President attacks John Kerry Thursday night, starts Friday with string of hurricane warnings
ANALYSIS — President Donald Trump, just one day after even Republicans criticized him for claiming nearly 3,000 people did not die last year in Puerto Rico due to two powerful hurricanes, shared a FEMA tweet warning against spreading false information.
Trump ended Thursday evening — as Hurricane Florence began bearing down on the North Carolina coast — by slamming former Secretary of State John Kerry, the longtime senator and failed 2004 Democratic presidential nominee who might be eyeing a 2020 run. He started Friday — with Florence dumping rainfall measured in feet as it made landfall in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina — with a series of tweets urging people in the storm’s path to take steps to remain safe.
Donald J. Trump✔@realDonaldTrump
John Kerry had illegal meetings with the very hostile Iranian Regime, which can only serve to undercut our great work to the detriment of the American people. He told them to wait out the Trump Administration! Was he registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act? BAD!
A number of the president’s Friday morning posts amounted to a running public service announcementin the form of tweets and retweets that repeated on a loop. Amid them was a retweet of a FEMA post noting the agency has set up a “rumor control page” on its website.
View the complete September 14 article by John T. Bennett on the Roll Call website here.