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.
politico.com/news/2020/10/2…
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.”

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31 Oct
FOR F*CK SAKE!!! Trump just picked the wrong goddamn fight trying to blame doctors for “phony” #COVID19 diagnoses and deaths. Here are over 20+ doctors who have **DIED ON THE FRONTLINES** among almost 2000 healthcare workers who have died.

Trump—you can goto hell after we #VOTE
2) In fact more than 1 in 17 hospitalized #COVID19 patients in a national study were health care workers!!!
3) It gets worse, despite being healthcare workers themselves, of these hospitalized #COVID19 HCWs:

📌Approximately 28% of these patients were admitted to an intensive care unit

📌16% required invasive mechanical ventilation

📌4% died
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31 Oct
SOBERING: U.S. reports over 100,000 coronavirus cases in 24 hours for the first time ever. Smashes all time record.

We have basically lost this battle. Not sure if Christmas is even saveable unless we do something drastic fast! 🔥 #COVID19 Image
2) But we can still save ourselves from becoming Belgium, France, and Netherlands. #COVID19 Image
3) And we aren’t sure we can handle the continued increase if hospitals are soon overwhelmed again, like they were in NYC in the spring, or like Wisconsin or El Paso is currently. This is not going well at all. #COVID19 Image
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31 Oct
⚠️HOLY SHIT—1 in 4 medical staff in Belgian city of Liège are sick w/ #COVID19. Now doctors asked to keep working *even if sick* no symptoms. The head of Belgian medical union says ***they had no choice to prevent hospital system collapsing within days***.
bbc.com/news/world-eur…
2) One in 3 people tested are coming back positive. Hospitals are transferring patients elsewhere & cancelling non-urgent surgeries, days after Health Minister warned the country was close to a "tsunami" of infections where authorities "no longer control what is happening". 🔥🔥
3) Anyone finding this familiar? Because this was exactly what was happening with Lombardy Italy 🇮🇹 early in the spring. History repeating itself.

BBC: Belgium facing 'tsunami' of new infections bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…
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30 Oct
📺 FINAL TV AD:

We were warned about the risk of #COVID19 becoming a pandemic in January. Scientists knew and many sounded the alarm.

And @realDonaldTrump knew, but he decided to “play it down”. So many have died needlessly.

#Vote because our lives depend on it.
2) this is the followup to our earlier video.
3) Trump was warned in January. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
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29 Oct
BREAKING—US has now surpassed 9,000,000 cases of #COVID19.

Accelerated since last month—newest mil only took 14 days.

1 mil April 28
2 mil June 10
3 mil July 7
4 mil July 23
5 mil Aug 8
6 mil Aug 30
7 mil Sept 25
8 mil Oct 15
9 mil Oct 29
2) My FAS team further tabulated this in a chart. HT to @euromaestro. (Dates may be off by 1 day due to reporting date vs occurrence date).
3) my team’s latest STATE BY STATE case report for the week. Follow for weekly updates.

(HT @euromaestro). #COVID19
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29 Oct
⚠️OMG—We’ve gone from bad to even worse: South Dakota has now overtaken North Dakota, while each smashing record highs—each above 1000/mil. If countries, both would be *Top 5* in world. Yet where is SD governor @govkristinoem? At ***Mar-A-Lago***! (Confirmed by source). #COVID19 Image
2) My FAS team further analyzed this. The world is doing horribly now. Notice SD and ND would be #4 and #5. More worrisome is that they are growing faster than many top countries too.

HT to my teammate @euromaestro for these daily figures.
3) And notice @KristiNoem is even keynote speaker at Mar A Lago tonight. All while her state burns, and her being anti mask. As a former SD childhood resident, this is so infuriating and I take it very personally. google.com/amp/s/www.sun-…
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