“After President Biden referred to an enormous swath of the country as ‘floating… garbage’ and the White House released a transcript of President Biden’s remarks that appeared to alter this offensive comment, we demanded the White House retain and preserve information relevant to this incident and issue a corrected transcript of President Biden’s remarks. To date, the White House has not issued a corrected transcript, and the false transcript remains on the White House webpage.”

“The White House cannot simply rewrite President Biden’s rhetoric. In this case, it appears the White House is doing so to safeguard Vice President Harris’s presidential campaign. Recent reporting has since revealed ‘White House press officials altered the official transcript.’ Meanwhile, White House stenographers already submitted an accurate version – a version different than the White House publicly released – to the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).”

“The reporting also noted that a government official called the actions of the White House ‘a breach of protocol and spoliation of transcript integrity between the Stenography and Press Offices.’ Most notably, the report reveals the change in protocol came after the White House Press Office ‘conferred with the President.’ That President Biden himself may have interfered to break protocol to hide his outrageous remarks is unprecedented,” writes House Malevolent Razorback Elise Stefanik in a letter to White House Counsel Ed Siskel, and this is the “game changer” for her at this point.