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Greg Sargent
Trump doctored a weather chart and ordered a rear admiral to release a statement backing up his falsehoods. The NOAA also jumped to Trump's defense, and the White House won't say if they engineered it. By my count, something like this has happened at least 7 times. *THREAD*
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Greg Sargent 7. ruj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @ThePlumLineGS
Again and again, government officials have wheeled into action in an effort to make Trump’s lies, errors and obsessions into truths, in some cases issuing “official” information explicitly shaped or doctored to do so. I will tweet out 7 examples.
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Greg Sargent 7. ruj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @ThePlumLineGS
1) Multiple White House and administration officials issued official statements or were sent to hunt for evidence to prop up Trump's lies about his paltry inaugural crowd size:
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Greg Sargent 7. ruj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @ThePlumLineGS
2) The White House set up an official commission to validate Trump's repeated lies about voter fraud in the 2016 election. Remember, those lies were rooted in Trump's rage over losing the popular vote:
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Greg Sargent 7. ruj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @ThePlumLineGS
3) When Trump lied wildly about Middle Easterners and terrorists infiltrating the migrant caravan, multiple officials pushed an entirely bogus "official" statistic designed to support Trump's claims:
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Greg Sargent 7. ruj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @ThePlumLineGS
4) When Trump fake-promised a 10 percent middle class tax cut just before the midterms, multiple officials wheeled into *official* action to make it look as if this was a real thing. It wasn't:
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Greg Sargent 7. ruj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @Acosta
5) To justify suspending the credentials of CNN reporter Jim after he enraged Trump, Sarah Sanders shared a video deceptively doctored to disgustingly smear Acosta:
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Greg Sargent 7. ruj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @Acosta
6) After Trump fearmongered about the border by concocting a wildly false story about the binding and gagging of migrant women that was flatly debunked, a top border official went on an internal hunt for official "information" to make the story true:
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Greg Sargent 7. ruj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @Acosta
7) To buttress Trump's nonstop distortions and lies about the migrant threat, the Department of Homeland Security issued a slick, official "presentation" that used a statistic to "support" his claims that was flat-out bogus nonsense:
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Ken Carroll 7. ruj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @ThePlumLineGS
This NOAA tweet undermines NWS/NOAA and thereby endangers any Americans in the future path of a storm. Trump previously released highly sensitive satellite imagery and other intelligence and promised Putin he’d send FBI agents to be questioned in Russia. How can anyone support T
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Mary Kit Caelsto (author/editor/tech va) 7. ruj
Odgovor korisniku/ci @Crumlinfinglas @ThePlumLineGS
The problem is, as someone who watches the weather closely and lives on the edge of a weather area, the NWS has lost serious credibility in the trump era. I notice less warnings, less solid forecasts, and no coordination with neighboring NWS (I'm on the MO/AR border)
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