The top spokesman at Health and Human Services accused scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of “sedition” for their response to the coronavirus pandemic and warned people to buy guns and ammo because an insurrection led by Democrats could start on Inauguration Day if President Trump refuses to “stand down,” according to a report Monday.
Michael Caputo, who was appointed by the president to be the HHS spokesman in April, claimed without providing evidence that the CDC was creating a haven for a “resistance unit” working to undermine Trump, the New York Times reported.
Caputo also said his life 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,” he told his followers in a live video posted on his Facebook page Sunday.
Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) recently introduced legislation that would create a "National Center for Anti-Racism" as well as a "Law Enforcement Violence Prevention Program," both of them under the jurisdiction of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.