Staff Reports
The so-called leaders in the White House have managed to stumble into yet another ethics quagmire, this time around a minor fracas stemming from President Joe Biden’s off-the-cuff remarks about supporters of former President Trump. Not content with the original transcript of Biden’s comments, press officials decided to take matters into their own hands, pressuring stenographers to apply some good old-fashioned editorial finesse—essentially rewriting history by altering the transcript. This attempt to sanitize the president’s words has raised eyebrows and sparked accusations of a serious breach of protocol, as if the American people can’t handle the raw truth.
In his colorful comments, Biden reportedly called Trump supporters “garbage.” Naturally, this wasn’t going to slide neatly under the rug, so the stenographers were put in a bit of a pickle. They received directives from their superiors to modify Trump’s supporters to “Trump’s supporters,” effectively revising Biden’s message to something markedly less inflammatory. This edit, which involved merely adding punctuation, has drawn the ire of many, who see it as a blatant attempt to cover up the president’s real opinion. It’s hard not to wonder what else might be dusted off and altered behind closed doors at the White House.
COVER UP
Report: White House Officials Pressured Stenographers to Edit Biden’s ‘Garbage’ Smearhttps://t.co/X6nheUShkz— David Shipley (@3DShipley3) November 1, 2024
Internal communications have revealed that at least one veteran stenographer expressed concerns about the integrity of the transcript after the edits were made. This brave soul pointed out that instead of making changes to a public document on the fly, the press office should have simply withheld the transcript. Transparency took a backseat to political expediency, and if there’s anything that drives conservatives wild, it’s when government officials play fast and loose with the truth.
In a twist that could come straight out of a political satire plot twist, as the edited remarks flew out into the wild, Biden took to social media to insist that he wasn’t actually calling all Trump supporters “garbage.” Instead, he tried to frame it as a comment specifically about the “hateful rhetoric” coming from one particular event. However, with the so-called damage control in full swing, one can’t help but feel this is akin to a child trying to cover their tracks after spilling juice all over the carpet.
Not surprisingly, the backpedaling didn’t sit well with prominent conservative voices, who practically leapt into action to slam the White House’s lack of integrity. They were quick to point out that, at its core, this debacle reflects a deeper disdain for millions of Americans who dare support Donald Trump. As if trying to add icing to a very poorly constructed cake, Vice President Kamala Harris claimed the administration is for “all Americans.” Unfortunately for her, it seems that the truth finds a way of slipping through the cracks, and the American electorate will not soon forget this latest misstep from the Biden administration.
