President's tweets 'repeatedly driving down stock market', as Pence under fire over staying at leader's Irish golf resort

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Trump misspells both Sadiq Khan's names in angry attack over criticism for golfing during deadly hurricane

Today, the president doctored a map of Hurricane Dorian's impact to pretend his earlier comments about the storm affecting Alabama were correct. Almost immediately after, he denied doing any such thing.

He also told reporters that vice president Mike Pence did not stay at his Ireland property at his request, which is a lie, according to earlier statements from Mr Pence.

Days on which Donald Trump tweets more than 35 times are regularly associated with negative stock market returns while days on which the president tweets five times or fewer yield positive results, according to a new study by Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Vice president Mike Pence is meanwhile under fire for staying at a Trump-owned golf resort in Doonbeg on the Atlantic coast during his trip to Ireland, forcing him to fly 181 miles across the country to attend meetings with the country's leaders in Dublin.

Back in the US, the Pentagon has given the go-ahead for $3.6bn (£2.9bn) to be diverted towards the president's US-Mexico border wall from 127 different military construction project while Hurricane Dorian approaches the Florida coast after decimating the Bahamas.

Later in the evening, Democrats discussed climate change in a CNN town hall with Wolf Blitzer. The president will likely use the event to continue to deny climate change.

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Key Points

• Trump's tweeting linked to stock market falls by Bank of America
• Mike Pence derided for staying at president's golf resort on Ireland trip 
• Pentagon diverts $3.6bn to border wall from 127 military construction projects
• Trump says he's 'sending crews' to Bahamas as hurricane reaches Florida coast
• Democrats link Dorian to climate change as Warren unveils new plan

[4 September 2019 19:19 · Lily Puckett]

Trump lies constantly, but here's a particularly egregious case. The president claimed a Republican senator from North Carolina requested the state being granted a state of emergency status ahead of Hurricane Dorian. But this isn't true: it's the state's governor who sends that request, under federal law. But North Carolina's governor is a Democrat. The Washington Post has the story here:

Trump said he granted a disaster declaration at the request of North Carolina’s Republican senator. It came from the state’s Democratic governor.Washington PostWith Hurricane Dorian heading toward the Tar Heel State, the president appeared to inject politics into the federal emergency process. Sen. Thom Tillis is up for reelection next year.

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[4 September 2019 19:45 · Lily Puckett]

And then there's this:

[4 September 2019 20:05 · Lily Puckett]

Looks like Trump's revised hurricane map is actually a violation of this federal law:

"Whoever knowingly issues or publishes any counterfeit weather forecast or warning of weather conditions falsely representing such forecast or warning to have been issued or published by the Weather Bureau, United States Signal Service, or other branch of the Government service, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both."

But given the president's entire period in office, it's unlikely that absolutely any consequences will come from this. 

[4 September 2019 20:25 · Lily Puckett]

Here's what Trump is saying about the doctored photo:

And here are the official maps from the National Hurricane Center, which still don't show Alabama being affected. There are no better maps. 

[4 September 2019 20:46 · Lily Puckett]

He also lied about the vice president's recent trip to his Ireland property:

What a day.

[4 September 2019 21:25 · Lily Puckett]

He's still at it:

For what it's worth, the weather in both the Alabama and Florida areas in the sharpie-doctored spot is fine. 

[4 September 2019 22:24 · Lily Puckett]

Democrats have begun a CNN-hosted town hall focusing on climate change. The event is slated to take seven hours. You can follow along and watch here. 

[4 September 2019 22:43 · Lily Puckett]

Julian Castro has finished his portion of the climate town hall. Here's a little from the Democratic candidate about what he'd do as president: 

[4 September 2019 23:10 · Lily Puckett]

Joe Biden's schedule tonight includes both the climate crisis forum and a fundraiser hosted by the industry that helped cause it.