Former President Joe Biden detailed his 2024 presidential transition meeting with President Donald Trump in an excerpt of his new book released Monday, describing how Trump was “buttering [him] up” at the White House that day.

“You know, Joe, if it weren’t for politics, I believe we’d be good friends,” Trump told Biden that day, according to Biden’s account teased in the Monday excerpt.

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