HHS Spox Praised Far-Right Extremists In His Podcast

Media Matters reports:

On his now-defunct show Still Standing with Michael Caputo, the current HHS spokesperson pushed the debunked conspiracy theory that the coronavirus was invented “in a bioweapons facility in Wuhan,” used racist terms to refer to the virus, and said Democrats are calculating how long they can “actually keep the coronavirus concern ball in the air” in order to win the election.

He also praised various white supremacist and “alt-right” personalities, including neo-Nazi Milo Yiannopoulos and Pizzagate conspiracy theorists and “alt-right” Twitter personalities Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec. On his podcast, Caputo also pushed anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about billionaire progressive donor George Soros paying anti-Trump protesters and other conspiracy theories about Democrats, the media, and the Mueller investigation.

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