White House stenographers are tasked with taking down every public word the president utters. Their job depends on doing that accurately and in an unbiased manner. But after Joe Biden made his insanely stupid crack about Trump supporters being “garbage,” the Biden White House went into full-on CYA mode.
They wanted to alter the transcript; not because it was inaccurate but because it was political dynamite. This was against the rules, as the supervisor of the stenographers’ office reminded the White House Press Office.
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“If there is a difference in interpretation, the Press Office may choose to withhold the transcript but cannot edit it independently,” the supervisor wrote. “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.”
How did they want to alter the official transcript? The original document, prepared by the stenographers, had the president saying, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters — his — his…
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