Re: AP sources: White House altered record of Biden's 'garbage' remarks despite stenographer concerns

NoBody <[email protected]> Sat, 02 Nov 2024 09:59:00 -0400
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On Sat, 2 Nov 2024 07:29:14 -0000 (UTC), useapen
<[email protected]> wrote:

>WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 fact that the White House can get away wth altering an official
transcript shows just how far gone our democracy is.