Michael Caputo, assistant secretary of public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services, claimed Sunday that there is a “resistance unit” of “seditious” government scientists at the CDC working to undermine President Donald Trump.
Mad as a box of frogs, as our British friends would say. Also, of course, appalling that a lunatic like this would be anywhere near a position of influence in an institution of science…
I don’t want to buy into the current climate of conspiracymongering, but you really wonder sometimes whether this entire administration isn’t a living, breathing, ongoing campaign of sabotage…
Additional snippets from the NYT article. (Not behind the paywall, apparently.)
“I don’t like being alone in Washington,” he said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.”
They “haven’t gotten out of their sweatpants except for meetings at coffee shops” to plot “how they’re going to attack Donald Trump next,” Mr. Caputo said. “There are scientists who work for this government who do not want America to get well, not until after Joe Biden is president.”
In his livestream, Caputo also dipped into conspiracy theorizing about Trump winning reelection, but former Vice President Joe Biden refusing 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 said, adding, “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get.”
For all you film buffs, we’re at the point in the “Caine Mutiny” where after he melts down on the witness stand, Queeg is given a Congressional Medal Of Honor…