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 tasked with recording the president’s remarks for posterity.

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, 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.

  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    215·
    17 hours ago

    Yeah, honestly…“altered” in a headline is itself biased, when “corrected” is entirely plausible. The transcriber had no idea if Biden meant to have an apostrophe there.

    Also, maybe spend the final week of what could be our final democratic election covering something of importance, AP.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      17 hours ago

      This isn’t the first time.

      It’s made headlines at least twice, but we only hear about it when the stenographers complain

      Obviously it’s not the end of the world, but that doesn’t mean we have to accept revisionism.