Saturday, September 12, 2020

Trump Hack Abetted Lies About Coronavirus Danger




It's not just COVID Donnie with blood on his hands.  There's this Russian- connected Roger Stone conspiracy- mongering rat, too:
A former Trump campaign official now spokesman for the US health department sought to change key reports on the coronavirus pandemic, in some cases “openly complaining” that they “would undermine the president’s optimistic messages about the outbreak”, according to internal emails seen by Politico.
The official, Michael Caputo, told the website he was attempting to stymie “ulterior deep state motives in the bowels” of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC.  [snip]
Caputo, who became spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services in April, is a Republican consultant who worked on the Trump campaign in 2015 and 2016. He has links to Russia, having worked in the country’s energy industry, and to Roger Stone, a Trump ally whose sentence arising from the Russia investigation was commuted by the president.
Politico reported that under Caputo’s direction, CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports were subject to “substantial efforts to align … with Trump’s statements, including the president’s claims that fears about the outbreak are overstated, or stop the reports altogether”.
“Caputo and his team have attempted to add caveats to the CDC’s findings,” the website said, “including an effort to retroactively change agency reports that they said wrongly inflated the risks of Covid-19 and should have made clear that Americans sickened by the virus may have been infected because of their own behavior.”
This treasonous rat, beyond actively abetting COVID Donnie's lies about coronavirus and adding to the unnecessary death toll, is also a player in Russian intelligence efforts to smear the Bidens (even before Joe Biden became a candidate).  His employment by Stone (this Roger Stone) and fellow convicted felon Paul Manafort tell you all you need to know about his "values."

There will be plenty more Caputos uncovered as having had more concern about the fortunes of malignant moron COVID Donnie than of the health and well- being of the American people.  There can be no reconciliation with these people, only prosecution.

(Photo:  Caputo, getting marching orders from Russian intelligence.)