White House press officials altered transcript of Joe Biden ‘garbage remark’ call: report

The Associated Press reports press officials altered the official transcript of a call in which the US president appeared to take a swipe at supporters of Donald Trump

White House press officials altered the official transcript of a call in which President Joe Biden appeared to take a swipe at supporters of Donald Trump, drawing objections from the federal workers who document such remarks for posterity, according to two US government officials and an internal email obtained on Thursday by the Associated Press.

Biden created an uproar earlier this week with his remarks to Latino activists responding to racist comments at a Trump rally made by the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who referred to the US island territory of Puerto Rico as a floating island of garbage."