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jpak

(41,757 posts) Fri Sep 6, 2019, 11:12 AM Sep 2019

Washington Post: Trump was the one who altered Dorian trajectory map with Sharpie

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/06/politics/trump-sharpie-hurricane-dorian-alabama/index.html

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump was the one who used a black Sharpie marker to alter an official National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration map to include Alabama in Hurricane Dorian's trajectory during an Oval Office presentation earlier this week, The Washington Post reported.

"No one else writes like that on a map with a black Sharpie," a White House official who spoke on the condition of anonymity told the Post.

Since Sunday, Trump has aggressively defended his false claim that Hurricane Dorian was likely to hit Alabama, even after the National Weather Service stressed that "no impacts from Hurricane Dorian will be felt across Alabama."

During an Oval Office briefing on Wednesday, Trump claimed that the marked-up NOAA map was the original forecast, although a similar image released from the White House last week did not include perimeters to show that Alabama would be affected.

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Washington Post: Trump was the one who altered Dorian trajectory map with Sharpie (Original Post) jpak Sep 2019 OP

Of course he did it. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2019 #1

I've been growling about how the so-called "pResident" is a fucking five-year-old. calimary Sep 2019 #5

Wait he stood right in front of reporters and denied he did it. Is it possible he was lying? usaf-vet Sep 2019 #12

The couch was on fire when I sat down on it Bob Loblaw Sep 2019 #14

of course he expects Larrybanal Sep 2019 #15

Trump is priming the public for adjustment of maps with Sharpies bucolic_frolic Sep 2019 #2

Trump himself said he didn't know (three times, just like Peter!) gratuitous Sep 2019 #3

But you know Needy Amin malaise Sep 2019 #4

Needy Amin?!?!!?! ROLF!!!!! calimary Sep 2019 #6

Not me at all - gratuitous is the DUer who came up with that one malaise Sep 2019 #7

Some of the minds here are just a whole buncha awesome! calimary Sep 2019 #9

So true malaise Sep 2019 #11

oh, then its okay yaesu Sep 2019 #8

Golly gosh! No one would have expected that! struggle4progress Sep 2019 #10

No one else wryter2000 Sep 2019 #13

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,659 posts)

1. Of course he did it.

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Fri Sep 6, 2019, 11:56 AM

Sep 2019

And of course he lied about it. He's like the kid who's standing in the kitchen over a broken cookie jar and with cookie crumbs all over his face claiming he didn't take any cookies. But only a four-year-old or Trump would lie like that and expect people to believe him.