it was wilber ross who tried to fire the weather people. he wanted to fire them for that.the supreme court as commerce secretary, it was ross's job to oversee the u.s. census. the population count that the u.s. has to undertake because the constitution says so. they decided they would add a new question. andthe aclu, took wilber ross and the commerce department to court saying they were punishesing the citizenship question on the census because they wanted to drive down response rates in immigrant communities. it would askew the congressional seats. wilber ross said it was ridiculous, he merely added the question to the census because the justice department told him to. he was barely involved. a number of federal courts, found that was not true. in fact, the evidence showed clearly that wilber ross decided to add that citizenship question and then want around to find a pretext to justify it. even as more and more evidence emerged saying that the question was what it was. a straight up ploy to advantage white people and republicans in congressional reputation by excluding i

us >>> do you remember wilber ross, he was donald trump's commerce secretary for all four years of the trump administration and i think the way he kind of flew under the radar for most of that time is that he only made the news for kind of ridiculous things, like wearing $600 commerce department monogrammed smoking slippers to president trump's first congressional address. secretary ross was also reported to fall asleep, kind of constantly, at commerce department meetings and even at higher profile meetings on tv. but velvet smoking sleeping billionaire wilbur ross had his moments of genuine scandal like when he threatened to fire federal weather officials because a hurricane was not going to alabama and they said so, even though president trump insisted for some reason that alabama was absolutely where that hurricane was going. do you remember that? sharpie gate? it was wilbur ross who tried to fire the weather people who were correct about the hurricane. he wanted to fire them for that. there was also the time that wilbur ross lied to the supreme court as commerce secretary, it was r