White House Pressed Agency to Repudiate Weather Forecasters Who Contradicted Trump
Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON The White House was directly involved in pressing a federal scientific agency to repudiate the weather forecasters who contradicted President Trumps claim that Hurricane Dorian would probably strike Alabama, according to several people familiar with the events.
Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, told Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary, to have the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration publicly disavow the forecasters position that Alabama was not at risk. NOAA, which is part of the Commerce Department, issued an unsigned statement last Friday in response, saying that the Birmingham, Ala., office was wrong to dispute the presidents warning.
In pressing NOAAs acting administrator to take action, Mr. Ross warned that top employees at the agency could be fired if the situation was not addressed, The New York Times previously reported. Mr. Rosss spokesman has denied that he threatened to fire anyone, and a senior administration official on Wednesday said Mr. Mulvaney did not tell the commerce secretary to make such a threat.
The release of the NOAA statement provoked complaints that the Trump administration was improperly intervening in the professional weather forecasting system to justify the presidents mistaken assertion. The Commerce Departments inspector general is investigating how that statement came to be issued, saying it could call into question scientific independence.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/us/politics/trump-alabama-noaa.html
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,661 posts)trusty elf
(7,383 posts)targetpractice
(4,919 posts)... She was, unfortunately, a raging narcissist. All this behavior seems so familiar and predictable.
Gothmog
(145,079 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,748 posts)one wonders?
The "season" isn't over until the end of November. Will Mulvaney become the Chief weather forecaster for the nation?
truthisfreedom
(23,141 posts)riversedge
(70,182 posts)KPN
(15,642 posts)70sEraVet
(3,483 posts)Fake tornado warnings in blue districts on election day? Repressing dire weather-warnings on the day of one of his rallies, to ensure a big turnout?
tanyev
(42,541 posts)until there is some type of apology given. For the love of God, just give us something we can show him!"*
*A presumed quote
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,881 posts)the J is for jenius.