The White House remained silent Thursday when asked to confirm whether its stenographers had approved the transcript it posted of President Biden’s remarks calling Trump supporters ‘garbage,’ amid allegations from Republicans that the written version of his remarks posted to the White House’s website was deceptively edited.

Republicans from the House Oversight Committee sent a letter to White House attorney Edward Siskel on Wednesday, alleging ‘a false transcript’ of Biden’s remarks had been released by the White House and demanded that it ‘retain and preserve all documents and internal communications’ regarding the president’s remarks and the release of the subsequent transcript. The committee also requested that an updated transcript with the correct wording be provided. 

Following Biden’s Tuesday remarks, which came during a virtual Zoom call with a Hispanic get-out-the-vote group known as Voto Latino, the White House posted a transcript of the president’s remarks. Transcripts are regularly posted every time the president speaks, and it is typical protocol to get those transcripts approved by the White House’s apolitical group of professional stenographers. However, the White House has not responded to repeated requests from Fox News questioning whether the final transcript of Biden’s remarks with Voto Latino had been approved by the stenographers.

Sources at the Oversight Committee told Fox News that while Biden was clearly calling Trump supporters ‘garbage,’ the transcript includes incorrect syntax that made the president’s words appear as if he was not directly speaking about Trump supporters – an argument echoed by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. 

‘President Biden’s vindictive words were unsurprising, given his previous statements regarding people who choose not to vote for his preferred candidate. Unsurprising, too, were the White House’s actions after he said them,’ read the letter, signed by Reps. Elise Stefanik, R–N.Y. and James Comer, R–Ky. 

‘The move is not only craven, but it also appears to be in violation of federal law, including the Presidential Records Act of 1978,’ the two GOP leaders continued in their letter. ‘White House staff cannot rewrite the words of the President of the United States to be more politically on message.’  

In an attempt to clarify Biden’s remarks amid backlash over the comments, White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates insisted that: ‘The president referred to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally as ‘garbage.’’ Biden himself also published a tweet following his controversial remarks echoing Bates’ argument. 

Vice President Kamala Harris, meanwhile, sought to distance herself from the president’s comments less than a week before Election Day, but she simultaneously defended Biden by noting he ‘clarified his comments.’

‘I think that first of all, he clarified his comments, but let me be clear, I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for,’ Harris said from the campaign trail on Wednesday morning.

Throughout the election season, Vice President Kamala Harris’ rallies have been plagued by anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protesters, despite the vice president’s efforts not to upset this cohort of the electorate.

Protesters gathered at Harris’ campaign stops in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin on Wednesday, often disrupting the vice president and forcing her to pause in the middle of speaking. 

‘Kamala Harris, you have disrespected the Palestinian community!’ yelled a protester who interrupted the vice president’s address from Raleigh, North Carolina, yesterday. Harris was referred to as a ‘war criminal’ by disruptive protesters at her rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the same day and, in Madison, Wisconsin, protesters holding a sign that read ‘Killer Kamala’ were forcibly removed from the venue. 

‘Look, everybody has a right to be heard. But right now, I am speaking,’ Harris said during interruptions at her rally in Harrisburg. The vice president’s response hearkened back to her reaction to anti-Israel agitators from Detroit, when she once again had to interject that she had the floor to speak – and not them. ‘We won’t vote for genocide!’ protesters yelled at Harris in Detroit.

Wednesday’s campaign events are just the latest example of anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protesters crashing Harris’ rallies, despite the vice president’s alleged effort to quell dissent from this portion of the electorate when she decided to choose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate over Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro. The move was reportedly due to the latter’s Jewish heritage and record of being pro-Israel. 

Anti-Israel agitators were also present earlier in the week, showing up to rallies on Monday and Harris’ widely attended ‘closing argument’ election speech in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday night. Protesters, organized by groups such as the left-wing nonprofit Code Pink, yelled things like ‘Stop Arming Israel!’ and ‘Arms Embargo Now!’ while also holding banners with slogans like ‘No Votes for Genocide.’

Meanwhile, other banners at Harris rallies have read: ‘Terrified of Trump. Wish I Could Vote For U… But You Are Committing Genocide.’

While Harris’ rallies have been marred by anti-Israel protesters ever since she took over the nomination from President Biden, the frequency of these protesters showing up at her rallies appears to be growing as Election Day nears.

‘Let me be clear, I will always stand up for Israel’s right to defend itself and I will always ensure Israel has the ability to defend itself,’ Harris declared during her address at the Democrat National Convention in August. ‘At the same time, what has happened in Gaza in the past 10 months is devastating. So many innocent lives lost. The scale of suffering is heartbreaking.’

This week, progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., attempted to persuade voters concerned about Harris’ stance toward Israel and Gaza, noting that he too does not fully agree with Harris or Biden when it comes to the war. 

‘Some of you are saying, ‘How can I vote for Kamala Harris if she is supporting this terrible war?’ And that is a very fair question,’ Sanders said in a video shared on social media Monday. ‘Let me give you my best answer – and that is that even on this issue, Donald Trump and his right wing friends are worse.’ 

Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris campaign for comment but did not receive a response by publication time.

: The Trump campaign is blasting Mark Cuban, a top surrogate for Kamala Harris, for ‘extremely insulting’ comments against women who support former President Donald Trump, demanding the vice president ‘immediately condemn’ his remarks. 

Cuban appeared on ABC’s ‘The View’ Thursday morning when he made the comments. 

‘Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women. Ever,’ Cuban said. ‘It’s just that simple. They’re intimidating to him. He doesn’t like to be challenged by them.’ 

Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed Cuban’s comments. 

‘Joe Biden called Trump supporters garbage, and now Kamala’s top surrogate Mark Cuban insinuated female Trump supporters are ‘weak and dumb,’’ Leavitt told Fox News Digital.

‘This is extremely insulting to the thousands of women who work for President Trump, and the tens of millions of women who are voting for him,’ Leavitt said. ‘These women are mothers, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders, and they are, indeed, strong and intelligent, despite what Mark Cuban and Kamala Harris say.’ 

Leavitt told Fox News Digital that the ‘joy at Kamala HQ has been replaced by division, vitriol, and a disturbing level of disrespect for the millions of Americans who are supporting President Trump after four years of destruction under Kamala Harris.’ 

‘Women want a president who will secure our border, remove violent criminals from our neighborhoods, and put more money in our pockets — and that’s exactly why we are supporting President Trump,’ Leavitt said. ‘Kamala Harris must immediately condemn Mark Cuban’s disrespectful insult to women.’ 

The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. 

The comment comes just days after President Biden apparently referred to Trump supporters as ‘garbage.’ 

Biden spoke during a Zoom call with Voto Latino, one of the largest Latino voter and civic outreach organizations in the U.S. on Tuesday. Biden was asked about a comment made Sunday during a Trump rally at Madison Square Garden in which comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage.’

Biden replied, ‘The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.’ 

The White House has since denied that Biden called Trump supporters ‘garbage’ and claimed the comment was taken out of context.

Trump, in Wisconsin on Wednesday, drove around in a ‘Make America Great Again’ garbage truck, wearing a garbage worker’s high-visibility vest to address supporters at his Green Bay rally. 

‘He called them garbage — and they mean it, even though, without question, my supporters are far higher quality than Crooked Joe and Lyin’ Kamala,’ Trump told supporters Wednesday afternoon.

But Trump said he had a response for the president and vice president. 

‘My response to Joe and Kamala is very simple: You can’t lead America if you don’t love Americans,’ Trump declared. ‘And you can’t be president if you hate the American people, and there’s a lot of hatred there.’ 

A new report from a government watchdog organization is blasting the Biden-Harris administration’s claims that it is the ‘most ethical and transparent’ administration in history, calling it a ‘myth.’

‘From its onset, the Biden-Harris administration promised to ‘bring transparency and truth back to government,’ per then-White House press secretary Jen Psaki,’ the 26-page report from Protect The Public’s Trust states.

‘Psaki also claimed that President Joe Biden ‘is committed to ensuring we have the most ethically vigorous administration in history.’ However, the administration and its executive branch agencies have often failed to live up to these high ideals, and the myth of a scandal-free administration is just that: a myth.’

The report outlines alleged ethics violations throughout the Biden administration from the White House, HHS, Department of Interior, Department of Energy, EPA, Department of Commerce, State Department and other various complaints.

In the Biden White House, the report outlines alleged ethics issues with the Office of White House Counsel (WHCO) and The White House and National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) including allegations that Biden’s White House lawyers were acting as his personal attorneys amid the investigation into mishandling of classified documents.

The report also suggests that White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has violated the Hatch Act, along with White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates, and raises concerns about former press secretary Psaki’s ‘apparent conflict of interest while looking to leave federal service for a high-salary television job.’

In the portion of the report that discusses President Biden’s HHS, the report says ‘no agency has lost so much credibility during the Biden-Harris administration’ as HHS.

‘As it took the reins amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Biden-Harris HHS disregarded ethical and scientific integrity principles as it issued farreaching recommendations governing nearly every aspect of Americans’ lives,’ the report states. ‘PPT exposed a number of potential violations and filed several complaints against appointees in the department and its component agencies to help preserve what little remains of the public’s trust.’

The report outlines how Biden’s Department of Interior (DOI) ‘has a record of cutting ethical corners in favor of special interest policies’ and that the Department of Energy has given DOI a ‘run for its money’ with its own questionable ethics decisions.

‘Ethics issues in the Biden-Harris administration didn’t end with Hunter Biden and the president’s family,’ Michael Chamberlain, Director of Protect the Public’s Trust, told Fox News Digital. ‘Despite their claims to be the most ethical in history, we’ve documented possible ethics violations in most of the Cabinet-level agencies, including confirmed Hatch Act violations, conflicts of interest, and all the hazards that come with having a revolving door between official D.C. and well-connected activist groups.’

