Trump doubles down on the Alabama lie and pulls NOAA deeper into the swamp
The president spent September 5 trying to turn a busted forecast claim into a victory lap, insisting again that Hurricane Dorian had threatened Alabama even after his own weather agencies had corrected him. The fight kept growing because Trump did not just repeat the error; he used a doctored-looking map, leaned on vague talk about “models,” and forced federal scientists to spend another day cleaning up his mess. What should have been a simple factual correction had already metastasized into a full-blown credibility problem for the White House and the weather service alike.
First recorded Sep 5, 2019·Meaningfully updated Sep 5, 2019
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Trump doubles down on the Alabama lie and pulls NOAA deeper into the swamp
The president spent September 5 trying to turn a busted forecast claim into a victory lap, insisting again that Hurricane Dorian had threatened Alabama even after his own weather agencies had corrected him. The fight kept growing because Trump did not just repeat the error; he used a doctored-looking map, leaned on vague talk about “models,” and forced federal scientists to spend another day cleaning up his mess. What should have been a simple factual correction had already metastasized into a …
The president spent September 5 trying to turn a busted forecast claim into a victory lap, insisting again that Hurricane Dorian had threatened Alabama even after his own weather agencies had corrected him. The fight kept growing because Trump did not just repeat the error; he used a doctored-looking map, leaned on vague talk about “models,” and forced federal scientists to spend another day cleaning up his mess. Wh…
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