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The Sharpiegate* has proven beyond all reasonable doubt** that Donald J. Trump is not the sharpest pencil in the cup*** ... "
Robert Reich ****

Liliputins. What, the heck, is this?
http://stihi.ru/2021/11/24/7101

Footnotes:

Sharpiegate*

The Hurricane Dorian–Alabama controversy, also referred to as Sharpiegate, arose from a comment made by then U.S. President Donald Trump on September 1, 2019, as Hurricane Dorian approached the U.S. mainland. Spaghetti plot used by Trump later on the same day to support his assertion that the hurricane was predicted to pass over Alabama. On September 4, 2019, in the Oval Office, Trump displayed the National Hurricane Center's August 29 diagram of Dorian's projected track. The diagram had an oddly misshapen line, apparently drawn with a black marker, which added an additional lobe to the cone of uncertainty of the hurricane's possible path which included southern Alabama. Mentioning states that would likely be impacted by the storm, he incorrectly included Alabama, which by then was known not to be under threat from the storm. After many residents of Alabama called the local weather bureau to ask about it, the bureau issued a reassurance that Alabama was not expected to be hit by the storm. Over the following week, Trump repeatedly insisted his comment had been correct. On September 4, he showed reporters a weather map which had been altered with a black Sharpie marker to show the hurricane's track threatening Alabama. He also reportedly ordered his aides to obtain an official retraction of the weather bureau's comment that the storm was not headed for Alabama. On September 6, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) published an unsigned statement in support of Trump's initial claim, saying that National Hurricane Center (NHC) models "demonstrated that tropical-storm-force winds from Hurricane Dorian could impact Alabama." Multiple agencies investigated the possibility that the Trump administration exerted political influence over NOAA, and in June and July 2020, two investigations were completed, one from the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) and another from the United States Department of Commerce Office of Inspector General (OIG). The NAPA report released on June 15 found that both Neil Jacobs, the acting NOAA administrator, and Julie Kay Roberts, the former NOAA deputy chief of staff and communications director, twice violated codes of the agency's scientific integrity policy amid their involvement in the NOAA statement. On July 9, the inspector general of the Commerce Department issued a report confirming that Commerce officials had responded to orders from the White House which resulted in the statement issued by the NOAA. A third report was published by the Biden administration's scientific integrity task force of the National Science and Technology Council and released in January 2022. The alteration of official government weather forecasts is illegal per 18 U.S. Code 2074, Beyond all reasonable doubt and is punishable by fine or imprisonment or a combination of both.

Beyond all reasonable doubt**
In a criminal case, the prosecution bears the burden of proving that the defendant is guilty beyond all reasonable doubt. This means that the prosecution must convince the jury that there is no other reasonable explanation that can come from the evidence presented at trial.

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not the sharpest pencil in the cup***
See also:
not the sharpest knife in the drawer
not the sharpest tool in the shed
not the sharpest tool in the box
not the brightest crayon in the box
not the brightest candle
(humorous)
Not intelligent; dim-witted or prone to stupidity.
OPPOSITE: a/one smart cookie
His new boyfriend isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he's pretty good looking!
I wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer in school, but I still managed to find a profession I loved.

Robert Reich ****
Robert Bernard Reich (born June 24,1946) is an American professor, author, lawyer, and political commentator. He worked in the administrations of presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and served as Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997 in the cabinet of President Bill Clinton. He was also a member of President Barack Obama's economic transition advisory board. Robert Reich called Trump's behavior in Sharpiegate irrational. "I think we have to face the truth that no one seems to want to admit. This is no longer a case of excessive narcissism or grandiosity. We're not simply dealing with an unusually large ego [...] The president of the United States is seriously, frighteningly, dangerously unstable. And he's getting worse by the day."