#michael caputo

If you take the time to read this article (or similar articles in other media outlets), you have to conclude that this man, michael caputo, has a problem between his ears. Here are some excerpt from this New York Times story:

The top communications official at the powerful cabinet department in charge of combating the coronavirus made outlandish and false claims on Sunday that career government scientists were engaging in “sedition” in their handling of the pandemic and that left-wing hit squads were preparing for armed insurrection after the election.

Michael Caputo, 58, the assistant secretary of public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services, said without evidence that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was harboring a “resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump.

Mr. Caputo, who has faced criticism for leading efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger.

“You understand that they’re going to have to kill me, and unfortunately, I think that’s where this is going,” Mr. Caputo, a Trump loyalist installed by the White House in April, told followers in a video he hosted live on his personal Facebook page.

Mr. Caputo delivered his broadside against scientists, the media and Democrats after a spate of news reports over the weekend that detailed his team’s systematic interference in the C.D.C.’s official reports on the pandemic and other disease outbreaks. Former and current C.D.C. officials described to Politico first, then The New York Times and other outlets how Mr. Caputo and a top aide routinely demanded the agency revise, delay and even scuttle the C.D.C.’s core public health updates, called Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports, that they believed undercut Mr. Trump’s message that the pandemic is under control.

Those reports, deemed “the holiest of the holy” by one former top health official for their international respect and importance, have traditionally been so shielded from political interference that political appointees see them only just before they are published.

As the Trump campaign’s director of national security, I was personally subjected to #Resistance terror. And why?

First, for shaking hands and chatting briefly with Russia’s Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in a group of 50-plus foreign ambassadors during the State Department-sponsored Global Partners in Diplomacy, where I was a guest speaker during the GOP National Convention in Cleveland.

Second, the week prior during the GOP platform deliberations, I faithfully discharged my duties to protect Mr. Trump’s stated positions on national security — which included a desire for better relations with Russia, avoiding World War Three over Ukraine, and ensuring our European allies do more for defense. These goals were shared by the Obama administration. Despite that fact, when the Trump-Russia collusion narrative skyrocketed in early 2017, I became one of America’s “most wanted and dangerous” for about six months. Members of Congress made false statements about me and my colleagues on national television. Our pictures were plastered everywhere – on misleading graphs, charts and in countless stories by CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post and The New York Times.

Like many other innocent Americans presumed guilty in the media, I was summoned to testify before the House Intelligence Committee, Senate Intelligence Committee, Senate Judiciary Committee and the special counsel – three times. Earlier this year the House Judiciary Committee sent me an ominous sounding request for years-old documents that I learned about from an ABC reporter. (RELATED: How The Media Covered Up The Real Collusion, Between Russians And The Hillary Campaign)

This all led to five-figure legal bills that came from my military retirement pay. Dozens of hostile journalists hounded me, day and night. Many wrote inflammatory stories designed for maximum character assassination. That led to multiple stalkers and years of public harassment.

Fortunately, my campaign colleague Michael Caputo generously reimbursed my legal bills from his GoFundMe page, for which he sacrificed dearly to earn. Yet our lost years under vicious assault by the Resistance are not recoverable — nor is the reputational damage.

Six of our former colleagues were indicted. Three for white collar financial crimes, and three for process crimes caused by the investigations. None of those charges were for Trump-Russia collusion, the stated reason for the inquisition. Yet all six were smeared as “Russian agents” every night on cable news, fueled by routinely misleading criminal leaks from government investigators. Dozens of others never charged like Carter Page had their lives permanently damaged, if not destroyed, by this government-media crime wave.

Evidence Trumps “I don’t recall” 

Mueller’s #WitchHunt is exposing so many Russians: foreign and domestic. The #RussiaGate conspiracy against America is wide and deep #RepublicansComplicit

Cost savings tip for the Justice Department. You can use the 2 ankle bracelets Paul Manafort no longer needs for Roger Stone and Michael Caputo. Taxpayers #SoMuchWinning

The Washington Post’s Manuel Roig-Franzia and Rosalind Helderman reported Sunday morning that, in late May 2016, longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone met with a Russian national calling himself “Henry Greenberg” at a restaurant in Sunny Isles, Florida.

At that point, Stone was not officially part of the Trump campaign. However, Michael Caputo, a longtime business associate of Stone’s who was still on the Trump campaign at that point, had arranged the meeting.

“Stone’s current story about this meeting he’s only now disclosing is that he was asked for $2 million for the information, but turned it down because he knew Trump was too cheap to pay for it.”

Stone and Caputo claim that they then both “forgot” about the meeting, per the Post — neither mentioned it during sworn testimony to the House Intelligence Committee, and Stone has previously claimed that he never talked “to anybody who was identifiably Russian” in the relevant period. Caputo says he was only reminded that it happened when special counsel Robert Mueller’s team asked him about it in a grand jury interview last month.

The big picture, though, is that in June of 2018, a year and a half after the 2016 campaign ended, we are still learning of new shady contacts between close Trump allies and individuals tied to Russia — in this case, again tied specifically to getting dirt on Hillary Clinton. The question is still whether a deal or agreement of some sort was ever formalized. 

“Caputo learned for certain that Mueller knew about the meeting, and had texts to prove it, during his grand jury testimony on May 2 — so a further cover-up to hide its existence from the special counsel was obviously pointless.”

From Washington Post

In May of 2016, a Russian calling himself “Henry Greenberg” told Trump campaign communications official Michael Caputo that he had “information he wanted to share that would be helpful to Trump’s campaign.” Caputo set up a meeting between Greenberg and Trump advisor Roger Stone.

Greenberg told Stone he had “damaging information about Hillary Clinton” and “wanted Trump to pay $2 million for the political dirt.” Stone replied, “You don’t understand Donald Trump. He doesn’t pay for anything.” Stone told Caputo that Greenberg wanted “big” money so it was “a waste of time.”

Neither Stone nor Caputo ever mentioned this meeting when testifying before the House Intelligence Committee. Caputo was specifically asked “whether he’d ever been offered information about the Clinton campaign by a Russian, and he either answered ‘no’ or that he could not recall.” Stone went one better, declaring in a taped interview:

“I didn’t talk to anybody who was identifiably Russian during the two-year run-up to this campaign. I very definitely can’t think of anybody who might have been a Russian without my knowledge. It’s a canard.”

Then they were shown the text messages between Stone and Caputo discussing the meeting and specifically referring to Greenberg as “the Russian.” So now they say “their memories were refreshed.”