Report Shows White House Ordered Changes to Public Record on Hurricane Dorian to Appease Trump

[SouthernCal_Dem]

Source: Mediaite

A critical report by Commerce Department inspector General Peggy Gustafson, first published by the Washington Post, reveals that then-White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney ordered changes to the public record on Hurricane Dorian in order to appease President Donald Trump.

In September 2019, the president falsely claimed in a tweet that Hurricane Dorian would impact Alabama, writing that the state would “most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated.”

The National Weather Service (NWS) in Birmingham took to Twitter to assuage concerns from residents, promising, “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.”

In a scandal later known as “Sharpiegate,” the president then displayed a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) map that appeared to be altered with a Sharpie to show that the Hurricane would hit Alabama. The map on the NOAA website was almost exactly the same, but it did not include the added black line.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/trump/sharpiegate-report-shows-white-house-ordered-changes-to-public-record-on-hurricane-dorian-to-appease-trump/

[dalton99a]

1. He'll revise Pi to a beautiful number in the second term

[erronis]

3. Does he even know what Π is?

Something to wash down with diet coke (or other stimulants/depressants)?

[IronLionZion]

9. He'll add ice cream to it

2 scoops!

[lagomorph777]

13. Of course he knows what pee is.

Deeelicious.

[lagomorph777]

12. Oh, c'mon; that's irrational.

[erronis]

14. To be fair, he never said he was a rational type, just a stable hand.

He's had so much experience grabbing a shaft or a kitty-kat.

Ok, I'm reaching a bit...

[erronis]

2. How soon, lord, how soon? Can we be rid of these evil people?

I don't normally pray and don't know how to pray, but I'm willing to do a lot of things to make trump and his slime go away.

I hear sprinkling salt on them might work.

[Evolve Dammit]

7. Works on leeches, so yeah. I'm going with garlic and wolfbain as well....

[RAB910]

4. Welcome to the real life 1984

[BigmanPigman]

5. Why doesn't he get his Sharpie out again and change the weather on Sat

for his New Hampshire rally?

[packman]

6. Jesuss- Talking about beating a dead horse

Like a mentally-challenged bulldog (no insult intended) who won't let a festering, maggot covered bone alone. "DAMMIT- We're going to rewrite history over and over again until they get it right. Our right, not yours"

[world wide wally]

8. This is a grown man?

[Elwood P Dowd]

10. Can you imagine the explosion if Obama did this?

Your TV set would catch on fire because of the screaming heat from the repuke blowhards. Every house and senate committee run by repukes would have weeks of hearings. All the corporate news anchors would be relentless in their condemnation of Obama. It would be hell on earth for weeks.

[alp227]

11. IG Gustafson began her job mere days before Trump

https://www.commerce.gov/about/leadership/peggy-gustafson

Peggy E. (Peg) Gustafson was sworn in as the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Commerce on January 9, 2017. Ms. Gustafson was nominated by the President in March 2016 and confirmed by the Senate on December 10, 2016.

Before assuming her new post, Ms. Gustafson was the Inspector General of the U.S. Small Business Administration, a position she had held since October 2009. She previously served as General Counsel to Claire McCaskill (D-MO), where she advised the Senator on government oversight issues and helped write two bills that have significantly strengthened the federal offices of Inspectors General: the Inspector General Reform Act of 2008 and the legislation that strengthened the office of Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

[tanyev]

15. Talking Points Memo printed a reader email today with an interesting and completely plausible theory

There is another possibly comical aspect to SharpieGate that I don’t think has been commented on, even when the event was first being reported. It’s true that the line drawn on the map does include part of Alabama, but the actual area of Alabama’s coastline included in the circle is minuscule. To the untrained eye, it might appear that the longitudinal line that bisects Florida’s panhandle on the map is the Alabama border but, of course, that is not true. I always assumed that Trump mistook the portion of the Florida panhandle that lies to the west of the longitudinal line for the coastline of Alabama. In fact, Trump’s alteration seems designed to highlight only the Florida panhandle.

I think that it was Trump’s inability to correctly read a map that precipitated this entire mess. It would make perfect sense to believe that Alabama might be impacted by Dorian if you didn’t actually know where Florida ends and Alabama begins.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/sharpie-hurricane-trump-noaa