White House may have violated law by doctoring Biden ‘garbage’ transcript

As the saying goes, “It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up” and the White House’s attempt to change the inflammatory rhetoric of President Joe Biden may have broken the law.

On Tuesday, the geriatric lame-duck landed a one-two punch on his own party with his gaffe that supporters of former President Donald J. Trump were “garbage” with remarks that make no secret of the contempt that he and his fellow Democrats have for half the country.

Biden’s description of tens of millions of Americans as “garbage” – which echoed Hillary Clinton’s 2016 “basket of deplorables” diss – stole the media attention from Kamala Harris’ big closing argument at the site of the J6 rally as well as torpedoed the ridiculous faux outrage over a comic’s bombed joke.

“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” the 81-year-old told a pro-Harris group on a video call, clearly referring to all Trump supporters.

The most dishonest administration of all time then tried to gaslight Americans that Biden was referring only to Tony Hinchcliffe despite his repeated smearing of Trump supporters, doctoring the official White House transcript to include an apostrophe to significantly alter the meaning of his insulting remarks.

House Republicans have now warned that the White House’s tinkering with the transcript may be a violation of the Presidential Records Act in a Wednesday letter sent to White House counsel Edward Siskel.

“In less than one week, the American people will determine the winner of the 2024 presidential election. They will choose between two candidates: President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. President Biden — marred by unpopular policies, scandal, and apparent cognitive deterioration — has chosen not to pursue a second term in office,” wrote Oversight Committee Chair Rep. James Comer (R-KY) and House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) in the letter.

“President Biden, however, has continued to play a prominent role in Vice President Harris’s campaign and, indeed, is the most powerful mouthpiece for the Biden-Harris Administration’s policies and views that Ms. Harris presumably seeks to continue under a hypothetical Harris-Walz Administration,” the letter reads.

“Americans were rightfully insulted, then when President Biden, seeking to boost Ms. Harris’s presidential campaign, referred to an enormous swath of the country as ‘floating garbage,’” the lawmakers wrote.

“President Biden’s vindictive words were unsurprising, given his previous statements regarding people who choose not to vote for his preferred candidate,” they added. “Unsurprising too were the White House’s actions after he said them.”

The top Republicans stated that “instead of apologizing or clarifying President Biden’s words,” the White House sought to “change them (despite them being recorded on video) by releasing a false transcript of his remarks.”

“The move is not only craven, but it also appears to be in violation of federal law, including the Presidential Records Act of 1978,” the letter read. “White House staff cannot rewrite the words of the President of the United States to be more politically on message.”

“Though President Biden’s relevance continues to diminish, his words continue to matter, even as they become increasingly divisive and erratic,” Comer and Stefanik wrote, ordering the White House to “retain and preserve all documents and internal communications regarding President Biden’s statement and the release of the inaccurate transcript.”

“We also demand that the White House issue a corrected transcript with the accurate words,” they said.

The regime’s media Muppets have been insisting that Biden didn’t really mean to insult half of the electorate days before the election but lie as they do, it came straight from the proverbial horse’s mouth.

During a rally in North Carolina on Wednesday, Trump said that Harris and Biden have “treated our whole country like garbage.”

“My response to Joe and Kamala is very simple: You can’t lead America if you don’t love Americans,” he added. “And you can’t be president if you hate the American people, and there’s a lot of hatred there.”

Chris Donaldson

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