Trump Health Aide Alleges Broad Conspiracies and Warns of Armed Revolt [View all]
Source: NY Times
The top communications official at the powerful cabinet department in charge of combating the coronavirus accused career government scientists on Sunday of “sedition” in their handling of the pandemic and warned that left-wing hit squads were preparing for armed insurrection after the election.
Michael Caputo, 58, the assistant secretary of public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services, said without evidence that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was harboring a “resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump. “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. Mr. Caputo has 5,000 Facebook friends, and the video has been viewed more than 850 times.
He then ran through a series of conspiracy theories, culminating in a prediction that Mr. Trump will win re-election but his Democratic opponent, Joseph R. Biden Jr., will refuse to concede. “And when Donald Trump refuses to stand down at the inauguration, the shooting will begin,” he said. “The drills that you’ve seen are nothing.” He added: “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get.”
Mr. Caputo on Sunday complained that he was under siege by the media and said that his physical health was in question and his “mental health has definitely failed.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/caputo-virus.html
Mr. Caputo retweeted a conspiratorial post that hinted with no evidence that armed camps were being established in Washington, D.C.:
“Occupants don’t look like vagrants. Looks like forward basing for militant street ops,” (by Democrats)
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