Trump Denies Pressuring Agency on Hurricane

President Trump denied that his chief of staff Mick Mulvaney was acting on his orders when Mulvaney reportedly directed Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to pressure a federal agency to rebuke scientists who had contradicted Trump’s hurricane claims, Politico reports.

Said Trump: “No, I never did that — I never did that.”

He added: “When they talk about the hurricane and when they talk about Florida and Alabama, that is just fake news. Right from the beginning, it was a fake story.”