On any given day in the Trump administration, you can reasonably expect a few things to happen. One: Donald Trump will work himself into a frenzy over something he saw during his five or six hours of TV watching, and respond on Twitter with a deranged series of sentence fragments, whose capitalization recalls letters sent to local police by serial killers. (“Why aren’t owners making their players stand for the Flag?? Conspiracy by DEMS to make you think the Tax Cuts aren’t working?? Trade wars good and EASY to win, just add Tariffs!”) Sarah Huckabee Sanders will tell reporters that she can’t believe they have the audacity to ask her completely reasonable questions, and will end by telling Jim Acosta to go home and think about what he’s done. Eric Trump will call the White House switchboard and moan to the operator, “I just . . . I just miss him so much it hurts.” Oh, and an official will come under fire for allegedly abusing government funds and/or resources, because if the Trump administration is one thing, it’s a collection of the most shameless, unscrupulous people on the planet who think the purpose of their time in government is to enrich themselves as much as possible.

Thursday, naturally, was no different. According to a new report from Politico, FEMA administrator Brock Long is the target of an Inspector General investigation into whether he “misused government resources and personnel” during his weekly commutes to North Carolina from Washington. Last year, at the beginning of his tenure at FEMA, Long started having a staffer drive him six hours each way so he could spend the weekends at home, while aides who accompanied him stayed at a hotel paid for by taxpayers. The I.G.’s interest was apparently piqued after one of the cars used to ferry Long to North Carolina was involved in an accident. In addition, per Politico, the administrator’s “routine absences from the office due to the frequent six-hour drives . . . drew [Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen] Nielsen’s attention,” with a person familiar with the matter saying she confronted Long about his travel during a meeting in August, and another claiming Nielsen asked him to consider resigning, which he obviously did not.

During a press briefing on Thursday, Long told reporters, “doing something unethical is not part of my DNA and is not part of my track record my entire career.” A D.H.S. official told The Washington Post, “This is a guy going to church in Hickory, North Carolina. He’s a Boy Scout. This is a guy with a young family trying to get home to see his kid’s baseball games on the weekends. This is not a Scott Pruitt–type situation.”

For his part, Pruitt would probably scoff at the idea of even being mentioned in the same breath as Long, given the allegations against the FEMA administrator are absolute child’s play compared to the cornucopia of s--t he pulled before being forced to resign as E.P.A. chief, after the 497th story of his ethically bankrupt ways came out, and Trump’s 496-strike policy made it impossible for him to stay on.

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