Trump’s White House Goes From Hiding 80% Of His Transcribed Remarks To Hiding 99.5% | EUROtoday

WASHINGTON — Mere days after HuffPost revealed how few of President Donald Trump’s transcribed remarks it was making public, his White House determined to submit none in any respect, save for his Jan. 20 inaugural tackle.

HuffPost’s May 15 report confirmed that, breaking from each earlier presidential administration in trendy instances, Trump’s second-term press workplace was releasing solely a small fraction of the transcripts produced by the nonpartisan civil servants who produce them at taxpayer expense.

Over his first 100 days in workplace, Trump’s White House had launched simply 29 of the 146 transcripts of his speeches, information conferences and interactions with information media. White House employees didn’t supply any cause for why they have been withholding materials that had been launched as a matter in fact by earlier White Houses, together with Trump’s first-term White House.

At some level between the night of Saturday, May 17, and the afternoon of Monday, May 19, although, the White House pulled down all of Trump’s transcripts that had been posted — together with a number of of Vice President JD Vance’s transcripts and two of press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s – and changed them with movies of Trump’s speeches, based on pages preserved by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine software.

The near-total purge was first reported by NBC.

The White House on Thursday once more refused to supply a proof for the change, however did present a press release from Leavitt that equates transcripts, which will be looked for sure phrases and names, with movies, which can not.

“The president’s remarks are live on the website for every person in the world, including journalists, to access and watch for themselves. The Trump White House is the most transparent in history,” Leavitt mentioned.

Neither of her assertions, nevertheless, is correct. The White House’s “Remarks” net web page now provides a curated pattern of movies of Trump’s remarks, with few of the interactions with information media that are likely to generate his most outlandish claims, or the occasions through which he exhibited notably unhinged habits. For instance, the Feb. 28 assembly with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, through which he and Vance primarily blamed Ukraine for getting invaded by Russia and demanded mineral concessions in trade for U.S. help, just isn’t posted on the web page. In all, the web page linked to solely 48 movies Thursday, out of some 200 whole units of remarks by that time.

What’s extra, whereas Trump interacts with the information media incessantly, he has refused to abide by primary transparency measures that earlier presidents have undertaken. Trump, for instance, has by no means launched any of his tax returns and his White House doesn’t make public its guests’ logs. While earlier presidents permitted reporters in to fundraisers, Trump has not.

And on Thursday, as Trump hosts 220 patrons of his memento crypto cash at his Virginia golf resort behind closed doorways, neither he nor the White House will launch an inventory of these attendees, who in whole spent $192 million for the privilege.