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Emoluments

Written by SK Ashby

(Cartoonist - Nick Anderson)

In other news, Trump said today that he's willing to meet with the leaders of Iran without preconditions. Maybe at some kind of pointless summit?

Meanwhile, the Washington Post reports, quite astonishingly, that a FEMA official who resigned last month has been under investigation for hiring his bros and appointing women to be their sexual partners.

In an interview, [FEMA Administrator William Long] described a “toxic” environment in the human resources department [Corey Coleman] had led at FEMA headquarters, hiring dozens of men who were friends and college fraternity brothers and women he met at bars and on online dating sites — then promoting them to roles throughout the agency without going through proper federal hiring channels.

Coleman then transferred some of the women in and out of departments, some to regional offices, so his friends could try to have sexual relationships with them, according to statements and interviews with employees, said a FEMA official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

So, yeah, I'm sure we're going to hear a lot more about this. How did this impact FEMA's response to recent hurricanes?

Finally, John Oliver returned to the air last night and skewered Facebook in a manner that I can't co-sign enough. With emphasis on "fuck you."