Trump denies ordering NOAA to rebuke forecasters over Dorian
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September 12, 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday denied instructing an aide to urge a federal agency to repudiate weather forecasters who contradicted his claim that Hurricane Dorian could hit Alabama.
Trump responded to a New York Times report that acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to have the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration publicly disavow the position that Alabama was not at risk.
A senior administration official told The Associated Press Wednesday night that Mulvaney pushed Ross to "fix" the issue with the Alabama fore...
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