Trump called Fox News correspondent into Oval Office to argue he wasn't wrong about Alabama

[RandySF]

CNN)Fox News senior White House correspondent John Roberts had just finished his 3 p.m. live shot on Thursday when President Donald Trump beckoned him into the Oval Office.

The President had one argument to make, according to an internal Fox email Roberts sent about the meeting provided to CNN.

"He stressed to me that forecasts for Dorian last week had Alabama in the warning cone," Roberts wrote. "He insisted that it is unfair to say Alabama was never threatened by the storm."

Roberts' analysis of the meeting was that the President was "just looking for acknowledgment that he was not wrong for saying that at some point, Alabama was at risk -- even if the situation had changed by the time he issued the tweet" on Sunday morning, in which he said the state "will most likely be hit." The President also provided Roberts with graphics to make his points.

Roberts referred CNN to Fox News' public relations department when asked for comment, which did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment.

The White House also did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment. Trump has defended his tweet multiple times throughout the day on Twitter, repeatedly slamming the media for covering his statements and his use of an apparently altered chart showing the storm's path extending into Alabama.
"Just as I said, Alabama was originally projected to be hit. The Fake News denies it!" Trump tweeted on Thursday, along with graphics from the National Weather Service from last week -- days before his tweet -- showing Alabama had a small chance of experiencing some effects from Dorian. By the time Trump tweeted, those forecasts had changed.

A White House aide familiar with the Oval Office meeting with Roberts said that Trump also voiced his displeasure about Fox News anchor Shepard Smith's skeptical reporting about the Alabama map.




https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/05/politics/donald-trump-alabama-fox-news-white-house/index.html

[Bleacher Creature]

1. He's truly coockoo for Cocoa Puffs. NT

[gordianot]

2. Good luck bottling genies, and reviving dead horses.

[BlueStater]

3. No normal human being acts like this.

He's a fucking wacko and all of Congress is either too damn corrupt or cowardly to do anything about him. This country is an utter mess.

[UTUSN]

4. T. Roosevelt had a big stick. SHITLER has a Sharpie!1

[RockRaven]

5. Alabama was NEVER "in the warning cone"

The lies pile up and up and up in a totally incoherent mess, which oddly resembles whatever that is which sits on top of his head.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Yet another self-inflicted mess.

This guy is pathetic.

[Tanuki]

7. ....