The House Oversight Committee is applying pressure on the White House to release accurate transcripts, after they allegedly altered President Biden’s remarks after he called Trump supporters “garbage.”
House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Oversight Chair James Comer, R-KY, sent a letter to the White House counsel’s office Friday demanding they preserve all documents related to the transcript.
“To date, the White House has not issued a corrected transcript, and the false transcript remains on the White House webpage,” they wrote.
The letter from the GOP leaders shared their “concern with the latest reporting of the White House’s apparent political decision to protect the Biden-Harris Administration, instead of following longstanding and proper protocols.”
The transcript standard states that: “If there is a difference in interpretation, the Press Office may choose to withhold the transcript but cannot edit it independently. Our Stenography Office transcript — released to our distro, which includes the National Archives — is now different than the version edited and released to the public by Press Office staff.”
Now, Stefanik and Comer are demanding that the White House:
- Produce all documents and internal communications regarding President Biden’s statement and the release of the inaccurate transcript.
- Release the accurate version of the transcript the White House Stenographers submitted to NARA.
- Immediately make available the White House Stenography Office’s top supervisor for a briefing to the Oversight Committee.
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