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White House Uses a Punctuation Trick in Attempt to Cover Up Biden's 'Garbage' Attack on Trump Supporters

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The White House is scrambling to cover for President Joe Biden’s tactless remarks in which he called former President Donald Trump’s supporters — that’s half the country at least — “garbage.”

While on a Zoom call with Voto Latino President and co-founder Maria Theresa Kumar on Tuesday evening, Biden addressed Trump’s massive rally that took place on Sunday at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

The president decided to hop on the bandwagon in feigning outrage over a joke comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made about Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”

Biden took the language used by Hinchcliffe to insult Americans who back Trump.

“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” Biden said.

In the White House transcript of the call, an apostrophe can now be found in the statement, making it read as follows:  “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s.”

The implication is that Biden was referring to Hinchcliffe’s words — not to Trump voters. It’s an interpretation that doesn’t pass the smell test.

The clip of Biden speaking can be seen here. The viewer can surely discern what the president actually meant.

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MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire tried to keep the White House narrative intact by posting on social media platform X that Biden’s quote was “being taken out of context” with a screenshot of the transcript.

“Andrew,” the political commentator at the Don’t Walk, Run! site on YouTube, noted the irony in Lemire’s defense of the Biden White House distortion of the truth, as Lemire authored a book titled, “The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020.”

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There were plenty of other social media users who weren’t fooled by the apostrophe trick.

How does anyone hear what Biden says in the clip above and determine he isn’t doing anything but calling Trump supporters “garbage?”

The White House version doesn’t make sense in any “context” to quote Lemire.

It’s as simple as what can be heard – Trump supporters are garbage. That’s what Biden said. It’s what he meant.

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