A top FEMA official who had drawn scrutiny for bizarre past remarks — including claiming he teleported to a Waffle House — has been pushed out of the agency, four sources tell CNN.
White House officials installed Gregg Phillips at FEMA in December, despite his history of promoting election conspiracy theories, particularly in the aftermath of the 2020 election. He came under national scrutiny in March after CNN reported on a cache of outlandish comments from his appearances on right-wing podcasts, including the teleportation claim.
Despite being obviously insane and probably a black out drunk he was apparently not bad at his job so this is bad in so many more ways that people think
This is a really hard one for me get a bead on. From what I’ve read, he seemed competent at the nuts and bolts of running an agency like this. That’s good.
But he’s also a right wing lunatic that thinks (or at least claims) he was magically teleported by god. This kind of magical thinking is incredibly dangerous when we are talking about someone who holds real world power of some kind.
I think under more normal circumstances I would say good riddance…but now? At least he wasn’t actively malicious like so many seem to be…