Every term the president says must be removed from the White House reporters. Their career depends on how effectively and objectively they do that. However, after Joe Biden made his crazy terrible rant about Trump backers being “garbage,” the Biden White House entered full-on CYA style.
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They wanted to change the text, not because it was false but because it was political explosives. As the reporters ‘ department officer reminded the White House Press Office, this was against the laws.
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” If there is a change in understanding, the Press Office may choose to withdraw the text but could change it independently”, the officer wrote. Our Stenography Office record, which includes the National Archives and was made available to our package, is then different from the type that Press Office workers edited and made available to the public.
How did they want to change the official text? The original document, prepared by the stenographers, had the president saying,” The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American” . ,
The transcript released by the White House press office, but, rendered the offer with an apostrophe, reading” politician’s” more than” supporters”, which advisers said pointed to Biden criticizing Hinchcliffe, never the millions of Americans who are supporting Trump for president.
According to an internal message from the mind of the reporters ‘ office that The AP obtained, the change was made after the media business” conferred with the leader.” Two state officials who spoke on the subject of privacy with regard to domestic matters confirmed the email’s authenticity.
The officer, in the internet, called the media company’s processing of the subject” a breach of protocol and spoliation of record integrity between the Stenography and Press Offices”.
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Assistant Press Secretary Andrew Bates distributed the expression to the internet about the “real” interpretation of what Biden said and the causes of the dilemma.
That bloody comma.
The comma in this case is doing a lot of raising. But if it is to take the significance the WH says, it should have appeared after the s. https ://t.co/87w3bkrwbV photograph. twitter.com/5Hf8cXyyM1— Jacqui Heinrich ( @JacquiHeinrich ) October 30, 2024
Various media outlets echoed the “apostrophe misunderstandings”. The reporters were likely very hungry by this. The White House claimed that they had done their job completely, but they had blown it. Biden said what he said, and no “misplaced comma” was going to transform it.
But the stenographer’s hands were tied. The officer was unable, so the White House released the text anyway, despite the rules requiring them to obtain their consent to change it.
The officer, a White House job staff, addressed the concerns about the hit office action in an email to press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, and another press and communications officials, but did not comment on the accuracy of the edit.
” Regardless of urgency, it is essential to our transcripts ‘ authenticity and legitimacy that we adhere to consistent protocol for requesting edits, approval, and release”, the supervisor wrote.
The supervisor referred inquiries to the White House press office and declined to comment on The AP.
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House Republicans may launch an investigation into” L’Affaire d’apostrophe” . ,
The lawmakers wrote to Ed Siskel, senior White House counsel, saying that” White House staff cannot rewrite the words of the President of the United States to be more politically on message.” The lawmakers “demanded that the administration be given access to internal communications and documents related to the release of the transcript and Biden’s remarks.”
Nothing will come of any “investigation”, of course. But at least the stenos of the White House have been proven right.
