spot wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 3:18 am Did anyone see "The top communications official at the powerful cabinet department in charge of combating the coronavirus made outlandish and false accusations on Sunday that career government scientists were engaging in “sedition” in their handling of the pandemic and that left-wing hit squads were preparing for armed insurrection after the election"?
C.D.C. scientists “haven’t gotten out of their sweatpants except for meetings at coffee shops” to plot “how they’re going to attack Donald Trump next,” Mr. Caputo said. “There are scientists who work for this government who do not want America to get well, not until after Joe Biden is president.”
A longtime Trump loyalist with no background in health care, Mr. Caputo, 58, was appointed by the White House to his post in April, at a time when the president’s aides suspected the health secretary, Alex M. Azar II, of protecting his public image instead of Mr. Trump’s. Mr. Caputo coordinates the messaging of an 80,000-employee department that is at the center of the pandemic response, overseeing the Food and Drug Administration, the C.D.C. and the National Institutes of Health.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/p ... virus.html
An update:
People do the oddest things sometimes. I expect "60 days" takes him to the end of his tenure.The federal official tasked with building public trust in a vaccine abruptly took a leave of absence Wednesday, after he posted a Facebook Live video that accused government scientists of “sedition.” Michael Caputo, the assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services, will be gone for two months to “focus on his health and the well-being of his family," the department announced this afternoon. A top aide of Caputo's who had repeatedly badgered the CDC to make its reports more flattering to President Trump will also be leaving the government, but permanently.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2 ... rture-hhs/