GOP representative Matt Gaetz exploded in the media for portraying Government Andrew Cuomo as an ‘oracle’ in his coronavirus response – after it emerged that his top assistant had conceded that the government was covering the number of deaths in the old age home.
“The media is absolutely guilty of promoting this Cuomo mythology that is viewed by the facts, and the facts are getting uglier and uglier, both for the governor of New York and the media,” Gaetz told Fox’s Jeanine Pirro on Saturday. News said.
Gaetz said the media simultaneously thought of Cuomo during his daily national television briefings as the ‘great oracle of response to the coronavirus; they carry out the flu against our president, and act as if everything he does causes virus to be more deadly. ”
The Republican in Florida said former President Donald Trump puts the country on the “path to the fastest, safest vaccine development the world has ever known.”
He said Trump’s efforts are still saving lives, even if the controversy over Cuomo’s death in the nursing home has only been brought to light.
‘Here, your government Cuomo may have had records destroyed that proved that this scheme was very deadly. Everyone is familiar with the Times Square game of cards. But here they played three-card Monte with grandma, moved people from nursing homes to the hospital and then injected the virus into old age homes again, ‘Gaetz said.
The Post revealed last week that leading Cuomo assistant Melissa DeRosa told them during a video conference with Democratic leaders that the governor’s office was rejecting a legislative request for the numbers because he feared the Trump administration it would turn into a ‘giant political football’.
“He starts tweeting that we killed everyone in nursing homes,” DeRosa said. ‘He starts chasing [New Jersey Gov. Phil] Murphy, start chasing [California Gov. Gavin] Newsom, start afterwards [Michigan Gov.] Gretchen Whitmer. ”
A number of lawmakers, including former Prime Minister George Pataki, have launched an investigation into the Cuomo government by President Biden’s Justice Department, Attorney General Letitia James and the legislature.
“This is one of the worst things I’ve seen in the New York government, and I’ve been following it for a long time,” Pataki said.