By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2024-10-30 14:05:12 | Updated at 2024-10-31 13:27:41
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The White House and its media allies ran a coverup for President Biden’s maligning of former President Donald Trump’s supporters as “garbage” — going as far as to edit an official transcript of his remarks to lessen the blow.
Democrats went into damage-control mode Tuesday night due to the president’s trash talk, claiming that Biden hadn’t intended to demonize their political opponents.
“The President referred to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally as ‘garbage,’” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement.
The White House in a transcript of the speech also added an apostrophe to the 81-year-old’s poorly timed criticism fewer than five days before the 2024 election.
“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American,” the transcript read.
In a follow-up X post, Biden added: “Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump’s supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage – which is the only word I can think of to describe it.”
“His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I meant to say,” the president claimed. “The comments at that rally don’t reflect who we are as a nation.”
