According to senior Trump aide Michael Caputo, 'scientists have given up science and become political animals'
told his Facebook following during a Facebook Live event that scientists, “deep in the bowels of the CDC have given up science and become political animals.”
Though he has no background in health or science, Caputo was tapped to become assistant secretary of public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services in April, two months after Trump told the American public that COVID-19 would “” He essentially leads an 80,000-person department that is the heart of the country’s public health unit, which includes the Food and Drug Administration, the CDC, and the National Institutes of Health.
On Saturday, Politico reported that Caputo, along with several of Trump’s aides, had made concerted efforts to censor Dr.wrote in an email
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