Report: White House Officials Pressured Stenographers to Edit Biden’s ‘Garbage’ Smear

Wendell Husebo

“There’s no way to spin it: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris don’t just hate President Trump, they despise the tens of millions of Americans who support him. Kamala does not deserve four more years,” Karoline Leavitt, Trump campaign national spokesperson, said Tuesday

"White House press officials reportedly pressured stenographers to cover up President Joe Biden’s “garbage” smear by editing the transcript to alter its meaning.

"The coverup was “a breach of protocol and spoilation of transcript integrity between the Stenography and Press Offices,” according to a stenographer supervisor’s email obtained by the Associated Press (AP).

“ 'The only garbage I see floating out there is his [Trump] supporters,” Biden said Tuesday.

"The White House stenographers added an apostrophe to “supporters” and an em-dash to alter the meaning of Biden’s statement.

"White House press officials pressured the stenographers, charged with preparing accurate transcripts for National Archives’s preservation, but the stenographers drew objections to the changes, according to two U.S. government officials and an internal email obtained by the Association Press.

“ 'This would be called lying in a public document,” Clay Travis, founder of Outkick, reacted on X. Greg Price said the edit is a “Direct violation of the Presidential Records Act.”

"The AP reported: 

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.

According to the email, the press office had asked the stenographers to quickly produce a transcript of the call amid the firestorm. Biden himself took to social media to say that he he was not calling all Trump supporters garbage and that he was referring specifically to the “hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump’s supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally.” . .  .

Democrats "speak"; Republicans "spew". TD      Biden Calling Trump Supporters ‘Garbage’ Says All You Need To Know About Today’s Dem Party; Issues & Insights  . . ."As the news site Just the News noted, “the Democrats’ penchant for smearing MAGA supporters and other dissident groups has become a central part of their messaging as Trump appears poised to make a return to the White House.”

"With two assassination attempts made on his life and his fervent MAGA followers vilified daily by the so-called mainstream media, Trump’s response to Biden’s word-belch perhaps put it best: “You can’t lead America if you don’t love Americans,” he told supporters at a North Carolina rally Wednesday. “And you can’t be president if you hate the American people.”

"Next Tuesday, Democrats might find out just how true those words are."