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BumRushDaShow

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Mon Nov 11, 2024, 08:26 AM Nov 11

Biden's White House invitation to Trump continues a tradition Trump shunned in 2020

Source: ABC News/AP

November 11, 2024, 12:02 AM


WASHINGTON -- Before he comes back for good on Inauguration Day, Donald Trump will return to the White House briefly at the invitation of Democratic President Joe Biden, who had hoped to defeat his Republican predecessor a second time and reside there for four more years. That may make for an awkward encounter, especially given that, after Biden ousted Trump in 2020, Trump offered no such White House invitation to Biden. Trump even left Washington before the Jan. 20, 2021, inauguration, becoming the first president to do so since Andrew Johnson skipped the 1869 swearing-in of Ulysses S. Grant.

Biden also has the unusual distinction of having beaten Trump in one cycle and run against him for about 15 months during this year’s campaign. As he sought reelection, Biden constantly decried Trump as a threat to democracy and the nation’s core values before leaving the race in July and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, who took on her own campaign and lost on Election Day.

When the two meet in the Oval Office on Wednesday, it’ll technically be the first time since 1992 that an outgoing president sits down with an incoming one he competed against in a campaign. Back then, Republican President George H.W. Bush met with Democrat and President-elect Bill Clinton about two weeks after they squared off on Election Day.

Bush and Clinton talked policy before going together to the Roosevelt Room to meet with their transition staff. Clinton later called the meeting “terrific” and said Bush was “very helpful.” Over the decades, such handoff meetings between outgoing presidents and their replacements have been by turns friendly, tense and somewhere in between.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/bidens-white-house-invitation-trump-continues-tradition-trump-115723296

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Biden's White House invitation to Trump continues a tradition Trump shunned in 2020 (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Nov 11 OP
Unless theyre trying to give him a false sense of security, quit acting as if Karadeniz Nov 11 #1
I'm sure Trump will make a complete ass of himself. underpants Nov 11 #2
Now's your chance, Joe. :) lostnfound Nov 11 #3
Would black-bagging and whisking a known national security threat off to Guantanamo be considered an "official act"? LudwigPastorius Nov 11 #4

Karadeniz

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1. Unless theyre trying to give him a false sense of security, quit acting as if
Mon Nov 11, 2024, 08:45 AM
Nov 11

someone who rigged a fake win should be given the treatments accorded a legitimate winner.

LudwigPastorius

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4. Would black-bagging and whisking a known national security threat off to Guantanamo be considered an "official act"?
Mon Nov 11, 2024, 02:31 PM
Nov 11

Asking for an elderly friend.

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