Posted on 02/11/2021 8:47:46 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A pair of bombshell revelations dropped Thursday and further exposed the corruption of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D). The first shoe to drop came from the Associated Press, early in the evening, and it found Cuomo had sent over 9,000 elderly coronavirus patients back to their long-term care centers (far more than they first claimed). The second story came in the form of a recorded phone call obtained by the New York Post where an aide admits the administration intentionally covered up nursing home deaths.
The AP story dropped before the broadcast networks went to air, but none of them covered it. Not even a news brief. This meant ABC’s World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News chose not to share the politically damaging story with their viewers.
Instead of covering Cuomo’s deadly incompetence, ABC gawked at police horses that ran down a street. CBS focused on a frivolous story about the British royal family. And over on NBC, they showed off an art museum. A true showcase of their priorities.
“The new number of 9,056 recovering patients sent to hundreds of nursing homes is more than 40% higher than what the state health department previously released,” wrote the AP. “And it raises new questions as to whether a March 25 directive from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration helped spread sickness and death among residents, a charge the state disputes.”
While the broadcast networks were helping to hide the blood on Cuomo’s hands, anchor Bret Baier was on Fox News Channel’s Special Report noting this:
The moves were made under a controversial order by Governor Andrew Cuomo. That order was rescinded in May amid criticism it accelerated outbreaks. New figures come as the Cuomo administration has been forced in recent weeks to acknowledge the overall number of COVID-19 deaths among long-term care residents is nearly 15,000, up from 8,500 previously disclosed.
Now, the New York Post’s revelations dropped just as ABC and CBS were wrapping up their newscasts, and NBC’s was just about to begin. But their refusal to report the first bombshell made covering “[t]he stunning admission of a cover-up” all that more important and necessary for their Friday morning newscasts.
According to one of Cuomo’s aides, the administration’s reason for covering up nursing home deaths was entirely corrupt and self-serving. “Governor Cuomo’s top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state’s nursing-home death toll from COVID-19 — telling them ‘we froze’ out of fear the true numbers would ‘be used against us’ by federal prosecutors,” the paper wrote.
Of course, Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa blamed their cover-up on then-President Trump (Click “expand”):
“He starts tweeting that we killed everyone in nursing homes,” DeRosa said. “He starts going after [New Jersey Gov. Phil] Murphy, starts going after [California Gov. Gavin] Newsom, starts going after [Michigan Gov.] Gretchen Whitmer.”
In addition to attacking Cuomo’s fellow Democratic governors, DeRosa said, Trump “directs the Department of Justice to do an investigation into us.”
“And basically, we froze,” she told the lawmakers on the call.
The New York Post later noted that the Cuomo administration was also prioritizing apologizing to fellow Democrats over the families who had relatives die by his order.
Now, let’s see if the networks dare to cover the truth.
The networks’ role in the cover up was made possible because of the lucrative sponsorships from WeatherTech on ABC, Liberty Mutual on CBS, and Ford Motor Company on NBC. Their contact information is linked so you can tell them about the biased news they fund.
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
Fox News Channel’s Special Report
February 11, 2021
6:28:06 p.m. EasternBRET BAIER: Breaking tonight. In the early days of the pandemic in New York, more than 9,000 recovering coronavirus patients were released from hospitals and put into nursing homes. That’s according to new records out tonight obtained by the Associated Press. 9,000. That figure is more than 40 percent higher than what we had previously known and had been released by the state Health Department in New York.
The moves were made under a controversial order by Governor Andrew Cuomo. That order was rescinded in May amid criticism it accelerated outbreaks. New figures come as the Cuomo administration has been forced in recent weeks to acknowledge the overall number of COVID-19 deaths among long-term care residents is nearly 15,000, up from 8,500 previously disclosed.
And Andrew Cuomo received a “Special Emmy Award” for his leadership in handling of the Coronavirus crisis in the State of New York... tsk, tsk, tsk.
See here:
All creepy POSs
I really don’t understand what the story is. First of all, democrats are liars. Second, they kill babies, hence they don’t give a crap about lives. Does this really surprise anyone? It sure doesn’t surprise me!
Sure they did!
The New Yawk Italian idiot Cuomo, so called Governor, will “cop” to hiding the Nursing home figures requested by the Trump administration (there was no DOJ or FBI, mind you...barr and wray...f’n jokes).
All to distract and cover up fact that Cuomo sent Red Death Chinese Wuhan infected patients and infected medical workers to the most vulnerable populations in his state.
The great state of New Yawk!
Cuomo the killer.
Giffs like this are why I still have a Facebook account. This is the only type thing I post there.
The ladydude Sec of Health in Pennsylvania did the same thing after removing his own mother from a nursing home. He’s now headed for the federal government. The definition of failing up.
All of this information was completely obvious six months ago, but no one on the Political Left said one word about it until now.
They had the Billy Graham Jr popup hospital, the Army Corp of Engineers popup hospital and the Navy Hospital Ship Comfort in New York Harbor—all basically empty. What does murderer Cuomo do? He sent over 9,000 elderly coronavirus patients back to their long-term care centers. That caused 18,000 elderly deaths and set up a cauldron of contagion for a new outbreak; the worst in the U.S.
Cuomo should be indicted for criminally negligent homicide.
Where is the crying and wailing,?
The extreme outrage?
The lawsuits?
Cuomo’s prosecution?
Hear it was 12000+
Liberals judge themselves and their other fellow liberals on ‘their intentions’... and ONLY their intentions.
And since liberals see themselves as kind, empathetic and noble... and not the kind of people who would ‘intend’ to murder old people - they give each other and Andrew Cuomo a pass.
These same silly ‘journalists’ would condemn a conservative for the same choices resulting in thousands of deaths because they’ve decided we have ‘bad intentions’... That’s why the silly willies at the New York Times et al don’t care about the deaths caused by Andrew Cuomo..
Btt
RE: They had the Billy Graham Jr popup hospital, the Army Corp of Engineers popup hospital and the Navy Hospital Ship Comfort in New York Harbor—all basically empty.
Don’t forget the 2,500 bed hospital they created for the Jacobs Javits Convention Center - I think this one saw less than a hundred patients.
RE: They had the Billy Graham Jr popup hospital
That was the Samaritan’s Purse tent hospital in Central Park. The Mayor Bill de Blasio essentially sent them packing after a few weeks of providing treatment for EVERYONE because Franklin Graham was against gay marriage.
Never mind that this hospital does not ask about your sexual orientation when they treat you. They accept EVERY sick person.
De Blasio kicked them out for this.
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