Donald Trump says he left a letter written 'from the heart' to Joe Biden before leaving the White House

The recent elections that ultimately decided Joe Biden as the winner was also met with a bitter transition period due to then-outgoing President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede and spreading of false claims of fraud. In the podcast of conservative commentator Lisa Boothe, the former president said he wrote a heartfelt letter to his successor before leaving the White House.

Trump was a guest at Boothe’s podcast, “The Truth with Lisa Boothe,” where he revealed that he wrote a letter to Biden prior to leaving the White House in January. While he did not disclose any details from the letter to his successor, Trump said that he wished Biden well and wanted him to succeed.

However, the former president also repeated his claim of a “rigged election” and voter fraud. Biden previously revealed that Trump had written him a “very generous letter” as well and said he would not talk about the contents of the letter unless Trump would make mention of it.

“Basically I wished him luck and it was a couple of pages long and it was from the heart because I wanted to see him do well,” said Trump. “He’s there. It’s a rigged election and I would never concede.”

The former president also talked about being away from social media, hinting that he may start his own platform, as his aide Jason Miller previously revealed. Trump was permanently banned from almost all major social media platforms, especially Twitter, following the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol. The former president since then would release statements that would be similar in tone to his Twitter posts, which Trump said made it more elegant.

While Twitter appears to make clear that it has no intention of lifting the ban on Trump, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has expressed concerns about the former president’s permanent suspension from the platform. Speaking on The Ezra Klein Show, Sanders was pressed on whether he thinks there is truth to the claim that liberals have become very keen on censoring opinions and products that offend them through the use of their cultural and political power.

“Look, you have a former president in Trump, who was a racist, a sexist, a xenophobe, a pathological liar, an authoritarian, somebody who doesn’t believe in the rule of law. This is a bad-news guy,” said the Vermont lawmaker. “But if you’re asking me, do I feel particularly comfortable that the then-president of the United States could not express his views on Twitter? I don’t feel comfortable about that.”