White House again forced to alter transcript following Biden’s ‘Lincoln’ Riley blunder

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President Joe Biden‘s staff had to alter the official transcript of his State of the Union speech following a high-profile gaffe, repeating a pattern that’s occurring with some frequency in 2024.

In one of the speech’s defining and most bizarre moments, Biden held up a button given to him by firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA). The sticker read “Say Her Name, Laken Riley,” in reference to a Georgia college student who was allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant.

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