The Commerce Secretary’s threat reportedly led to the unsigned statement from NOAA suddenly saying that Trump had been right about Hurricane Dorian threatening to hit Alabama.
The Secretary of Commerce threatened to fire top employees at NOAA on Friday after the agency’s Birmingham office contradicted President Trump’s claim that Hurricane Dorian might hit Alabama, according to three people familiar with the discussion. That threat led to an unusual, unsigned statement later that Friday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration disavowing the office’s own position that Alabama was not at risk….
Of course, it’s not that hard to see Ross threatening to fire someone for insufficient ring-kissing. The Commerce Secretary is the resident cartoon villain of the administration, a former private equity executive who previously served as the president of a Wall Street “fraternity” whose
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