The fall of the Cuomo brothers, what’re the odds? Will the Governor of New York be forced to address the deaths of thousands of nursing home residents in the state of New York? Will his little brother Chris be forced to answer for his journalistic malpractice?
It was Governor Cuomo’s directive that forced nursing homes across the state to take in COVID positive patients. This is believed to have planted the seed of the infection that killed thousands of elderly residents.
As reported on Fox News, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo may be taking his younger brother, CNN’s Chris Cuomo, down with him in the nursing home scandal in which the governor withheld the true number of coronavirus deaths at the facilities in order to avoid federal scrutiny.
The Cuomo brothers had joked light-heartedly on air about trivial topics while the scandal was unfolding, discussing which of the two would be considered their mother’s favorite child, according to Fox News. In one interview, the CNN anchor even gave his brother a cartoonishly oversized cotton swab to use for a coronavirus test.
Outrage is growing over the fact that as the surging death toll in nursing homes was being questioned, Chris Cuomo continuously treated his brother with kid gloves on his CNN show, “Cuomo Prime Time,” largely avoiding the scandal and instead carrying out playful on-air conversations with him.
“This isn’t just a government scandal. It’s a media scandal,” New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz wrote in a column. “For while the Cuomo administration was sentencing seniors to death, the media was busy fawning over Cuomo in a series of softball interviews, many of them conducted by his own brother.”
Governor Cuomo’s office confirmed the contents of a recording that shows the governor and his team withheld the nursing home coronavirus death toll from state legislators out of fear it could be used against them by the Trump administration. The governor’s top aide, Melissa DeRosa, has admitted the governor’s office withheld the numbers.
Even after the governor’s aide revealed the deceit about the true number of deaths, Chris Cuomo has neither mentioned it on his show nor has he tweeted about it.
New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio is now calling for ‘Full Accounting’ of Cuomo’s alleged nursing home death cover-up.
A bit of history: Throughout the pandemic, the governor had become a sweetheart of the liberal media, even writing a book about his leadership. Note that in his book, Cuomo acknowledged only nursing home residents who died of COVID-19 inside their residences, which was approximately 6,500. This is now known not to be the full extent of the death total. The governor also won an Emmy Award for his coronavirus briefings, which received glowing coverage on CNN.
What say you Def-Con News readers? Will Governor Cuomo see the inside of a court room? Will Chris Cuomo face serious scrutiny for his lack of journalistic integrity? Will justice be served for thousands of families who lost loved ones to the recklessness of Governor Cuomo?
