Responding to Donald Trump’s weird claim that Alabama was threatened by Hurricane Dorian, CBS, NBC and MSNBC on Thursday all jumped on the possibility of jail time for the President, perhaps hoping that a Sharpie pen could accomplish what Robert Mueller did not. The two networks and cable channel delighted in reading a criminal code statute, hyping a possible imprisonment for Trump.

For some reason, the President has repeatedly doubled down on the incorrect assertion that Dorian threatened Alabama. At an event in the Oval Office on Wednesday, Trump showed a map with what appeared to have a marker used to include the state. From this confusing behavior, CBS This Morning’s Ben Tracy jumped to possible jail time: “Knowingly misrepresenting a government weather forecast is a crime and it’s punishable by up to 90 days in prison. As for now, the President keeps insisting he was right all along.”

On NBC’s Today, Peter Alexander hyped, “By the way, it's against to law to knowingly issue or publish a false weather forecast.”

On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski seemed to think this was a game changer: “There's also U.S. statute on false weather reports. Is that worth noting, given the fact that I think the President might have given out a false weather report, right? So apparently it's against the law.”

On Wednesday’s The Last Word, Lawrence O’Donnell read from the criminal code:

The Washington Post reporting today that altering that map could be a crime. The Washington Post reported, quote, “Altering official government weather forecasts isn't just a cause of concern. It's illegal, per 18 U.S. Code section 2074 which addresses false weather reports. Whoever knowingly issues or publishes any counterfeit weather forecast or warning of weather conditions falsely representing such forecast or warning to have been issued or published by the Weather Bureau United States signal service or other branch of the government service, shall be find under this title or imprisoned not more than 90 days or both.”

Will #SharpieGate finally bring down Trump? Stay tuned to journalists for more speculation:

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