Top House Republicans seeking documents regarding Biden’s ‘garbage’ comment

WASHINGTON (AP) — Top House Republicans called connected nan White House to nutrient each documents and soul communications regarding President Joe Biden’s connection earlier this week successful which he appeared to return a swipe astatine supporters of Donald Trump.

White House property officials altered nan charismatic transcript of Biden’s statement, drawing objections from nan national workers who archive specified remarks for posterity, according to 2 U.S. authorities officials and an soul email obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.

The lawmakers said they mobility whether nan determination to create “a mendacious transcript and manipulate aliases change nan meticulous transcript” produced for nan National Archives and Records Administration was a usurpation of national law.

Rep. James Comer, nan Republican chair of nan House Committee connected Oversight and Accountability, and House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik demanded nan White House nutrient nan records. They’re besides calling for nan White House to make disposable for a briefing nan apical supervisor of nan White House Stenography’s Office.

“The White House cannot simply rewrite President Biden’s rhetoric,” Comer and Stefanik wrote. “...We are concerned pinch nan latest reporting of nan White House’s evident governmental determination to protect nan Biden-Harris Administration, alternatively of pursuing longstanding and due protocols.”

Biden created an uproar earlier this week pinch his remarks to Latino activists responding to racist comments astatine a Trump rally made by nan comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who referred to nan U.S. land territory of Puerto Rico arsenic a “floating land of garbage.”

Biden, according to a transcript prepared by nan charismatic White House stenographers, told nan Latino group connected a Tuesday evening video call, “The only garbage I spot floating retired location is his supporters — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”

The transcript released by nan White House property office, however, rendered nan quote pinch an apostrophe, reference “supporter’s” alternatively than “supporters,” which aides said pointed to Biden criticizing Hinchcliffe, not nan millions of Americans who are supporting Trump for president.