On his weekly live @Facebook video yesterday, Trump’s @HHSGov assistant secretary for public affairs @MichaelRCaputo let his freak flag fly. He said @CDCgov contains a “resistance unit” of scientists engaged in “sedition.” That’s the least crazy bit. 1/5 nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/…
“Remember the Trump supporter who was shot and killed [in Portland]? That was a drill,” Trump’s @HHSGov assistant secretary said. “Squads [are] being trained all over this country.....When Donald Trump refuses to stand down at the inauguration, the shooting will begin.” 2/5
“If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” Trump’s @HHSGov assistant secretary said. “You understand that they’re going to have to kill me, and unfortunately, I think that’s where this is going.” 3/5
In the same video Trump’s @HHSGov assistant secretary said his “mental health has definitely failed....I don’t like being alone in Washington,” where the “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” 4/5
BTW, before becoming the @HHSGov assistant secretary in
charge of quashing @CDCgov “public health updates” that “undercut Trump’s message that the pandemic is under control,” he was an Oliver North and Roger Stone protégé and worked in Russian and Ukrainian politics for years.
charge of quashing @CDCgov “public health updates” that “undercut Trump’s message that the pandemic is under control,” he was an Oliver North and Roger Stone protégé and worked in Russian and Ukrainian politics for years.
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