House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) reportedly spoke regularly with former President Barack Obama and came away with her own assessment of his relationship with President Joe Biden.
Fox News obtained an excerpt of the new book, “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future” by Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin, describing the conversation.
According to the book, Obama had “complicated feelings” about Biden being in the Oval Office.
The book reported the former president and Biden spoke by phone “occasionally” at the beginning of his presidency and their conversations were “hardly the stuff of the tight brotherhood both men had sold to the country as a cheery political fable.”
The authors explained Pelosi, who spoke regularly with Obama, “came away from her conversations with Obama during this period with a matter-of-fact diagnosis. She told a friend: ‘Obama is jealous of Biden.'”
Biden’s adviser reported the president said, “I am confident that Barack is not happy with the coverage of this administration as more transformative than his,” as the book explains.
Politico noted White House officials have been attempting to get a copy of the book for weeks to discover the extent of revelations that are potentially damaging.
Deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said in a statement, “We respect that there will be no shortage of books written about the administration containing a wide variety of claims. We don’t plan to engage in confirmations or denials when it comes to the specifics of those claims.”
Additionally, according to Politico, the authors explored Obama’s reaction to the not so flattering comparisons between his administration’s and Biden’s.
“The former president felt [Biden aides and congressional Democrats like Senate Majority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER (D-N.Y.)] were unfairly disparaging his record,” the authors wrote.
They continued, “Obama did not think he and his team had been played for fools by Republican senators, nor did he think the stimulus law he negotiated was such an obvious failure. You know, he told one former administration official, it was a different world in 2009.”
