Article snippet: WASHINGTON — As Hurricane Dorian unleashed torrential rains on the Carolinas on Thursday, President Trump continued to push his erroneous contention from the weekend that Alabama could have been affected by the life-threatening storm. In morning tweets, Trump insisted that what he first said in a Sunday tweet was accurate at the time and attacked the news media. ‘‘What I said was accurate! All Fake News in order to demean!’’ Trump wrote. He later returned to the topic, sharing a tweet in which the Alabama National Guard had said Dorian was ‘‘projected to reach southern Alabama by the early part of the week.’’ ‘‘I was with you all the way Alabama,’’ Trump said in the early evening tweet. ‘‘The Fake News Media was not!’’ Trump’s latest tweets on the subject came a day after he attempted to retroactively justify his Sunday tweet by displaying in the Oval Office a modified National Hurricane Center ‘‘cone of uncertainty’’ forecast, dated Aug. 29, indicating Alabama could in fact be affected. The graphic appeared to have been altered with a Sharpie to indicate a risk that the storm would move into Alabama from Florida. ‘‘In the early days of the hurricane, when it was predicted that Dorian would go through Miami or West Palm Beach, even before it reached the Bahamas, certain models strongly suggested that Alabama & Georgia would be hit as it made its way through Florida & to the Gulf,’’ Trump said in his Thursday tweets. ‘‘Instead it turned North and went up ... Link to the full article to read more