President Donald Trump confirmed on Tuesday that former President Joe Biden left him a “very good letter’ that he discovered within the Resolute Desk on the White Home on Monday evening.
In response to Fox Information, Trump was requested about Biden’s letter throughout a press convention relating to the announcement of a $500 billion funding in synthetic intelligence infrastructure.
Trump instructed reporters that Biden wrote him a “good letter,” which he learn on Monday evening.
“The letter is form of a practice,” Trump stated. “You place it within the drawer, particularly of the gorgeous Resolute Desk, proper? And I opened the drawer, and there it was. It stated, ‘To quantity 47,’ and it was a really good letter. I imply, I may present it as a result of I feel it was a pleasant letter. Perhaps I’ll.”
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Requested concerning the content material of Biden’s letter, Trump instructed reporters, “It was a bit little bit of an inspirational-type letter. Get pleasure from it, do an excellent job. Vital, essential. How essential the job is.”
“I feel I ought to let folks see it as a result of it was a optimistic for him in writing it,” Trump added. “I appreciated the letter.”
Whereas Trump was signing govt orders and addressing members of the press on Monday night on the Oval Workplace within the White Home, Peter Doocy, a Fox Information correspondent, requested whether or not Biden had left him a letter as a part of a presidential custom in the US.
“He might have,” Trump instructed Doocy. “Wait, don’t they depart it within the desk? I don’t know.”
After pulling out a drawer of the Resolute Desk, Trump held up a white envelope and stated, “Thanks, Peter. It may have been years earlier than we discovered this factor.”
Trump then teased the White Home reporters, saying, “Perhaps we should always all learn it collectively,” earlier than including, “Effectively, perhaps I’ll learn it first after which make that dedication.”
Fox Information reported that whereas the custom of U.S. presidents leaving a letter for his or her successor within the White Home has continued since 1989, Biden is the primary president to have left a letter for somebody who was his predecessor however can be his successor.
