Biden reveals Trump’s private 2021 White House letter praising his leadership in new memoir: Report

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Former President Joe Biden has disclosed the contents of the private letter Donald Trump left for him before departing the White House in 2021.

Former US President Joe Biden has revealed the contents of the private letter Donald Trump left for him in the Oval Office before leaving the White House in January 2021, according to an excerpt of the book and a copy of the letter obtained by The New York Times.

The letter offered a rare glimpse into a cordial exchange that contrasted sharply with Trump’s public rejection of the 2020 election results.

The letter, reproduced in Biden’s upcoming memoir Promise Me, America, contains warm wishes from Trump, who encouraged his successor to lead the nation with confidence despite the bitter political divisions surrounding the presidential transition.

The letter had remained private for nearly six years. Biden had previously acknowledged receiving a “very generous letter” but declined to reveal its contents.

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Biden's Promise Me, America, is scheduled for release next week. According to excerpts obtained by The New York Times, Biden wrote that reading the note left him surprised because it differed so sharply from Trump’s public rhetoric.

“It was as if there were two Donald Trumps,” Biden wrote in the memoir.

Biden argued that Trump “deeply destabilized democracy” during and after the 2020 election. Yet he says the private note “sounded like it was coming from an old friend.”

The letter was written on January 20, 2021, the day Biden took office as the 46th president. Trump departed Washington that morning and became the first outgoing president in more than 150 years to skip his successor’s inauguration.

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