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   From: NoBody@nowhere.com   
      
   On Sat, 2 Nov 2024 07:29:14 -0000 (UTC), useapen   
    wrote:   
      
   >WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 fact that the White House can get away wth altering an official   
   transcript shows just how far gone our democracy is.   
      
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