Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross threatened to fire top officials for refusing to go along with Trump's lie about Hurricane Dorian
in an agency-wide directive to “only stick with official National Hurricane Center forecasts if questions arise from some national level social media posts which hit the news this afternoon” and encouraged not to “provide any opinion.” National Weather Service Employees Organization president Dan Sobien on Friday night. “What they did is just disgusting.”
That Sunday tweet that NOAA belatedly sought to disown had declared that “Alabama will NOT see any impacts from Dorian. We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane Dorian will be felt across Alabama.
A senior administration official told the Times that what actually happened is that NOAA initially got it wrong and later corrected the record, suggesting without evidence that the original forecast “had been motivated by a desire to embarrass the president more than concern for the safety of people in Alabama,” according to theThe Times report added that Louis Uccellini, the director of the National Weather Service — a NOAA subsidiary — “got a standing ovation from conference attendees when he...
But even if some nefarious meteorologist really did have it out for Trump, it doesn’t explain how could Trump would possibly know more about the storm than the scientists at NOAA’s Birmingham office. He claimed to be relying upon the agency’s forecasts, after all.
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