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Demonstrating their attention to Americans’ top issues, House Republicans announced on Wednesday they will launch an investigation into the placement of one apostrophe in a transcript of remarks President Joe Biden gave to progressive group Voto Latino this week.
On the video call, Biden slammed Donald Trump’s Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden, where racist comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.”
“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s—his—his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American,” Biden told Voto Latino.
Republicans quickly jumped on Biden’s stutter, arguing that there should be no apostrophe in the word “supporters,” because they hope to conjure up the same cacophonous news cycle as Democrat Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” remark in 2016.
This led to Chairwoman of the House Republican Conference Elise Stefanik and Chairman of the House Oversight Committee James Comer sending a letter on Wednesday demanding that “the White House retain and preserve all documents and internal communications regarding President Biden’s statement and the release of the inaccurate transcript,” citing their committee’s power to “investigate ‘any matter’ at ‘any time’ under House Rule X.”
