If I were the Kamala Harris
campaign and the liberal media, I’d be drinking heavily. The vice
president’s DC rally, which should have been a media bonanza, for better
or worse, got torpedoed when Joe Biden decided to attack Trump
supporters, describing them as garbage. The media kicked it into high
gear to clean up the mess for two reasons: one, it’s an objectively bad
statement and pure accelerant to the GOP base, and two, it smothers
their ‘Trump’s MSG rally was a Nazi event’ narrative. Yet, it all fell
apart because a comedian’s word isn’t as relevant or powerful as Joe
Biden’s.
Tony Hinchcliffe made the ‘Puerto Rico is an island of garbage’ joke
at Trump’s rally at the Garden, which has been misattributed to the
former president. Now, with Biden’s remarks, they argue that
Hinchcliffe’s words have a more significant impact than those of the
president of the United States. The latest pivot is some phantom
apostrophe to muffle what Biden really said. The game is over, and this
could become a major scandal that rocks the final days of the Biden
White House. The stenographers knew what Biden said, but there were
unadvised tweaks to the transcript, which has set off another wave of
controversy—all of this done to help prevent any blowback to Kamala
Harris’ operation (via The Associated Press):
White House press officials altered the official
transcript of a call in which President Joe Biden appeared to take a
swipe at supporters of Donald Trump, drawing objections from the federal
workers who document such remarks for posterity, according to two U.S.
government officials and an internal email obtained Thursday by The
Associated Press.
Biden created an uproar earlier this week with
his remarks to Latino activists responding to racist comments at a Trump
rally made by the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who referred to the U.S.
island territory of Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”
Biden,
according to a transcript prepared by the official White House
stenographers, told the Latino group on a Tuesday evening video call,
“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, 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 spoilation 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.”
The edit of the transcript came as
the White House scrambled to respond to a wave of queries from reporters
about Biden’s comments. The president’s remarks clashed with Vice
President Kamala Harris’ near-simultaneous speech outside the White
House in which she called for treating Americans of differing ideologies
with respect.
The Trump campaign quickly moved to fundraise off
the quote, and the next day, Trump himself held a photo op inside a
garbage truck to try to capitalize on Biden’s criticism.
What a mess. Biden has been poking the Kamala campaign for days,
wanting to do campaign events together, but that was a long shot then
and a definite ‘no’ now. All the questions will be about this colossal
screw-up, partially one of the reasons why Kamala’s people wanted to
keep Biden away, not that their gal is any better on the stump—she’s a
total nightmare. There’s also reported bad blood between the two camps,
as Kamala’s staffers believe the president is actively trying to
sabotage their campaign.
Now, a public records scandal is
brewing. Whereas Trump took cocktail napkins, menus from state dinners,
and supposedly super-secret classified files, most of which were empty
folders, Biden and his goons unilaterally and quite possibly illegally
doctored a transcript for political purposes.
The stream of failure, lies, and self-inflicted mayhem continues with this guy.
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