The edit by WH staff was met with ethical concerns by official stenographers.
The White House fraudulently edited an official transcript in an attempt to cover up President Joe Biden calling Republican voters “garbage” on video.
Citing “two U.S. government officials and an internal email,” the Associated Press reported Thursday night that White House officials “altered the official transcript” of Biden’s Tuesday night call with Latino activists, in which the president characterized his predecessor’s supporters as trash.
“If there is a difference in interpretation, the Press Office may choose to withhold the transcript but cannot edit it independently,” a White House supervisor wrote in an email obtained by the AP. “Our Stenography Office transcript — released to our distro, which includes the National Archives — is now different than the version edited and released to the public by Press Office staff.”
House Republicans warned in a Wednesday letter to White House counsel Ed Siskel that the edits could be a violation of the Presidential Records Act.
Vice President Kamala Harris tried to distance herself from the remark that Trump’s supporters are “garbage,” which Biden made while she delivered her campaign’s “closing argument” from the National Mall Tuesday night.