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Here is a link that includes

rmrd0000 — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 01:02:53 +0000

In reply to Top Trump Aide Warns of Armed Insurrection - Woke or Nuts?

Here is a link that includes Caputo's troubling speech.

https://news.yahoo.com/michael-caputo-was-brought-in-to-streamline-coronavirus-messaging-he-has-fostered-chaos-instead-194313767.html

...signals desire for medical

artappraiser — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:09:57 +0000

In reply to The health department's top

...signals desire for medical leave...

too wack even for the Trump administration is an amazing thing, but then maybe we should have taken the nickname "crazytown" more literally and less figuratively

The health department's top

rmrd0000 — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:02:00 +0000

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The health department's top spokesperson Michael Caputo called an emergency staff meeting on Tuesday to apologize for drawing negative attention to the Trump administration's health care strategy and signaled that he might be soon departing his role, according to five people with knowledge of the meeting.

The departure of Caputo, who has closely controlled the health agencies' dissemination of information about coronavirus, would be a blow to the Trump administration's efforts to promote a possible vaccine, if one is approved in the fall.

Caputo told staffers that his series of false accusations on Facebook Live this weekend — which included unfounded allegations that the Centers for Disease Control was harboring a “resistance unit” — reflected poorly on HHS’ communications office. He blamed his recent behavior on a combination of physical health issues and the toll of fielding death threats against his family. Caputo also acknowledged that he had never read one of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports, despite his team's ongoing efforts to try to edit those documents.

Caputo told staff that he is scheduled to meet with HHS Secretary Alex Azar later Tuesday, the people with knowledge of the meeting said.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/15/michael-caputo-apology-hhs-staff-415206

The "armed insurrection" I

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 06:49:00 +0000

In reply to Top Trump Aide Warns of Armed Insurrection - Woke or Nuts?

The "armed insurrection" I imagine

(seems like eons since "the best people")

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/15/trump-election-ad-uses-s...

Trump is selling what?

NCD — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 22:45:13 +0000

In reply to He's really just another

Trump is selling what?

No problem. I think the guy

rmrd0000 — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 22:43:34 +0000

In reply to 4 MORE YEARS! Thanks for the

No problem. I think the guy is crying out for help.

4 MORE YEARS! Thanks for the

NCD — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 22:38:09 +0000

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4 MORE YEARS! Thanks for the update.

He's really just another

artappraiser — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 21:45:04 +0000

In reply to Top Trump Aide Warns of Armed Insurrection - Woke or Nuts?

He's really just another Butthead for the Beavis?

Calif. Sec. for Nat. Resources WADE CROWFOOT: "If we…think it’s all about vegetation management, we’re not going to succeed…"

TRUMP: "Ok, it’ll start getting cooler, you just watch."

CROWFOOT: "I wish science agreed with you."

TRUMP: "I don’t think science knows, actually." pic.twitter.com/kNWJKhpJnu
— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) September 14, 2020

Caputo deleted his Twitter

rmrd0000 — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 21:06:47 +0000

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Caputo deleted his Twitter account

The Trump administration’s top health spokesman Michael Caputo appeared to have deleted his Twitter account after a late-night rant in which he suggested tear-gassing reporters and tangled with other users on the site.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-14/top-trump-health-spokesman-deletes-twitter-account-after-rant?sref=C3P1bRLC

I thought, given the headline

rmrd0000 — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 20:47:47 +0000

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I thought, given the headline and the byline that the story was true.

Same story carried by Mediate

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-hhs-official-michael-caputo-accuses-cdc-scientists-of-of-sedition-and-predicts-he-will-be-killed/

and TPM

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/michael-caputo-scientists-sedition-cdc-hhs-facebook

There was video according to the NYT

“You understand that they’re going to have to kill me, and unfortunately, I think that’s where this is going,” Mr. Caputo, a Trump loyalist installed by the White House in April, told followers in a video he hosted live on his personal Facebook page. Mr. Caputo has 5,000 Facebook friends, and the video has been viewed more than 850 times. It has been shared by 44 followers.

And NYMag

In a video he posted to his personal Facebook page, Caputo decried the negative attention he was receiving; insisted, “I am not going anywhere”; and claimed that scientists “deep in the bowels of the CDC have given up science and become political animals” who “haven’t gotten out of their sweatpants except for meetings at coffee shops” to plot “how they’re going to attack Donald Trump.” The Times reports that Caputo said the agency “was riddled with anti-Trump researchers who ‘walk around like they are monks’ and ‘holy men’ but engage in ‘rotten science.’”

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/trump-hhs-aide-caputo-attacks-cdc-warns-of-insurrection.html

Edit to add

The Hill reports on the same Facebook Live stream

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/516319-top-hhs-official-accuses-scientists-of-plotting-against-trump-tells?fbclid=IwAR1jGA45czjils-NC5cN92MJOpPF9u39oEKS6E9ulLxIr7AMhP4dRm1eFKU&fbclid=IwAR1UDEQZ9kVX8FPxvRAsLKhUkiMDzylWm-ANA1haWCZqOF3C0RHKAXi-5Lw&fbclid=IwAR2Katz8rHWzvQ6IX38oduyoDmkUhO6z2p137vwvT8b0orUvXvvWxhuYmnY&fbclid=IwAR35e55fGhtdsAv3sTKNk59GUvsh6kQ8LjKGgmFzbRoxYsXxvw95ilOICnQ