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Emails Show Federal Officials Panicked Over Trump’s Fake Hurricane Map

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A trove of more than 1,000 emails released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request shows how President Trump’s fake hurricane map triggered an internal revolt among top officials at the National Weather Service and NOAA.

A trove of more than 1,000 emails released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request shows how President Trump’s fake hurricane map triggered an internal revolt among top officials at the National Weather Service and NOAA.

  1. A trove of more than 1,000 emails reveal how top officials at the National Weather Service and NOAA freaked out over Trump’s “doctored” hurricane map

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  2. WOW. These emails underscore how angry NOAA officials were about the Hurricane Dorian tweets by Trump and how NOAA handled and responded to the controversy (and sharpiegate). "You have no idea how hard I’m fighting to keep politics out of science..."

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  3. WHOA! Hell of an email from NOAA official Craig McLean to NOAA's chief and other top officials: "What concerns me most is that this Administration is eroding the public trust in NOAA for an apparent political recovery from an ill timed and imprecise comment from the President"

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  4. WOW!! BIG FIND in the NOAA document dump tonight by re: Hurricane Dorian and the map Trump showed during the WH briefing "Yes that was doctored"

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  5. Approximately a lifetime ago, our public scientists took a political hit for sticking to actual data-driven forecasts instead of coddling ego. This late Friday FOIA dump gets into how important credibility is during disaster work.

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  7. Fascinating look into the inner workings of how senior NWS/NOAA management responded to the Sharpie crisis. It is long but lots of interesting nuggets in there! This HELP email from NHC pretty accurately portrayed the feelings at the time...

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  8. So good. And such a fun win. Trump’s fake hurricane map triggered panic and an internal revolt among top officials at the National Weather Service and NOAA, according to a trove of more than 1,000 emails released Friday night to

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  9. "This one did sneak up on us," one NASA expert wrote in an internal email about the football-field-sized asteroid that narrowly missed the planet

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