January 2021, is revealed in the memoir.
Coverage
- A note to ‘46’: Donald Trump’s private message to Joe Biden emerges in new White House memoir (The Washington Post)
- NYT: Trump wished Biden well in newly disclosed 2021 letter (applevalleynewsnow.com)
- Biden says Trump’s Jan. 6 actions ‘should follow him to his grave’ (NBC News)
- Trump told Biden they’d be ‘good friends’ if not for politics, ex-president reveals (Yahoo News)
- Joe Biden, in White House memoir, says Trump should carry the weight of Jan. 6 riots 'to his grave' (wsls.com)
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