Commentary: 'Sharpiegate' is nothing to laugh at. It's one more example of Trump's unchecked presidential powers
by Steven D. Schwinn, Los Angeles Times
Sep 11, 2019
3 minutes
When a White House Sharpie user recently doctored a National Hurricane Center map to expand the projected path of Hurricane Dorian to Alabama, media critics and the Twitter-verse exploded. Here's proof positive, they said, that President Trump ignores reality and literally stretches the truth to serve his own political purposes and to stroke his own fragile ego.
They claimed that his stubborn fixation on the issue - and the later validation of his position by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - only proved their
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