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US President Donald Trump has exhibited a seemingly manipulated map of the trajectory of Hurricane Dorian today to insist on his theory that the storm came to threaten the state of Alabama, something that contradicts government claims and could be a violation of a federal law.

In an act with journalists at the White House, Trump has shown what he has described as an initial weather forecast from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) on Dorian's trajectory. The map corresponded in effect to the prediction of the NHC last Thursday, which pointed to Dorian heading straight for Florida, but included what appears to be a half-circle black hand-drawn on a part of Alabama, in an alleged attempt to indicate that the storm could have hurt that state.

"I know Alabama was in the original prediction," Trump stressed. The president thus influenced the statement he made last Sunday, when he tweeted that Alabama "will probably be (much) more shocked than predicted."

The branch of the National Meteorological Service (NWS) in Birmingham (Alabama) quickly contradicted Trump, stating that the state "will NOT suffer any Dorian-related impact." "The (Dorian) system is too east" and its passage "will not be felt in Alabama," the NWS said.

That southern state also never appeared in any of the NHC newsletters and, when Trump issued his tweet on Sunday, that agency had already indicated that the hurricane had changed its trajectory and was heading north.

But Trump has insisted on Wednesday that, "under certain original scenarios, it was indeed correct that Alabama could have suffered some 'damage.'"

Although it is not clear if it was Trump himself who manipulated the NHC map, that act could be illegal, given that a section of the US legal code establishes fines and up to 90 days in prison for those who "publish any weather prediction" that "falsely represents "issued by official agencies.

For the rest, Trump said his government will be "prepared" if it is necessary to compensate farmers who are affected by the passage through the US east coast of Dorian, which devastated the Abacus and Grand Bahama islands in the archipelago. Atlantic of the Bahamas.

Trump has indicated that Dorian may have "some impact on farms along the coast," but noted that his administration has "a lot of money" due to the tariffs he has imposed on imports from countries such as China.

"We have received many millions of dollars in tariffs from China and we will have a lot of money to help our coastal farmers if they are affected," said the president, who said that the situation for Florida will be better than they thought.

"We were lucky in Florida," Trump said, indicating that the initial forecast showed that it would be directly affecting that state and Georgia.

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has reported on Wednesday that Hurricane Dorian was moving north-northwest in parallel to the northeastern coast of Florida and that its winds are felt at a distance of 110 km.

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