‘We’d be friends if it weren't for politics': Biden recounts Trump's message after 2024 bid in new memoir

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In his memoir “Promise Me, America”, Biden wrote about a letter from Trump containing some rare words of appreciation after a fiercely-contested 2024 election. | World News

"You know, Joe, if it weren't for politics, I believe we'd be good friends," former US President Joe Biden quoted his successor Donald Trump as saying as he recalled a message from him following the 2024 presidential elections. Biden detailed his interaction with Trump in ‘Promise Me, America’, his forthcoming memoir.

While he launched a sharp attack on Trump for denying the results of the 2020 presidential election and his role in the US Capitol riots in 2021, he also mentioned another side of Trump, where the latter stunned Biden with rare warm words.

Biden defended his time in the White House in his 480-page memoir, while describing his decision to run for re-election in 2024, his ultimate decision to drop out of the race to allow Kamala Harris to run for president, and his frustration with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the Israel-Hamas war that began on October 7, 2023.

The former president, battling stage 4 prostate cancer, also stood by his administration's efforts to battle the Covid-19 pandemic and the controversial military withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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Biden, who had long been Trump's bitter political rival, opened the book by launching a scathing attack on the current president's role in the US Capitol riots on January 6, 2021. Biden accused Trump of leading an insurrection, describing it as among the "worst derelictions of duty by any president in our history", according to excerpts of the book seen by the Wall Street Journal.

However, Biden noted that after arriving in the White House, he found a "magnanimous" letter from Trump containing some rare words of appreciation months after fierce attacks during the presidential campaign. "It was almost as if there were two Donald Trumps," Biden wrote in his book.

The letter was written on January 20, 2021, the day Biden took office as the 46th president.

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