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Caputo apologizes to HHS staff for making false accusationsTop 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.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/15/michael-caputo-apology-hhs-staff-415206
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He's very, very sorry and it won't happen again... (Original Post)
brooklynite
Sep 2020
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Raven
(13,889 posts)1. Would those "health issues" be of the mental kind, Mike?
samnsara
(17,616 posts)2. is Azar waiting for Caputo to run out into traffic naked with a chain saw? Hes almost there now!
world wide wally
(21,740 posts)3. Loser personified
0rganism
(23,943 posts)4. i'm very sure our most exalted comrade totenkopf Caputo is quite contrite
apparently fancies himself one of the fourth reich's death's head elite
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214077410
apology not accepted, mr. ruinous murderman
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)5. US staff or Moscow staff?