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Trump may have broken federal law by altering Hurricane Dorian's path on a map.
4 Sep 2019 4:12 pm
President Donald Trump may have broken federal law by altering a map from the National Hurricane Center to lend credence to his false claim over the weekend that Alabama was in the path of Hurricane Dorian.
The map showed a semicircle of black ink (made with a sharpie) that extended the farthest reaches of Dorian's impact cone beyond Florida and into Alabama.
The National Hurricane Center did not include Alabama in its forecast, and some observers pointed out on Wednesday that Trump's altered map may have violated the law.
"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 imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both," the relevant part of the US Code reads.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-m ... map-2019-9
Just saw him on TV still sticking with his lie that Alabama was in the original forecast.
And the King of the black sharpie has no idea how that black mark got on the map.
The man is so incapable of ever admitting he was wrong about anything that it looks like he may have altered an official NOAA map, which is illegal.
The original Tweet:
The Birmingham National Weather Service correction:
