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Star Reporter Drives HHS Spox to Terrifying Peristatic Meltdown. Yesterday @JoshKovensky broke the story of the Trump admin cutting off federal funding for COVID testing sites. It drove news and was picked up by numerous other outlets. Original story here. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/exclusive-feds-about-to-bail-on-supporting-covid-testing-sites-in-texas-and-other-states
2/ Longtime Roger Stone Associate Michael Caputo was recently installed by the White House to be the chief Spokesman for HHS which runs CDC, FDA, basically all federal health stuff. He held a conference call today to try to put out the fire and he seems to have had ...
3/ an epic meltdown with dozens of reporters covering the story. Here's a CNBC piece about the call and what seems to have been a temporary loss of reason or possibly even bodily control. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/24/hhs-spokesman-michael-caputo-blasts-coronavirus-reporters.html?__source=twitter%7Cmain
4/ They refer to him "angrily unloaded on dozens of journalists" in a "tirade" that led to a "abrupt termination of the conference call." During the tirade he accused Kovensky and TPM of "undermin[ing] public confidence in the public health system" by reporting on ...
5/ the funding cut off.
6/ I've seldom seen such militant snow-flaking even from a Trumper.
Just noticed I left an L out of peristaltic. Caputo had a "peristaltic meltdown" which is terrifying on many levels.
