Nets Hope Weather Map Will Finally Bring Down Trump: ‘90 Days in Prison?’

Scott Whitlock | September 5, 2019
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[See NewsBusters for more.] Responding to Donald Trump’s weird claim that Alabama was threatened by Hurricane Dorian, CBS, NBC and MSNBC on Thursday all jumped on the possibility of jail time for the President, perhaps hoping that a Sharpie pen could accomplish what Robert Mueller did not. The two networks and cable channel delighted in reading a criminal code statute, hyping a possible imprisonment for Trump. CBS This Morning’s Ben Tracy jumped to possible jail time: “Knowingly misrepresenting a government weather forecast is a crime and it’s punishable by up to 90 days in prison. As for now, the President keeps insisting he was right all along.”