New York Governor Andrew Cuomo faced a political firestorm last week when it was revealed that a top aide admitted to fellow Democrats that the administration essentially hid data on nursing-home deaths amid the COVID outbreak to prevent former President Trump from politicizing the unfavorable numbers.
The New York Post said it obtained a recording of the meeting that included Melissa DeRosa, an aide for the governor.
“We froze. We were in a position where we weren’t sure if what we were going to give to the Department of Justice or what we give to you guys and what we start saying was going to be used against us and we weren’t sure if there was going to be an investigation,” she said, according to the report.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the meeting occurred around the same time Trump was attacking Cuomo’s response to the virus on Twitter. De Rosa’s comments were seized by Cuomo’s critics.
Representative Tom Reed called for an immediate probe into Cuomo’s response to the outbreak. He told Fox News it’s a good time for President Biden to make good on his promise to use the Justice Department in an “honorable way.”
“We’re going to make sure the Justice Department does just that. And we’re going to use those tools of justice to make sure those fifteen thousand souls that died are going to be heard from and justice will be done.”
TRENDPOST: According to Fox News, a search of transcripts found that the words “nursing homes” and “Andrew Cuomo” were not uttered once on Thursday night during the primetime hours of 8 to 11 PM on CNN or MSNBC.
Andrew Cuomo had been considered a rising star in the Democratic Party, and his public rebukes of Trump were widely embraced by the mainstream media. He was christened with an Emmy Award for being the perfect TV personality of selling lies, bullshit, and arrogance – a top-priority, mainstream media staple – for his daily COVID War briefings.
Indeed, right out of central casting, Bruce Paisner, CEO of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, said that Cuomo’s 111 briefings were a hit because he somehow managed to create “television shows with characters, plot lines, and stories of success and failure.”
As we reported, Cuomo also got a book deal from Crown Publishing Group, but he refuses to reveal how much the book company paid him… to write in his spare time while playing his role as Governor of New York State. Some three years ago, he got $738,000 from HarperCollins for his memoir, which sold only 3,200 copies, according to Buffalo News.
