Dennis Quaid, star of The Right Stuff, Great Balls of Fire !, Dragonheart, and last year at Midway, is one of the celebrities known to be part of a fast-track advertising blitz regarding Covid -19 created on direct orders from President Donald Trump, according to a Politico report He will be joined by gospel singer CeCe Winans, and the report adds that the campaign has also approached TV doc Mehmet Oz and the star of the country Garth Brooks
The Department of Health and Human Services has initiated what some budget documents call an « immediate surge in public advertising » in an attempt to release material ahead of the election The push was – demanded of me by the President of the United States, personally, – according to Michael Caputo, Trump’s aide who has resigned his post as spokesperson for the United States. HHS on September 16 after being diagnosed with cancer
Among the main goals, three HHS officials told Politico, was to fight the media’s fixation on bad news « Overcome despair » and « restore hope » were also cited as goals
The $ 300 million in funding comes from an amount previously allocated to the Centers for Disease Control The CDC had no say in the campaign, according to Politico report
A $ 15 million contract was awarded to a group called Atlas Research, with the recommendation to employ a subcontractor called DD&T DD&T is a company run by Den Tolmor, a long-time business partner of Caputo, with who he launched a streaming platform
When asked about the Tolmor-Caputo connection, HHS public affairs official Mark Weber said he had no prior knowledge of their business relationship
Caputo, before stepping down from his post, claimed that scientists – deep in the bowels of the CDC have abandoned science and become political animals. He has also made statements about the National Antifa training teams and had already come under scrutiny for repeatedly referring to Covid-19 as the Chinese virus Leaving his post, he implored his future employees to listen to the Grateful Dead
It remains to be seen whether other celebrities will appear in the ads (Dr Oz initially seemed to agree with Trump’s fascination with hydroxychloroquine as a coronavirus drug) In an interview with the Daily Beast in April, Dennis Quaid said President Trump was « doing a good job » with handling the coronavirus crisis, and seemed quick to blame New York State for the need to share ventilators during the peak of the pandemic, as they were fortunate enough to buy them cheaply two years ago
Singer CeCe Winans made a statement on her social media after the Politico report was released, saying her taped conversation with Surgeon General Jerome Adams focused on prevention and was not political
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