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President Donald Trump, who for years questioned his 2020 election defeat and publicly claimed the result had been stolen by Democrats, privately praised incoming President Joe Biden as someone who "will be true to himself and to the American people."
That sentiment, along with others, was part of the letter Trump left for Biden when he left office in January 2021. Biden showed the note to some members of his team after his 2021 inauguration, but did not let anyone read it; later that same day he described it as "very generous," though otherwise stated he considered it private.
The inclusion of the letter in "Promise Me, America," Biden's memoir about his time in the White House, scheduled for publication on November 17, was first reported Tuesday by The New York Times. The Associated Press reviewed a photocopy of the two-page letter, handwritten in Trump's signature black Sharpie on White House stationery and addressed "To '46'," alluding to Biden's place as the 46th president of the United States.
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"Many presidents have come and gone who simply governed as Republicans or Democrats," Trump wrote. "To a large extent, they did not change history; they were simply swept along by its relentless tide. This will not happen to you because I know how much you love the American people."
At the time of the transition, it was said that Biden was surprised by how kind he found the letter, given the animosity between the political rivals. Trump, for instance, refused to attend Biden's inauguration and to host the incoming president and first lady for tea at the White House.
Trump has said he felt it was up to Biden to share the letter; he called it "a nice note" during a September 2023 interview with NBC's "Meet the Press," adding: "I took a long time thinking about it."
Elsewhere in the memoir, the first excerpt of which was published Monday by The Atlantic, Biden wrote about the deep damage Trump has inflicted, with an administration determined to "tear down institutions and stoke hatreds."
Lamenting Trump's Department of Government Efficiency and his aggressive reversal of many of his policies, Biden decried Trump's "dismissive and destructive nature," and described him as someone "incapable of tolerating the idea of building on the achievements of others rather than tearing them down."
But Biden's harshest characterization focused on Trump's role in the assault on the Capitol as Congress met to certify the 2020 election, which Biden had won. Writing that Trump "led an insurrection," Biden stated that Trump's "goal" was to remain in power even though the American people voted to remove him.
"What Trump did on January 6, 2021, must never be forgotten," Biden wrote. "It should haunt him to his grave."
Asked for comment on both the letter and Biden's memoir, White House communications director Steven Cheung called the former president "a disgrace" who "should have heeded the president's wise words, but instead tried to destroy this country and politicize the justice system."
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