The White House isn’t sending out daily transcripts of the press briefings and they’re also not archiving them on the White House website. The only briefing provided there is Sean Spicer’s first—the briefing to end all briefings, a full-tilt rant followed by no questions.
We realize these briefings have been embarrassing and even “demoralizing” escapades in which Spicer tries to turn the Yammer in Chief’s tirades into lemonade, but there ought to be documentation. It’s one of the primary duties of White House officials as the country’s foremost public servants to provide a public record of events, including press briefings.
The White House of popular vote loser Donald Trump has already scrubbed climate change information from its official site (and they’re working on doing the same at the EPA site), but maybe their retroactive “alternative facts” are just the tip of the iceberg. If there’s no official record of events, did they really happen? Only Donald Trump knows.