‘It Nearly Killed Me’

Former Trump aide Michael Caputo, who left the administration in the fall of 2020 to battle cancer, is profiled by Politico:

“A bit more than six months shy of 60 years old, Caputo is not who he used to be — and it’s not just because he’s significantly thinner and remains physically weakened from punishing rounds of radiation. He’s not who he used to be, and can’t be, he has told me repeatedly, because he’s convinced that doing what he was doing — trafficking in the social media acidity and angry, slash-and-burn politics that have come to define this disquieting and unsettled American moment — is what almost killed him, not metaphorically but literally, as specific and causal as cigarettes and lung disease.”

Said Caputo: “I think I finally understand after… everything. There’s much more to life.”