Thread by @DrEricDing

NEW—Trump HHS appointee Michael Caputo steered a $300 mil taxpayer-paid ad campaign to "defeat despair" on #COVID19 privately pitched a different theme: "Helping the President will Help the Country”, required Trump loyalists, & overruled civil servants.
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2) “For instance, contractors vetted at least 274 potential celebrity contributors for their stances on gay rights, gun control & 2016 election before allowing them to participate. One promised public service announcement, was nixed cuz the celebrity had been critical of Trump.”

3) “House Oversight leaders said that the administration had failed to comply with repeated demands to produce separate, internal documents related to the campaign...

4) “Your failure to provide the documents we requested — especially in light of the information we have learned from the contractors — appears to be part of a cover-up to conceal the Trump Administration’s misuse of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars for partisan political

5) “purposes ahead of the upcoming election, and to direct taxpayer funds to friends and allies of Trump Administration officials,” Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) and Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) wrote to Azar in an accompanying letter.”