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Cuomo-gate: a Nixonian scandal is engulfing New York
Guardian ^ | 2/18/2021 | David Sirota

Posted on 02/19/2021 7:17:29 AM PST by Onthebrink

The biggest political scandal in America right now is playing out in New York, where Governor Andrew Cuomo is in a lot of trouble – and rightly so. The Democratic governor did not merely wildly mismanage his state’s response to the Covid emergency, while netting himself a lucrative book deal and an Emmy. He did something worse.

In the middle of a public health emergency, he used his office to help one of his largest political donors shield itself from legal consequences as 15,000 nursing home residents died from Covid-19 – and then he and his administration underreported that death toll, helping the same donor.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: andrewcuomo; newyork; nursinghome
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1 posted on 02/19/2021 7:17:29 AM PST by Onthebrink
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To: Onthebrink

The coverup is worse than the crime.


2 posted on 02/19/2021 7:20:32 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE (CENSORSHIP = VIOLENCE)
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To: Onthebrink

Nixon was not an incompetent arrogant jackass and Nixon did not send 15,000 senior citizens to an agonizing death


3 posted on 02/19/2021 7:20:35 AM PST by silverleaf (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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To: Onthebrink

One obvious difference, Woodward and Bernstein (representing the corrupt GOP hating media) are stone cold silent about this, no interest.


4 posted on 02/19/2021 7:20:38 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Onthebrink

“Nixonian”? Covering up a bungled burglary is not in the same universe as covering up the needless deaths of thousands of elderly citizens. Nixon looks like a saint compared to Cuomo.


5 posted on 02/19/2021 7:21:10 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Onthebrink

There’s more of a chance of Nancy Pelosi turning conservative than anything happening to Cuomo. The play acting will go on for 2 more weeks and suddenly it will disappear faster than the Juicy Smollet case and Cuomo will run again in 2022 and the neo-Marxists will probably even reelect him. It’s going to be one of the most blatant displays of political double standards ever and the neo-Marxists aren’t going to give a damn what we think or the families of Cuomos victims think


6 posted on 02/19/2021 7:27:15 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: Onthebrink
Cuomo-gate: a Nixonian scandal ...

Yeah, Nixonian, couldn't be Marxist ...

7 posted on 02/19/2021 7:27:22 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Onthebrink

What about Whitmer? The other states that sent COVID patients into nursing homes?


8 posted on 02/19/2021 7:32:56 AM PST by School of Rational Thought
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To: 1Old Pro

Letitia James, the AG of New York State, is out to get Andrew Cuomo, by any means necessary and possible, legality be damned, even though it would be on her side.

Soulless people engaging other soulless people. I love it when they start eating their own.

The snake devouring its own tail, with apparent great relish.


9 posted on 02/19/2021 7:33:18 AM PST by alloysteel (Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition.)
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To: Onthebrink

Now we are about to see whether a blue state’s democratic institutions can hold wrongdoers accountable, or whether America’s culture of impunity can once again protect the powerful from facing any consequences at all.”””

Putting aside pressure from aggrieved families, which must be immense, the Demonparty I think is throwing Fredo II under the bus because they sense in their cunning rat-like way that the public perception of their lawlessness is reaching critical mass.


10 posted on 02/19/2021 7:33:29 AM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: School of Rational Thought

We’re they on tv hours a day pontificating?


11 posted on 02/19/2021 7:34:06 AM PST by gcparent (Justice Amy Coney Barrett)
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To: alloysteel

I do enjoy watching rats eat their own.


12 posted on 02/19/2021 7:35:00 AM PST by gcparent (Justice Amy Coney Barrett)
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To: Onthebrink

Scandals only engulf Republicans.


13 posted on 02/19/2021 7:35:14 AM PST by Starboard
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

You have it right.


14 posted on 02/19/2021 7:36:45 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Onthebrink

Hopefully the little thug bully will get his comeupance......but I’m still pesimistic.


15 posted on 02/19/2021 7:36:57 AM PST by V_TWIN (Where's Hunter???)
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To: silverleaf

If Nixon had killed 15k people...a lot of family members would have hunted him down, and there wouldn’t be much that the Secret Service could do in protecting the guy.

If I were Cuomo, I’d start planning some exit strategy....maybe hiding out in Qatar or Singapore.


16 posted on 02/19/2021 7:37:19 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

They need John Durham to investigate this. The only charges coming out of it would be some nursing home admissions clerk who would be disciplined by the clerk’s association.


17 posted on 02/19/2021 7:42:26 AM PST by laconic
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To: Onthebrink

I just love the possibility that after two attempts to impeach Trump, Cuomo and Newsom may be the ones who take the fall...two for two...fair, don’t you think?


18 posted on 02/19/2021 7:46:30 AM PST by LizzieD
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To: Onthebrink

Pay no attention to the Cuomo behind the nursing home curtain.

Ted Cruz flew to Cancun! Now THAT’S a scandal.

(Do I really need a /sarc?)


19 posted on 02/19/2021 7:48:57 AM PST by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: Onthebrink

Victims’ families need to present a class action suit!

What’s taking so long?


20 posted on 02/19/2021 7:50:36 AM PST by SMARTY (“If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.” Winston Churchill)
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