Posted on 10/31/2024 7:00:19 PM PDT by DoodleBob
White House press officials altered the official transcript of a call in which President Joe Biden appeared to take a swipe at supporters of Donald Trump, drawing objections from the federal workers who document such remarks for posterity, according to two U.S. government officials and an internal email obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.
Biden created an uproar earlier this week with his remarks to Latino activists responding to racist comments at a Trump rally made by the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who referred to the U.S. island territory of Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”
Biden, according to a transcript prepared by the official White House stenographers, told the Latino group on a Tuesday evening video call, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.” The transcript released by the White House press office, however, rendered the quote with an apostrophe, reading “supporter's" rather than “supporters,” which aides said pointed to Biden criticizing Hinchcliffe, not the millions of Americans who are supporting Trump for president. The change was made after the press office “conferred with the president,” according to an internal email from the head of the stenographers' office that was obtained by The AP. The authenticity of the email was confirmed by two government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.
The supervisor, in the email, called the press office's handling of the matter “a breach of protocol and spoilation of transcript integrity between the Stenography and Press Offices.”
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that is a crime, and is the 4th reason he should be impeached
Sounds like we should discuss this topic for another day or two.
Wait the associated depressed posted this dang
Ya. They hate us.
These bastards are so EEEEVILLL that they can do whatever they want without shame or consequences or a conscience because they are never ever held accountable…..we are their subjects their slaves to do with us as they will. But this must stop! If we fail to stop it November 5 then we deserve what we get! This effing Cabal needs to be destroyed once and for all! This is how evil they are I hear the J6 prisoners are being denied the right to vote…thought some law was passed to let prisoners vote. I know God is watching and will vindicate those who were wrongly incarcerated. Mark my words as soon as Trump gets in those prisoners go free!
The Case Of The Phantom Apostrophe. Trump has to be to blame somehow...
They stole the election and got away with it. They think they are bulletproof but then again so did Al Capone at one point. Whether now or later the truth will eventually all come out and justice if not here on earth then beyond will happen.
So when do the impeachment hearings begin..oh wait a dem did it so it’s fine moving on
For the AP to cover this, to me, it means things aren’t going well in the Harris camp or the WH now.
House Republicans, meanwhile, were debating launching an investigation into the matter. House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., on Wednesday accused White House staff of “releasing a false transcript” of Biden’s remarks.
In a letter to White House counsel Ed Siskel on Wednesday, they called on the administration to retain documents and internal communications related to Biden’s remarks and the release of the transcript.
“White House staff cannot rewrite the words of the President of the United States to be more politically on message,” the lawmakers wrote to Siskel.
Stefanik and Comer said the action could be in violation of the Presidential Records Act of 1978.
Nina Jankowicz argues that understanding these attacks is crucial for defending democracies and preserving civil discourse and democracy, as well as the value of truth itself.
She looks like she just attended a Bill Clinton rally.
Looking forward to MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC and various Democrat outlets apologizing for their acceptance of the Biden rewrite.
Biden and family entire life is about altered records.
Millions of times
Keeping up the hassle is important, regardless of where this process goes.
I call it “apostrophe-gate”.
Catchy, right?
Lol.
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