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SCOOP with @dlippman: White House installing Trump loyalist MICHAEL CAPUTO as health comms chief amid frustration with ALEX AZAR. politico.com/news/2020/04/1…
Caputo - author of “The Ukraine Hoax” - confirmed the move to POLITICO.

As recently as this morning, Caputo was battling with reporters and weighing in on coronavirus in tweets deleted just a few minutes ago.
The White House has grown angry at Azar over battles with SEEMA VERMA et al, and what they believe are Azar efforts to shape Covid-19 narrative.

(Although author of this Daily Beast piece said she didn’t talk to Azar and came up with idea on her own.)
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We’ve updated our story with additional details:

— BRAD TRAVERSE, lobbyist who runs popular job site, is set to be Caputo’s deputy

— Caputo worked as recently as last month as registered foreign agent for Somalia government, @theodoricmeyer reports

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NEW: The complicated ouster of top vaccine scientist RICK BRIGHT — a fight over Covid-19 treatment and his management decisions, and the Trump team’s push to oust him dating back more than a year. politico.com/news/2020/04/2…
Bright led the health department’s vaccine arm until this week — reportedly finding out about his transfer when he couldn’t get into his email.

Bright told NYT’s @maggienyt today he was forced out for opposing malaria drugs touted by Trump.
But Trump appointees had been trying to oust Bright for more than a year, unhappy with his management. POLITICO first learned about those disputes last year, before the Covid-19 outbreak hit the U.S.

Bright didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment across Wednesday.
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NEW: The White House limited the Surgeon General’s media appearances last week, even as Trump faces growing questions about Covid-19 and racial disparities. politico.com/news/2020/04/2…
The surgeon general made just one TV appearance between April 11 and April 20, amid progressive backlash over his April 10 comments on personal behavior and stepping up for “your abuela.”

https://t.co/Z9fEboMXF2
The surgeon general’s allies say the viral comments were spread out of context and he’s been an advocate for tackling racial disparities. Image
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Striking how many of the coronavirus “achievements” touted by Trump campaign for February are just briefings, botched rollouts (like the Feb 6 CDC test kits and the Feb 14 CDC surveillance) or delayed decisions (like the Feb 29 FDA policy that should’ve been issued weeks before).
Trump’s campaign touts 20 bolded line items for what Trump “did to combat coronavirus in February”

— Seven are briefings of a sort, like “Trump vowed to take all necessary steps” in State of the Union

— Three are variants of “CDC was waiting on China for permission to travel”
— Two are botched CDC rollouts, like the well-known test kit failures and the surveillance system that failed to launch

— Two are decisions, like the Feb 24 emergency funding request and the Feb 29 lab policy, that public health experts had urged for weeks
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