Former President Joe Biden issued scathing criticism of President Donald Trump in his forthcoming memoir, saying his actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol “should follow him to his grave.”
\n\nBiden’s comments, published as a book excerpt in The Atlantic on Monday, mark some of his strongest criticism of Trump since the former president left office.
\n\nIn the excerpt, Biden says Trump “led an insurrection” and slammed his decision to issue sweeping pardons of Jan. 6 defendants.
\n\n“The criminals who attacked law-enforcement officers that day didn’t deserve pardons,” Biden wrote. “They deserved prison terms.”
\n\nThe former president added that Trump and the president’s supporters “continue to preen and posture like they’re supporters of law enforcement.”
\n\n“Here’s my view: You don’t get to turn a blind eye to cops being punched, speared, sprayed, and brutalized and call yourself a friend of law enforcement,” he wrote. “What Trump did on January 6, 2021, should never be forgotten. It should follow him to his grave.”
\n\nNBC News has reached out to the White House for comment on the book excerpt. The memoir, “Promise Me, America,” is set to be published on Nov. 17.
\n\nIn a September interview with Time magazine…
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