Report Shows White House Ordered Changes to Public Record on Hurricane Dorian to Appease Trump
Source: Mediaite
A critical report by Commerce Department inspector General Peggy Gustafson, first published by the Washington Post, reveals that then-White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney ordered changes to the public record on Hurricane Dorian in order to appease President Donald Trump.
In September 2019, the president falsely claimed in a tweet that Hurricane Dorian would impact Alabama, writing that the state would most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated.
The National Weather Service (NWS) in Birmingham took to Twitter to assuage concerns from residents, promising, Alabama will NOT see any impacts from #Dorian. We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane #Dorian will be felt across Alabama. The system will remain too far east.
In a scandal later known as Sharpiegate, the president then displayed a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) map that appeared to be altered with a Sharpie to show that the Hurricane would hit Alabama. The map on the NOAA website was almost exactly the same, but it did not include the added black line.
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/trump/sharpiegate-report-shows-white-house-ordered-changes-to-public-record-on-hurricane-dorian-to-appease-trump/
dalton99a
(81,526 posts)erronis
(15,303 posts)Something to wash down with diet coke (or other stimulants/depressants)?
IronLionZion
(45,460 posts)2 scoops!
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Deeelicious.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)erronis
(15,303 posts)He's had so much experience grabbing a shaft or a kitty-kat.
Ok, I'm reaching a bit...
erronis
(15,303 posts)I don't normally pray and don't know how to pray, but I'm willing to do a lot of things to make trump and his slime go away.
I hear sprinkling salt on them might work.
Evolve Dammit
(16,743 posts)RAB910
(3,504 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)for his New Hampshire rally?
packman
(16,296 posts)Like a mentally-challenged bulldog (no insult intended) who won't let a festering, maggot covered bone alone. "DAMMIT- We're going to rewrite history over and over again until they get it right. Our right, not yours"
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)Your TV set would catch on fire because of the screaming heat from the repuke blowhards. Every house and senate committee run by repukes would have weeks of hearings. All the corporate news anchors would be relentless in their condemnation of Obama. It would be hell on earth for weeks.
alp227
(32,034 posts)tanyev
(42,572 posts)I think that it was Trumps inability to correctly read a map that precipitated this entire mess. It would make perfect sense to believe that Alabama might be impacted by Dorian if you didnt actually know where Florida ends and Alabama begins.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/sharpie-hurricane-trump-noaa