On President Donald Trump’s orders, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to strong-arm the NOAA into supporting President Donald Trump’s baseless insistence that Alabama was in Hurricane Dorian’s path.
Trump had been complaining about a tweet from the Birmingham, Alabama National Weather Service office correcting his false statements for days, according to the Washington Post.
That griping led Mulvaney to press Ross to obtain a public disavowal of the Birmingham statement from acting NOAA Administrator Neil Jacobs, as first reported by the New York Times.
Ross reportedly called Jacobs on Friday and threatened him and other political staffers with termination should they not obey. Later that day, an unsigned statement went up on the NOAA website criticizing the Birmingham office for speaking in “absolute terms.”
After news broke that Commerce Department Inspector General Peggy Gustafson was looking into the unsigned statement, Senate Democrats wrote her to specifically ask that she see if White House officials were directly involved.
So Mulvaney gets Employee of the Month, and it’s only September 11!
Category 5 shit storm continues to buffet our nation.
The psychological landscape of our country looks much like Abaco Island.
Is there any rational person who didn’t already know this?
Gee, what a shock…
Trump will deny it and call it fake news. Than at the next campaign rally, he’ll brag about how he forced the NOAA to do his bidding. Then at a subsequent press conference when pressed on his campaign rally admission, he’ll say he was just kidding.
Trump at a campaign rally, “I says Mulvaney, we can’t have the NOAA saying this stuff. I told Mulvaney to get over there and threaten their jobs. And the NOAA recanted. Boy did they recant”.