Wire reporting: (AP, via FOX 8 Cleveland)

Former President Joe Biden writes in a new memoir that Donald Trump's role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol should stay with him for the rest of his life, according to excerpts published Monday^1,5.

The book, Promise Me, America, is scheduled for release Nov. 17^1,5. The Atlantic published the first excerpt^1,5.

ABC News quoted Biden writing, "What Trump did on January 6, 2021, should never be forgotten. It should follow him to his grave"¹.

ABC News said Biden denounces first-day pardons and clemency for Jan. 6 defendants and says Trump did not hold a formal ceremony honoring officers who defended the Capitol¹. ABC also said Biden describes Trump as desperate to hang on to power after the 2020 election¹.

ABC News said Biden recounts a nearly two-hour Oval Office meeting with then President-elect Trump in November 2024, after Trump defeated Kamala Harris, and that Biden described the tone as unusually friendly¹.

The AP account of the same excerpt places that meeting days after the 2020 election, well before Jan. 6⁵. The outlets therefore differ on when Biden says the conversation occurred^1,5.

Biden, 83, is promoting the book while undergoing cancer treatment; the AP said he wrote Sunday that doctors are encouraged by his response but that he will do fewer conversations about the book than he had hoped⁵. ABC News did not lead with that health note¹.

ABC News said the excerpt objects to a 2024 Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity¹. The AP said Biden also criticizes second-term climate-policy reversals and the Department of Government Efficiency⁵. Trump's White House had not issued a response in the reports reviewed Monday^1,5.