Senate health committee ranking member Patty Murray (D-WA) on Monday called for Health and Human Services secretary Alex Azar to demand the resignation of Michael Caputo, HHS assistant secretary of public affairs, after he reportedly claimed that a “resistance unit” of “seditious” government scientists at the CDC are working to undermine President Trump.
A top Trump administration health official appears to have deleted his Twitter account on Monday after he drew criticism for accusing career government scientists of plotting against President Trump and encouraged Trump supporters to arm themselves ahead of the November presidential election.
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Mnuchin went rogue during a CNBC interview:
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Monday said the country should not be focused on deficits as it struggles under the economic weight of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Powell said earlier that Congress should go big on stimulus and now Mnuchin is going against Mitch and Meadows. Thirty trillion in national debt may be just around the corner.
Because its looking like he might not be mentally well:
“You understand that they’re going to have to kill me, and unfortunately, I think that’s where this is going,” Caputo said, before launching into a dramatic rant about the “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long,” according to the Times.
Those are not the words of a sane or sober person.
No they are not, but they are the words of a man who works for a President that says men dressed in black got on planes. That Antifa is an organization with a headquarters. That raking the forest prevents forest fires, did anyone think to ask Smokey the Bear for a comment?
The is a game for Caputo and his good friend Roger Stone. This is their version political theater.
These people do say irrational things all the time, as part of their ideology, but talking about shadows on the ceiling is more like traditional crazy talk. I would be concerned if I heard someone talking like that.