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riversedge

(69,713 posts)
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 07:19 PM Sep 2019

Fox News correspondent destroys President Trump's false claim about Hurricane Dorian's path

Source: salon




Eric W. Dolan September 5, 2019 5:12PM (UTC)


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“Alabama was going to be hit or grazed, and then Hurricane Dorian took a different path (up along the East Coast). The Fake News knows this very well. That’s why they’re the Fake News!” Trump tweeted on Thursday.

About an hour later, Fox News White House correspondent John Roberts explained why Trump was wrong.

“The president tweeted out a graphic of hurricane model plots . . . to prove that Alabama was at risk and some of those tracks did come very close to the eastern part of Alabama,” he said.

“But those spaghetti models were from Thursday, August 28th. By the time the president tweeted about Alabama at 10:51 a.m. on Sunday, the forecast track had moved well east.”
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“This is the 8:00 in the morning warning on Sunday the 1st, and you can see they’re indicating that Dorian would stay well-off shore and well away from Alabama,” Roberts explained.

Read more: https://www.salon.com/2019/09/05/fox-news-correspondent-destroys-president-trumps-false-claim-about-hurricane-dorians-path_partner/



Trump just continues to show the world he is a big FOOL.




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Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
1. When he tells one of his 100 daily lies or commits one of his 3-4 daily felonies
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 07:21 PM
Sep 2019

we can ever be sure if it is under direct orders from putin since he is under those orders or just his sociopathic behavour.

Worst human alive and half of this country adores him, which is why our problem is MUCH bigger than that child.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
3. Agreed. I have a family member who was shown to have lied about some money and
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 07:30 PM
Sep 2019

the person who exposed them as the liar has been ragged on and hated by that person ever since, 5 years or more.

Said family member is a sociopath narcissist and that is how they operate.

If you cross them or show them to be liars, WATCH the FUCK out they will spend their ENTIRE life trying to DESTROY you.

durablend

(7,416 posts)
4. Incoming
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 07:44 PM
Sep 2019

"IDK WHY FOX NEWS KEEPS SIDING WITH THE LEFT. AFTER ALL I'VE DONE FOR THEM THIS HOW THEY REPAY ME! MAYBE I SHOULD TELL MY GOOD SUPPORTERS THEY SHOULD WATCH ANOTHER NETWORK!"

oldsoftie

(12,410 posts)
5. When he said that, i wondered "What other network would that be??"
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 07:48 PM
Sep 2019

They sure wont watch CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, HLN. What else is there

trueblue2007

(17,138 posts)
6. TRUMP HAS BROKEN THE LAW. 18 USC 2074.
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 08:08 PM
Sep 2019

18 U.S. Code § 2074 - False weather reports | U.S. Code | US Law | LII ...

Cornell.edu › law › ... › Chapter 101. RECORDS AND REPORTS
Whoever knowingly issues or publishes any counterfeit weather forecast or warning of weather conditions falsely representing such forecast or warning to have been issued or published by the Weather Bureau, United States Signal Service, or other branch of the Government service, shall be fined under this title or ...

EarthFirst

(2,877 posts)
8. Listen...if collusion & treason; obstruction; sexual misconduct & pedophilia won't take him down...
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 08:51 PM
Sep 2019

A weather graphic sure as shit isn’t going to!

Evolve Dammit

(16,632 posts)
7. That guy holding the chart is the "Acting" Homeland Security Director. Seriously.
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 08:49 PM
Sep 2019

Whose Sharpie was it, Mr. Acting Director? Your, Trumps or the coffee boys??

groundloop

(11,486 posts)
9. DAMN.... Faux Noise got something right. Yes, EARLY Dorian models showed it coming into the Gulf.
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 08:56 PM
Sep 2019

But as Faux Noise stated, that was on Thursday and tRumps idiotic statement was on Sunday. If he'd have been keeping up with the information on Dorian, as he claimed, he'd have known that the storm was no longer predicted to cross the Florida peninsula into the Gulf, hence zero threat to Alabama.

As one of the late night hosts pointed out, at least tRump was good enough at geography to know where Alabama is.

What's striking is that the stupid bastard could have easily avoided this bullshit in at least two ways. First, if he'd have just done a teeny tiny little bit of homework he'd have never made that statement in the first place. Barring that, all he had to do was say "oops, I misspoke" and it would have been over with. Instead we have YET ANOTHER instance of the 4 year old lying instead of admitting he made a mistake.

tclambert

(11,080 posts)
11. He deeply cares about being called a liar, yet doesn't care to keep up to date on a cat 5 hurricane.
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 10:04 PM
Sep 2019

AllyCat

(16,034 posts)
12. I give Faux no quarter on this.
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 10:44 PM
Sep 2019

They have done so much damage to our democracy that suddenly starting a little ratings boost by pretending to lambast Tre45on is not going to cut it. When they start reporting truth and helping our democracy, I might take a second look.

Right now, they are just part of the problem, no matter what they might say about the abomination that sits in our White House.

lark

(23,003 posts)
15. The second it passed the Bahamas and didn't hit Mar-a-cheater, he had zero interest.
Fri Sep 6, 2019, 08:22 AM
Sep 2019

You could see it in the televised photo op, err so-called but not briefing. He had zero interest and was totally not there except in body. It was actually scary how demented and asleep he appeared. It was so obvious that ass-smell is a menace to our country and the world.

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