The White House sparked a significant controversy for altering the transcript of Joe Biden’s “garbage” comment describing Trump supporters. According to POLITICO, White House aides broke with protocol and amended the official transcript of his remarks without consulting the stenography office. Although the edit was one apostrophe, the change has major implications. #BREAKING: AP has CONFIRMED the White House ILLEGALLY ALTERED the transcript of Joe Biden calling Trump supports “garbage” This is a BLATANT violation of the Presidential Records Act, and WH press officials MUST BE PROSECUTED. DO NOT LET THEM GET AWAY WITH THIS! pic.twitter.com/0EisKXVvUc — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) November 1, 2024 POLITICO reports: The president, according to the transcript prepared by White House stenographers, told the people on the call: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.” Biden’s statement and the firestorm since has threatened to distract from Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign ahead of Election Day. The call on which Biden made the remarks was held shortly before Harris’ campaign speech just hundreds of yards away on the Ellipse making her closing argument for voters to reject Trump. The edit to the official White House transcript underscores the lengths Biden administration officials went to limit the political damage of Biden’s comments. The fallout of the president’s remark continues to reverberate, adding even greater anxiety to Biden’s final public appearances before the election, expected Friday and Saturday. In addition, Republicans on Capitol Hill are already asking questions about the transcript change, raising the possibility of an investigation. Biden didn't call Trump supporters "garbage," the media said. But he did. And now two officials and an internal email reveal that the White House press office altered the transcript after it "conferred with the president" in direct violation of the Presidential Records Act. https://t.co/GF09JZ7FVf pic.twitter.com/Y76ZciKBbF — Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) November 1, 2024 From the Associated Press: 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 spoliation of transcript integrity between the Stenography and Press Offices.” “If there is a difference in interpretation, the Press Office may choose to withhold the transcript but cannot edit it independently,” the supervisor wrote, adding, “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.” A former White House stenographer told the New York Post he could not recall a single instance where the presidential press office altered a transcript. “I don’t recall this happening ever in my six years as Biden’s vice presidential stenographer,” Mike McCormick said, according to the outlet. “Nor did it happen in the one year I served President Trump or the five years I served President [George W.] Bush. What goes in the transcript is what the White House stenographer hears and transcribes,” he added. Ex-White House stenographer on Biden ‘garbage’ transcript edit: ‘Don’t recall this happening ever’ https://t.co/KYL756M81X pic.twitter.com/iFpVNQsKqg — New York Post (@nypost) November 1, 2024 Per the New York Post: Late Thursday, the Associated Press reported that the stenographers’ office had complained of “spoliation of transcript integrity” and a “breach of protocol” by the press office after Biden, 81, said on a campaign call with the Voto Latino group that “the only garbage I see floating out there is his [Trump’s] supporters.” The official transcript, however, included an apostrophe on the word “supporter’s,” suggesting that Biden was only attacking comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who had called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” during a Trump rally at Madison Square Garden Sunday. Traditionally, transcripts of presidential remarks are forwarded to reporters by the press office without correction, with strikethroughs to mark when the commander in chief misspeaks or otherwise noting when his words are unintelligible. The leak of the complaint set off palace intrigue within the West Wing as well as speculation about the identity and motive of the leaker, whom insiders suspect is a political aide rather than a member of the stenographer team, which is known for its professionalism and discretion. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre side-stepped the matter when asked aboard Air Force One en route to Philadelphia Friday.

President Trump gave a somber and almost tearful part of his speech recently where he talked about how the MAGA rallies would soon stop. I suppose we all knew that if we were being honest with ourselves. Of course they have to stop, they are campaign rallies and no matter what happens we won’t need to be campaigning after November 5th. But these massive MAGA rallies have been a part of our lives sine 2015 and having them abruptly stop is going to be a bit jarring for many of us, President Trump included if the tone of his voice tells you anything! Watch here: Sounds almost like he’s saying goodbye as he talks about the conclusion to his Legendary Rallies You can hear it in his voice… and he’s telling us to prepare for the next phase, the next four years of HIS Presidency. Oddly enough, I’m going to miss these times… how about… pic.twitter.com/DSmh8KDfGh — MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) October 26, 2024 Sounds almost like he’s saying goodbye as he talks about the conclusion to his Legendary Rallies You can hear it in his voice… and he’s telling us to prepare for the next phase, the next four years of HIS Presidency. Oddly enough, I’m going to miss these times… how about you? Are you ready for the next phase MAGA? Yes, the next phase is going to be incredible…. That’s the main course, the big enchilada, the thing we’ve been doing all of this for. But man am I going to miss these! He brought it up again today at a different rally…. It’s clearly on his mind a lot right now. Nobody loves these rallies more than President Trump himself and I think he’s truly going to miss them! Oh sure, I’ll bet we get one or two more during the next 4 years as more of a celebration than a campaign rally, and that will be fun, but I have grown accustomed to these each day and it’s going to be a pretty big loss. “You’re going to look back at this time in life and you’re going to say there was something very very special about what we all did TOGETHER.”https://t.co/OuZi3GE7Ra pic.twitter.com/uQ9xUgycGb — MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) November 1, 2024 But now let’s read between the lines a bit in both of these videos…. In that second one especially, he’s already talking like they’ve won and describing how what we’ve done has been so very special. Perhaps he just means running a good campaign, but it sounds to me more like he’s speaking about the big military operation he’s been part of these last 10 years to save America. How about you? That’s immediately how I took that. This is not just some average campaign. These last 10 years, I believe, in some relation to Q and everything else we have lived through, have been the most advanced, white hat military operation our world has ever seen….and I think the cover will soon be pulled back on that for the world to see. It’s all over his face and voice as he speaks, can you see it? Very obvious to me. He knows we’re heading in to the final act and while it will be great and glorious on so many levels, cleaning up a crime scene is never fun or easy.  There will be tough times ahead even as we do what must be done. It’s all over his face in these clips, so clear to see. The other thing that jumps out at me is how he kind of throws JD Vance under the bus a bit! I was not the biggest JD Vance fan when he was first announced as VP, but I have come to really appreciate him on so many levels. Vivek would have been great too, but JD Vance was a brilliant pick! But here is President Trump talking about how someone else will be doing this in 4 years and he does not name JD Vance as that someone (which I find fascinating) because he would be the most obvious choice.  So really wild that he did not even say his name…. And then he says that person will be lucky to draw 300 people to a rally. Which, again is true, but it’s also quite a bit of a burn! So I don’t know exactly what to make of all of that but I find it fascinating! What about you?