# Joe Biden's New Book: Promise Me, America **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 9, 2026, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-bidens-new-book-promise-me-america/1034729 "2026-11-09T14:09:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2026, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-bidens-new-book-promise-me-america/1034729/1 "2026-11-09T14:09:54Z")
Joe Biden’s new book Promise Me, America will be published November 17. > **[Joe Biden, in White House memoir, says Trump should carry the weight of Jan....](https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-memoir-dc7244f93b0c98d976c14bf0710b0aaf)** > > Former U.S. President Joe Biden writes in his White House memoir that Donald Trump has deeply damaged the country and world with an administration determined to “tear down institutions and inflame hatreds.” There is an excerpt published in the Atlantic: > **[Biden: What Trump Did on January 6 ‘Should Follow Him to His Grave’](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/11/biden-trump-democracy-elections/689343/)** > > In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, the former president calls on Americans to defend their democracy. Any thoughts if this memoir will have much readership or will quickly sail into oblivion considering that lots of Democrats place a substantial part of the blame for Trump’s reelection on Biden? ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2026, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-bidens-new-book-promise-me-america/1034729/2 "2026-11-09T14:15:41Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > much readership Depends on value of “much” … He has his fans and has a perspective. But Biden saying what we all know about Trump, and probably not taking ownership of how he and his own ego contributed to Trump’s second election, is not likely to be a must read. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2026, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-bidens-new-book-promise-me-america/1034729/3 "2026-11-09T14:18:33Z")
I’m not sure to what extent anyone would be that interested in Biden’s memoirs in general, but I _am_ pretty sure everyone reading his assertion that Trump should be held responsible for the January 6 insurrection is going to come to the same conclusion, which is “Why didn’t you fucking do something about it, then?” ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2026, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-bidens-new-book-promise-me-america/1034729/4 "2026-11-10T23:02:41Z")
I think it would be interesting, given the sheer number of years in government he could discuss, as well as the _changes_ seen over that time. I think that Biden _wanted_ a return to the status quo after his election, and felt “surely, we can do that” and was rather willfully blind that NO, no we can’t. ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2026, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-bidens-new-book-promise-me-america/1034729/6 "2026-11-10T23:29:04Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > “Why didn’t you fucking do something about it, then?” Because, Democrats. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2026, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-bidens-new-book-promise-me-america/1034729/7 "2026-11-11T05:44:49Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > January 6 insurrection is going to come to the same conclusion, which is “Why didn’t you fucking do something about it, then?” What could he do? Remember, Republican Congress. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2026, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-bidens-new-book-promise-me-america/1034729/11 "2026-11-11T10:53:57Z")
Was his DoJ “Republican”? ---
**Author:** ![JDYanYan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jdyanyan/32/21663_2.png) [@JDYanYan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JDYanYan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2026, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-bidens-new-book-promise-me-america/1034729/12 "2026-11-11T12:03:11Z")
No. Just Justice Ailleen Cannon, Thomas Alito, John Roberts, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney-Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, and the supreme court of Georgia. Trump has indictments and court dates set throughout 2024 and Republican Justices were happy to subvert all reasonable legal precedent on his behalf. Spending as much time as possible before dropping the “president’s are immune to prosecution for official acts” in the Summer before the election. The existence of this administration and its excesses have only happened because partisan Republicans have intervened on his behalf over and over again. Starting with the Hillary “email” announcement on election eve, and following through McConnell’s refusal to convict after both impeachments, and going all the way through a few days ago where a judge permitted Trump’s bs lawsuit against the BBC to take place in Florida because someone watched on a VPN. Joe Biden deserves blame for not knowing his own body and how fatigued he’d be running for president as president. But if Biden had appointed an AG whose mandate was indicting Republicans responsible for January 6th, it would not have prevented the same partisan court interventions on DJT’s behalf. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2026, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-bidens-new-book-promise-me-america/1034729/13 "2026-11-11T14:24:09Z")
True. OTHER people involved _did_ get indicted and even convicted (only to get pardoned later) but _Trump himself_ was protected. Partly, yes, by the administration’s own decision to meticulously dot every i and cross every t so as to avoid looking vengeful or partisan but also by so many courts bending over backwards to not put hands on a former POTUS and grant him every dilatory motion, and the Republicans in Congress being cowards. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2026, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-bidens-new-book-promise-me-america/1034729/14 "2026-11-11T14:27:45Z")
> [@JDYanYan](#): > > The existence of this administration and its excesses have only happened because partisan Republicans have intervened on his behalf over and over again. Starting with the Hillary “email” announcement on election eve.. Excellent post, but I’d argue that it went back further than that. When Obama wanted to put out a bipartisan statement condemning Russian meddling in the 2016 election, Mitch “Just die already” McConnell rejected the idea, and threatened to assert that Obama was interfering in the election if he said anything. [https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/24/580171396/biden-mcconnell-refused-to-sign-bipartisan-statement-on-russian-interference](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/24/580171396/biden-mcconnell-refused-to-sign-bipartisan-statement-on-russian-interference)