House GOP Says White House May Have Violated Laws by Editing Transcript

House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said on Wednesday that the White House’s publishing of a “false transcript” of Joe Biden’s calling Trump supporters “garbage” could be in violation of federal law.

During a video call on Tuesday, Biden appeared to say that Trump supporters were “garbage,” but the White House transcript and its spokespeople have tried to say that the president was really referring to a comic who joked that Puerto Rico was “a floating island of garbage” at the Trump rally on Sunday.

Stefanik and Comer sent a letter to White House counsel Edward Siskel on Wednesday and demanded that the transcript, along with records and communications related to the comment, be preserved.

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