WASHINGTON – A Trump health appointee who used his agency as a platform for political attacks and allegedly sought to muzzle a scientific publication has become the latest distraction for a White House still struggling to define its coronavirus response.Michael Caputo, the top spokesman at the Department of Health and Human Services, can be heard on an agency podcast asserting that Democrats don't want a coronavirus vaccine in order to punish President Donald Trump.Recent news reports also alleged that his office tried to muzzle a scientific weekly published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That was followed by an account of a video on Caputo’s personal Facebook page in which the Trump loyalist accused government.