According to the AP agency, White House press officers changed the transcript of Joe Biden's video call, in which the US president called supporters of his predecessor Donald Trump "garbage" UNN reports .
The White House is caught changing President Joe Biden's statement about Donald Trump's supporters in the official transcript.
The formula in the original transcript referred to Trump supporters in the plural as "supporters," making Biden appear to be criticizing millions of Trump voters.
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However, in the transcript released by the White House press service, the quote was presented with an apostrophe, and instead of "supporters," which aides said indicates that Biden is criticizing Hinchcliffe, not the millions of Americans who support Trump for president.
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The apostrophe has changed its meaning: the White House transcript now reads: "The only garbage I see is the garbage of his supporters." The apostrophe in the word "supporter's" changed the meaning of the entire sentence. Biden was talking about the "garbage of Trump's supporters" that he sees around him, but he did not call Trump's supporters garbage.
For Republicans, Biden's mistake was a hit. Donald Trump himself posed in a garbage truck the next day and told his supporters: "They call you trash because they've treated you like trash for the last four years.
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