‘While others have found similar Biden-Harris breaches, they are not the groups and media outlets that were so enthusiastic about uncovering problems in the last administration. Just because the public hasn’t heard much about these in the legacy media, we caution everyone to beware of future attempts to paint this as a ‘scandal-free’ administration.’

The report concludes by saying many of their documented complaints have led to ‘investigations by Inspectors General, the Office of Special Counsel or other investigative bodies, or prompting letters from Congressional committees.’

‘As is often the case when it comes to government, sunlight is the best disinfectant,’ the report concluded. ‘The light we have shone on these incidents may be useful when revisionist historians begin twisting their tales in the coming years, to help expose the myth of a ‘scandal-free’ administration as just that: a myth.’

Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment but did not receive a response.

President Biden is getting hit with a resolution in Congress condemning his ‘garbage’ remarks while discussing former President Donald Trump’s supporters earlier this week.

‘President Biden must be condemned for calling millions of Americans who support Donald Trump garbage,’ Rep. John Rose, R-Tenn., who is introducing the measure later this week, told Fox News Digital.

He linked it to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s infamous quip that half of Trump supporters were a ‘basket of deplorables’ during her doomed 2016 presidential bid. 

‘First, Democrats called half the country deplorables. Now, they are doubling down, calling us garbage. Democrats’ disrespect for half the country’s views and opinions is exactly what is wrong with the leadership of extreme far-left liberals,’ Rose said.

Republicans have been hammering Biden – and by extension 2024 Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris – over the remarks, even forcing top Democrats to distance themselves from the controversial comment.

The White House has denied that the president called Trump supporters ‘garbage,’ and interpretations of what the 81-year-old leader said have been hotly debated.

Biden was asked about Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden during a virtual call with Voto Latino. Democrats had accused Republicans of racist rhetoric during the event, particularly one of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes referring to Puerto Rico as a ‘floating island of garbage.’

He responded by saying, ‘Donald Trump has no character. He doesn’t give a damn about the Latino community. He’s a failed businessman. He only cares about the billionaire friends that he has and accumulating wealth for those at the top.’

‘And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage.’ Well, let me tell you something…in my home state of Delaware, they’re good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters – his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.  It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done, everything we’ve been,’ Biden said.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted Wednesday that he was referring to Hinchcliffe’s joke.

‘He does not view Trump supporters or anybody who supports Trump as garbage. That is not what he views,’ she said.

Biden himself posted a similar explanation on X earlier this week.

‘His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don’t reflect who we are as a nation,’ the post said.

However, that has done little to stem the Republican backlash, particularly with Election Day less than a week away.

Trump arrived at his Wednesday campaign stop in Wisconsin in a garbage truck and wore a high-visibility vest throughout his rally.

Vivek Ramaswamy, one of his surrogates, posted a video of himself on the job with sanitation workers.

Harris distanced herself from the comments Wednesday morning, telling reporters, ‘I think that, first of all, he clarified his comments. But let me be clear, I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for.’

Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., who is running in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country, went even further.

‘In terms of what President Biden said yesterday, he shouldn’t have said it. I mean, it’s inappropriate. And, for me, I just think that kind of talk is the last thing we need in our politics,’ Slotkin told Michigan radio station WWJ Newsradio.

Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment on Rose’s resolution.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has indicated that former President Donald Trump plans to give him ‘control’ over the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Kennedy indicated that Trump ‘promised’ him ‘control’ over ‘public health agencies, which are HHS and its sub-agencies, CDC, FDA, NIH, and a few others,’ plus the USDA. 

He made the comments in a video clip that has been circulating online. 

The New York Times reported that Kennedy noted via text that the video was a recording from an internal talk with campaign workers regarding get-out-the-vote efforts for Trump.

‘I stand ready to help him rid the public health agencies of their pervasive conflicts and corruption and restore their tradition of gold-standard, evidence-based science,’ Kennedy said in a statement, according to the outlet.

The HHS secretary and USDA secretary posts are both cabinet-level positions.

‘No formal decisions about Cabinet and personnel have been made, however, President Trump has said he will work alongside passionate voices like RFK Jr. to Make America Healthy Again by providing families with safe food and ending the chronic disease epidemic plaguing our children,’ Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement, according to reports.

Kennedy initially pursued the Democratic presidential nomination, then switched to an independent presidential bid, and eventually dropped out and backed Trump.

‘When @realDonaldTrump gets me inside the USDA, we’re going to give farmers an off-ramp from the current system that destroys soil, makes people sick, and harms family farms,’ Kennedy posted.

When podcast host Joe Rogan asked Trump whether he is fully committed to including Kennedy in his administration, Trump said, ‘I am.’

During his recent rally at Madison Square Garden, Trump said he will let Kennedy ‘go wild on health,’ food and medicine.

‘One of the first things I will do once we get @realDonaldTrump back in the White House and me to D.C. is to get ultra-processed foods out of school lunches,’ Kennedy posted.

Kennedy has said that public health entities like the CDC, NIH, FDA, and USDA ‘have become sock puppets for the industries that they’re supposed to regulate.’ 

He said that he and Trump will ‘replace the corrupt industry-captured officials with honest public servants.’