Trump's White House Goes From Hiding 80% Of His Transcribed Remarks To Hiding 99.5%
WASHINGTON — Mere days after HuffPost revealed how few of President Donald Trump’s transcribed remarks it was making public, his White House decided to post none at all, save for his Jan. 20 inaugural address.
HuffPost’s May 15 report showed that, breaking from every previous presidential administration in modern times, Trump’s second-term press office was releasing only a small fraction of the transcripts produced by the nonpartisan civil servants who produce them at taxpayer expense.
Over his first 100 days in office, Trump’s White House had released just 29 of the 146 transcripts of his speeches, news conferences and interactions with news media. White House staff did not offer any reason for why they were withholding material that had been released as a matter of course by previous White Houses, including Trump’s first-term White House.
At some point between the evening of Saturday, May 17, and the afternoon of Monday, May 19, though, the White House pulled down all of Trump’s transcripts that had been posted — along with several of Vice President JD Vance’s transcripts and two of press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s – and replaced them with videos of Trump’s speeches, according to pages preserved by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine tool.
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