‘I know how much you love the American people,’ Trump told Biden in 2021 letter

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Trump’s 2021 letter to Biden is revealed in a new book, showing warm words that contrast with their bitter political feud. Read more at straitstimes.com.

In his new book, “Promise Me, America,” Joe Biden reprints the letter in full, according to an excerpt obtained by The New York Times.

WASHINGTON – In his first week in office, President Joe Biden told reporters that his immediate predecessor, Donald Trump, had left him a “very generous letter” in the Oval Office. Since then, Biden has refused to discuss the contents.

But in his new book, “Promise Me, America,” Biden reprints the letter in full, according to an excerpt obtained by The New York Times. The Times also reviewed a photocopy of the original letter, which was dated Jan 20, 2021, and left in an envelope addressed “To ‘46’” – a reference to Biden’s status as the 46th president.

The letter, written on White House stationery with Trump’s signature black Sharpie, is a remarkable document for how discordant it is with Trump’s public comments about Biden and the 2020 presidential election. Trump did not criticize Biden or challenge the results of the election.

Instead, he wrote almost poetically about his experience working in the White House and how he believed that Biden “will be true to yourself and the American people.”

“Many presidents have come and gone who simply governed as Republicans or Democrats,” Trump wrote. “Largely, they did not change history, they were just swept along in its relentless tide. This will not happen to you because I know how much you love the American people.”

In his book, which will be released on Nov 17, Biden, 83, writes that it was “as if there were two Donald Trumps.” He says Trump “deeply destabilized our democracy” and had “not offered the traditional meeting between presidents.”

“But here he was, offering his best wishes in warm language that sounded like it was coming from an old friend,” Biden writes.

During the 2020 campaign, Trump attacked Biden relentlessly. He called him “the worst candidate” in American history, warned that his election would unleash violence across US cities, questioned his mental faculties and accused him…

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