//Govt Watchdog: Political pressure caused 'Sharpiegate' frantic rebuke

Govt Watchdog: Political pressure caused 'Sharpiegate' frantic rebuke

Political pressure from the White House and a series of “crazy in the middle of the night” texts, emails and phone calls caused top federal weather officials to wrongly admonish a weather office for a tweet that contradicted President Donald Trump about Hurricane Dorian in 2019, an inspector general report found.Commerce Department Inspector General Peggy Gustafson concluded in a report issued Thursday that the statement