.MaddowBlog: Why Pres. Trump's Commerce Sec. Ross reportedly threatened to fire NOAA officials.
Close video The Rachel Maddow Show, 9/9/19, 9:00 PM ET Roiled by Trump politics, NOAA seeks accountability, atonement Rachel Maddow reports on the backlash within the weather science community over an unsigned statement from NOAA supporting Donald Trump’s false claims about the path of Hurricane Dorian, praise for the team that stood up to Trump’s misinformation, and the share tweet email save Embed After a week of farcical presidential antics, Donald Trump’s campaign to politicize hurricane...
[A]ccording to the three people familiar with his actions. Mr. Ross phoned Neil Jacobs, the acting administrator of NOAA, from Greece where the secretary was traveling for meetings and instructed Dr. Jacobs to fix the agency’s perceived contradiction of the president. There’s no shortage of angles to a story like this. There are the potentially dangerous consequences, for example, of politicizing and undermining public confidence in weather forecasts. There’s the question of authoritarian strong-arm tactics in which government officials are told that the misjudgments of The Leader must be made true, science and reality be damned.
He’s also reportedly misled the public about his wealth and faced awkward questions about whether he honored his commitments about divesting from his private-sector holdings before taking office.
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