Caputo apologizes to HHS staff for making false accusations
Source: Politico
Top HHS spokesman Michael Caputo called an emergency staff meeting on Tuesday to apologize for leveling a series of false accusations on Facebook Live over the weekend, according to three people with knowledge of the meeting.
Caputo told staffers that his remarks which included unfounded allegations the Centers for Disease Control was harboring a resistance unit reflected poorly on HHS communications office. He also blamed his recent behavior on a combination of physical health issues and the toll of fielding death threats against his family.
Caputo also said he is scheduled to meet with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar later Tuesday, the people with knowledge of the meeting said.
The session left some staffers with the impression that Caputo would soon step aside as the departments assistant secretary for public affairs, the three people with knowledge of the meeting said, though they cautioned that his fate remained in flux. During the meeting, Caputo made allusions to the fact that HHS had functioned for a long time in the past without a permanent top communications official.
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soothsayer
(38,601 posts)still_one
(92,116 posts)brush
(53,764 posts)winstars
(4,219 posts)I call BULLSHIT!!!
frazzled
(18,402 posts)That doesnt even make sense. You cant apologize for making crazy, false, defamatory allegations. Because thats not a mistake, its intentional. Unless ... youre batshit crazy. In which case, you wouldnt have the wherewithal to apologize.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)NOT!
RainCaster
(10,857 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)He is not the first to shoot first and deny ever doing it. Kind of a Rethug thingee.
Siwsan
(26,257 posts)GentryDixon
(2,948 posts)swag
(26,486 posts)"Caputo also disputed anonymous White House criticism about his mental health saying that some of his comments have been taken out of context and concluded the meeting by encouraging his staff to listen to music by the Grateful Dead."
Like, is he going off to drop some acid for the next decade to forget he ever supported Trump?
Is he admitting to driving the train(wreck of CDC pandemic communications) high on cocaine? Or admitting he's a friend of the devil?
Or did he just stomp out and accuse them all of being *gasp* hippies!
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)He aint goin nowhere.
Rebl2
(13,485 posts)the heat, then get out now idiot. You like many others in this administration are not qualified to be there.
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)Grokenstein
(5,721 posts)Last edited Tue Sep 15, 2020, 07:11 PM - Edit history (1)
It is the gutless way of all republickscum.
He also blamed his recent behavior on a combination of physical health issues and the toll of fielding death threats against his family.
I believe the part about health issues! ...Death threats? That's horseshit. Cap'n Puto is such a relatively low-value trinket compared to the real movers-and-shitters in Trumpmerica that he only registers on people's radar when he goes out of his way to make himself news in front of a live mic.
Wonkette: "Can Somebody Please Find Trump Idiot Michael Caputo's Pacifier?"
Caputo also said, on Facebook, while presumably checking every five seconds to see if the shadows on his ceiling were still being cast by light coming in windows, or if they were ANTIFA DEMOCRAT BLACK LIVES MATTER MONSTERS, that there is a Deep State cabal inside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that is hellbent on "undermining" Trump.
Ummm, "How?" you are asking. Well! Sane people might think it has to do with their commitment to science and refusal to barf out pandemic happytalk for Trump, who admitted back in February to Bob Woodward that he was lying to the American public about how serious COVID-19 was. We could see how fascist-supporting Trump assholes like Caputo might be a little P.O.-ed about that.
But no, it's not that, it is that the CDC is going to murder him! "You understand that they're going to have to kill me, and unfortunately, I think that's where this is going," Mr. Caputo, a Trump loyalist installed by the White House in April, told followers in a video he hosted live on his personal Facebook page.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)he is going through a "mental health crisis."
I'm guessing that's the precursor to his next, probable quote "I need to spend more time with my family..."
Lock him up.
(6,925 posts)Also has ties with the Kremlin... what a surpRise. Caput caputo!
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,379 posts)UPDATE
Caputo has signaled his desire to take medical leave
He claimed to staff he had never read a single MMWR, despite efforts to meddle w reports
He concluded meeting by telling staff to listen to the Grateful Dead
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