Trump denies asking Mulvaney to pressure federal agency on hurricane claims
Donald Trump denied that his chief of staff (toady) Mick Mulvaney was acting on his orders when Mulvaney reportedly directed Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to pressure a federal agency to rebuke scientists who had contradicted Trump's hurricane claims.
“No, I never did that — I never did that,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday, dismissing the entire scandal as “a hoax by the fake news media.”
“When they talk about the hurricane and when they talk about Florida and Alabama, that is just fake news,” the president went on. “Right from the beginning, it was a fake story.”
The so-called fake news emanated first from Trump’s own Twitter account, when on Sept. 1 he warned that Alabama was among the states that “will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated,” a claim that was misleading based on the forecasted path of the storm at that time.
The National Weather Service in Birmingham quickly countered his assertion on social media, writing that “Alabama will NOT see any impacts from Dorian. We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane Dorian will be felt across Alabama.”
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backbone to be doing this on his own...the pos really needs some soap in his mouth....
