Bernie Sanders: Trump weather map incident 'outrageous' and it shows 'authoritarian' impulses

[Uncle Joe]

(snip)

Chuckles rippled through the crowd, but Sanders did not pause for laughter.

“What was really scary about that, he got the appropriate agency, the NOAA, to change their views in order to correspond with his,” Sanders continued. “And that's what authoritarianism is about. You do what the guy on top wants, not what the facts are about."

Sanders went further in an interview with the Register Monday. Regardless of your politics, he said, people should not want “a president who is moving this country forward into an authoritarian direction and who is, in fact, a pathological liar."

“The function of the agency (at) hand is to give the American people accurate and important information on weather, storms and hurricanes, and not simply say what the president of the United States said is right,” Sanders said. “So both of those factors, concerning what the president did, was ludicrous and outrageous. But it is even more frightening that we have an agency of government whose job is to provide incredibly important information to the American people backing up the president even when he's dead wrong."

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2019/09/09/bernie-sanders-donald-trump-sharpie-dorian-map-noaa-hurricane-weather/2266082001/

[George II]

1. (three or four days after everyone else said so) - THANK YOU Senator Sanders!

[NurseJackie]

2. He's been busy... just now watching Rachel's coverage on VHS.

Be kind. Please rewind.