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 .
Congress later completed the certification, and Biden was inaugurated two weeks later. The political crisis culminated on January 6, 2021, when Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol as Congress met to certify Biden’s Electoral College victory. Since returning to office, Trump has continued to dispute the 2020 election and granted pardons to more than 1,000 people convicted or charged over the Capitol riot.
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. Biden wrote that reading the note left him surprised because it differed so sharply from Trump’s public rhetoric, according to excerpts obtained by The New York Times.
Biden’s Promise Me, America, is scheduled for release next week.
“Joe Biden should have heeded the president’s wise words, but instead he tried to destroy this country and weaponize the justice system against his political enemies,” Cheung said in a statement. He added, “Biden is a disgrace, and America is better off with him no longer as president.”
