Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., Blames the news media for putting New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on a pedestal, despite his bungled handling of the coronavirus pandemic, including withholding unfavorable information about the state’s nursing home COVID -19, according to after a top aid.
The assistant apparently told Democratic leaders that the government was worried that the data would be used against us.
“The media is absolutely guilty of promoting this mythology of Cuomo that is viewed by the facts,” he told Justice with Judge Jeanine on Saturday. “And the facts are getting uglier and uglier.”
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Gaetz explained that the media treated Cuomo as an ‘oracle’ of the pandemic, while targeting former President Donald Trump on his response to the virus.
“The 45th president has put us on the path to the fastest, safest vaccine development the world has ever known,” he said. “And we are still seeing the consequences of President Trump’s actions in saving lives, and unfortunately we are only beginning to discover to what extent the actions of Government Cuomo cost lives.”
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The congressman said Cuomo and his team could shave off the death toll by ignoring patients who were exposed in nursing homes but died in hospitals.
“They did it to disguise the choices they made to put blood on their hands,” he said.
Gaetz linked the coronavirus response in Florida compared to New York as a ‘story of two governors’. According to him, the National Guard in Florida has been used to ensure that nursing homes remain clean of virus infection, while the younger, less affected generations have the free will to ‘live their lives’.
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“While they were destroying small businesses in New York, they were destroying education,” he said. “And then the people they are supposed to take care of the most are in the greatest danger.”