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View in browser SEPTEMBER 4, 2019 From MaddowBlog, by Steve Benen:
It’s probably fair to say much of the country has grown accustomed to a certain degree of absurdity surrounding the Donald Trump presidency, but once in a while, the president pushes the envelope.
Over the weekend, President Trump published a tweet that included Alabama among the states “most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated” by Hurricane Dorian.
Twenty minutes later, the National Weather Service, while not referencing the president specifically, published a tweet of its own, telling the public, “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.”
When news organizations noted the president’s error, Trump was outraged, but the story soon faded – but not for long.
At an Oval Office briefing Wednesday, Trump insisted on holding up a map from last week showing a trajectory of Hurricane Dorian that’s no longer accurate.
But, the president didn’t just hold up an outdated image; he showed everyone an old map that featured a drawn-in bulge. Why was that there? Because in this crudely manipulated image, Alabama was at risk.
At a separate event on opioids, Trump added, “I know that Alabama was in the original forecast, they thought it would get a piece of it…. They gave it a 95 percent chance.”
Asked about the discrepancies between the original map and the one that had been crudely edited and shown to the public today, Trump said, “I don’t know. I don’t know.”
Disseminating ‘knowingly’ false weather reports is against federal law.
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