After the Associated Press reported that the White House altered the record of President Joe Biden smearing Trump supporters as “garbage,” critics ripped the media for trying to spin the edit as being taken out of context.
The cover-up 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).
“This would be called lying in a public document,” Clay Travis, founder of Outkick, reacted on X. House Conference chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) along with others, said the edit violated the Presidential Records Act.
White House stenographers added an apostrophe to “supporters” and an em-dash to alter the meaning of Biden’s statement.
Politico’s White House bureau chief, Jonathan Lemire, immediately suggested the edit was…
