Trump tries to reroute hurricane to fit his reality, continuing a pattern
by Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times
Sep 05, 2019
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - Even as Hurricane Dorian roared up the East Coast on Thursday and hammered the Carolinas with dangerous wind and storm surges, President Donald Trump refused to retreat from a related storm of his own making.
Over the last five days, he has repeatedly claimed that the life-threatening storm could have hit Alabama despite the National Weather Service's assurance that the state could rest easy.
He even held up a crudely doctored map in the Oval Office that showed a hand-drawn black line extending the hurricane's trajectory into the southeastern corner of
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