Trump misled the public about Dorian - three times in a row
Trump is unwilling to admit he is wrong and makes things up-over and over
Trump misled the public about Dorian – three times in a row
https://mailchi.mp/cnn/rs-sept-2-2019-2
This is a story about President Trump spreading false info during an emergency situation. Not once or twice -- three times.
On Monday evening, when ABC pointed out that Trump was wrong, he called the report "phony" and insisted that he was right. But his own National Weather Service (NWS) had said he was wrong.
I wanted to be really precise, so I included all the time stamps in my write-up for CNN.com. The story starts on Sunday morning, at 10:51 a.m. ET, when Trump tweeted out a warning about Dorian. He included Alabama in his list of affected states. But he was incorrect. Local meteorologists and the Birmingham, Alabama, branch of the NWS said so. But Trump repeated the error two more times on-camera. That's why I think this incident is a big deal. Who misled him? When? Did anyone try to correct the misinformation?
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So who misinformed POTUS about the forecast track? It is unclear. Stephanie Grisham responded to my Q by saying: "At the briefing at Camp David, the President and others in attendance were told it was important that the focus shouldn't be on the 'line or track' of the hurricane. That despite where Dorian would ultimately make landfall, the 'expanse of the wind field is large' and there was still 'a lot of uncertainty.' His comments were simply noting those points, and with Alabama's proximity to Florida it makes sense." But this doesn't make sense. Florida and Alabama share a border, but Alabama is about 250 miles from the Florida east coast at its closest point. Check it for yourself on Google Maps.
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He’s probably just trying to get his Alabama base some of those sweet, sweet disaster dollars.
