re: FIRED: Trump FEMA Administrator Cameron Hamilton escorted out of the HQ

I don't understand the hate for Hamilton. Former Seal. By all accounts, had done a great job at FEMA. Recognized what a disaster FEMA had become.

He was very deferential to President Trump. He prefaced his remarks by saying it was his role to advise President Trump and Secretary Noem:

FEMA told Sarah Huckabee Sanders no when she asked for money after the tornado’s and flooding in Arkansas, but they said yes to Missouri.

FEMA withdrew an extension to North Carolina for the flooding cleanup that they promised last year.

There’s a lot of people not happy with FEMA. My dad worked with FEMA for 3 weeks helping cleanup and delivering food. He said they were great. They were cleaning up damage from a tornado when the same small town was flooded a week later.

Tornado took out the lights and dugouts from a baseball field. A week later the field they cleaned up was under 2 to 3 feet of flowing water.

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I guess prayer will help if your assets get destroyed

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Having had my "assets" destroyed in the past...what do you think FEMA did to help me?

Because the answer is nothing.

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Having had my "assets" destroyed in the past...what do you think FEMA did to help me? Because the answer is nothing.

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Did you apply for assistance?

I know that FEMA sent my aunt a check 2 or 3 months after a flood and it covered about half of the damage. She said her insurance company told her to apply for assistance from FEMA. I’m not sure how much her insurance covered.

I don’t know anything about the guy but it sounds like there may have been trust issues. They gave him a lie detector test about six weeks ago to determine if he’d leaked information from a private meeting with Kristi Noem. Seems like an odd thing to do but Trump 2 admin has made it very clear they learned from the constant leaks the first go round. He passed the test but (if you believe anonymous sources in a Politico article), may have still been disgruntled.

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Although Hamilton is in charge of the nation’s leading disaster agency, he appears to have little control over decisions affecting FEMA, including whether to shrink or abolish the agency. Hamilton has expressed frustration to FEMA colleagues, said multiple people, granted anonymity to discuss private conversations.

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Politico link, for what it’s worth

He doesn’t sound like a bad guy from the little I’ve read about him. He didn’t have emergency management experience though and it sounds like maybe he didn’t get the memo on what his role was intended to be. He wasn’t appointed as administrator or deputy administrator, he was made acting administrator. I’m spitballing here but it sounds like Trump may have put him in there as a placeholder to fill the role while they figured out how to transition FEMA out and transfer responsibility to the states. Maybe Cameron didn’t fully understand that this was supposed to be a temporary role and was frustrated when he was trying to run the agency as if it would be continuing.

What does that have to do with FEMA? It was a grant and all comes from the federal govt. I can believe the stupidity on this board. Well, I can actually.

Pension and 6 months paid vacay probably.

Nothing will happen to him.

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there may have been trust issues.

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Thanks for that. Makes sense.

I didn't know anything about him until today. I was impressed with his testimony yesterday.

Get lost you dickhead communist.

Are you one of those OT Ukraine Warrior pussies that crawled out of the safe space?

I bet you are Lee B's alter.