Now-former FEMA Acting Administrator Cameron Hamilton, who was officially canned the day after his May 7th testimony in which he told a House Appropriations subcommittee he did “not believe it is in the best interests of the American people to eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency,” had actually already had his security clearance revoked and his desk cleaned out prior to sitting for the afternoon hearing, Reuters reports, noting that the new revelation do not track with the White House’s earlier statements that Hamilton had been tossed because of the testimony.
Why the White House thought that was somehow a more politically tenable version of what specifically had prompted the guy’s firing – either way Hamilton was a dead man for being too pro-FEMA – is not clear. “Cameron wasn’t fired for his testimony at that congressional committee hearing. He knew well in advance,” friend Matt Strickland told Reuters. “This is lazy gossip,” a DHS spokesperson said in response to questions about Hamilton’s firing, adding that he’s (supposedly) still actually employed by the Trump Administration, now as a “senior advisor” at the Department of Education, his job apparently focused “on school safety issues and foreign influence on university campuses.” At another major federal agency the Trump Regime is trying to dismantle.