Thread by @SethAbramson

Longtime Kremlin agent @MichaelRCaputo—just caught doctoring CDC reports for Trump at DHHS in a way that kills Americans—is now attacking my feed. He likely knows Proof of Corruption is a damning indictment of DHHS. I hope you'll RT this link to honor him: amazon.com/dp/1250272998?…

PS/ @MichaelRCaputo—again, quite seriously, a longtime Kremlin agent who is now doctoring CDC reports and thereby killing Americans during a pandemic, doing the bidding of his old-and-possibly-current boss—is now trolling this feed and blocking my readers. Wow. #ProofofCorruption

PS2/ I knew the Trump administration would ultimately grapple with Proof of Corruption—and I'm not surprised it's DHHS, given this is in significant part a book addressing a pandemic that DHHS mishandled—but why let @MichaelRCaputo attack me, when he's so obviously damaged goods?

PS3/ @MichaelRCaputo is supposed to be a Trumpist communications expert, so when he engages with the author of a book that's the most serious—fully sourced—critique of his boss in print, it's a communications error of unimaginable dimensions. These men are evil *and* incompetent.

PS4/ Guess which longtime Kremlin agent who now works for Trump at DHHS doctoring CDC reports and killing Americans appeared on pages 195, 196, 210, 215, and 432 of Proof of Collusion (2018)? Sounds like @MichaelRCaputo has wanted to take a shot at the Proof series a long time.

PS5/ I tweeted about DHHS flack @MichaelRCaputo doctoring CDC reports on Trump's behalf in a way that kills Americans at midnight—mentioning my book Proof of Corruption—and went to bed. I woke to an attack on me by Caputo. Proof of Corruption has landed inside the administration.

PS6/ The strange thing is that I didn't tag Caputo in my two tweets concerning him last night—and I obviously have just released a book no one at DHHS or in the Trump administration wants anyone to read—so the scope of this Team Trump *tantrum* is just... breath-taking, actually.

PS7/ I've now looked at so many Proof of Corruption shops that when I see this—from the POLITICO story revealing Putin/Trump stooge @MichaelRCaputo is doctoring CDC reports in a way that kills Americans—I see a framed photo of Proof of Corruption's cover on the wall next to him.

UPDATE/ Caputo is now *ranting* about me on his feed—total meltdown. I haven't seen a comms error this grave from a supposed expert in years. The reason the White House told @KellyannePolls—who followed me for 4 years—to unfollow me was to avoid attention for Proof of Corruption.

UPDATE2/ And in the midst of the White House trying to ensure it doesn't direct anyone to Proof of Corruption—because there is no better-sourced or more damning book about this White House in the U.S., and its two Proof-series predecessors were NYT bestsellers—Caputo does *this*.

UPDATE3/ And yet we can guess the deal here:

Caputo knows PROOF OF COLLUSION (2018) mentioned him—and became a NYT bestseller.

He knows PROOF OF CONSPIRACY (2019) mentioned him—and became a NYT bestseller.

Now PROOF OF CORRUPTION (2020) is out—and he sees where this is headed.

UPDATE4/ I didn't expect to focus so much on this today, but @MichaelRCaputo is *really* struggling to respond to the breaking news that he's doctoring CDC reports and killing Americans.

He knows me—we've argued before—and he knows the Proof series, as he's in it. He's flailing.

UPDATE5/ How do I know he's flailing? Right now @MichaelRCaputo isn't just ranting about me on his feed instead of responding to the news that he's doctoring CDC reports and killing Americans, he's blocking my followers and attacking their {checks notes} college pedigrees?

What?

UPDATE6/ @MichaelRCaputo is at the center of major national news today—as a Kremlin agent whose doctoring of CDC reports has killed Americans—and he's chosen to spend the day on Twitter attacking me, my new book Proof of Corruption, and blocking my readers? Again I ask... *what?*

UPDATE7/ Here's @MichaelRCaputo—again, and you can Google this, a longtime Kremlin agent who now works for Trump (so a "reverse Dimitri Simes")—falsely claiming COVID-19 is a *bioweapon* to defuse allegations against DHHS like those in Proof of Corruption:

UPDATE8/ What's so funny about this latest entry in Caputo's Twitter rant—besides the fact he's getting ratio'ed for it—is he *knows* we've interacted before. He threatened me repeatedly *here on Twitter*, in such a *creepy* way he later had to apologize. What's *wrong* with him?

UPDATE9/ When I was a federal criminal investigator working in D.C. in the 1990s, I associated this sort of conduct with a daytime drinker. But it's only *1PM* at DHHS—where, again, Caputo has been doctoring CDC reports and killing Americans—so surely he's on the clock right now?

UPDATE10/ Because of my new book Proof of Corruption, I now have the undivided attention of the man in the Trump administration—@MichaelRCaputo—responsible for doctoring CDC reports and killing Americans (after years spent working for Putin). Any questions you want me to ask him?

NOTE/ By far, my favorite Twitter response to the bizarre rant against me and Proof of Corruption now being published by former Putin flack @MichaelRCaputo—on the day we learned he's been doctoring CDC reports in a way that kills Americans—is, without question, this old classic: