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Trump displays hurricane map doctored to support his tweet that Dorian threatened Alabama. (It did not)
Published: Sept 4, 2019 9:00 p.m. ET
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‘I don’t know,’ president says when asked if obviously altered map had been altered
 Reuters
President Donald Trump holds a chart showing the original projected track of Hurricane Dorian that appears to have been extended with a black line to include parts of the Florida panhandle and the state of Alabama.
By
MIKEMURPHY
EDITOR
In what appeared to be a bizarre attempt to justify a days-old tweet, President Donald Trump on Wednesday publicly displayed a doctored, nearly week-old image of Hurricane Dorian’s projected path, in an apparent effort to save face by claiming he was right when he wrongly said Alabama was at risk.
In fact, Alabama was never at risk, according to the National Weather Service. After causing catastrophic damage in the Bahamas, Dorian is now off the Florida coast and headed up the Atlantic seaboard. About 3 million people from Florida to North Carolina have been warned to evacuate.
Read: Dorian’s death toll rises to 20 in Bahamas, and expected to grow
On Sunday morning, as Dorian was still approaching the Bahamas and its potential U.S. landfall was unclear, Trump tweeted that, in addition to Florida, “South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated.”
However, Alabama was not in the storm’s “cone of uncertainty,” and about 20 minutes after Trump’s tweet the National Weather Service tweeted: “Alabama will NOT see any impacts from #Dorian.”
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