The newly appointed Health and Human Services spokesperson promoted conspiracy theories and made racist and derogatory comments in now-deleted tweets
Michael Caputo, a longtime New York Republican political operative who worked on Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, was appointed last week as Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at HHS, a prominent communications role at the department which serves a central role in the federal government's response to the coronavirus pandemic. Caputo, a prolific user who often tweeted insults and profanity, recently erased nearly his entire Twitter history from before April 12.
Coronavirus is serious. The media is not."March 11: Caputo tweets in a chain on testing shortages,"A lot of the panic is orchestrated by soulless Trump critics who seize every crisis as an opportunity to stop him. And fail." Still, Caputo acknowledged that the lack of testing was an issue.March 11: Caputo tweets,"For the Democrat 2020 victory strategy to work, 100,000+ Americans have to die. For the Democrat 2020 victory strategy to work, you have to believe the media.
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