CNN anchor Jake Tapper has repeatedly acknowledged the latest allegation of sexual misconduct against New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but apparently has no time to talk about the claims in his own program.
The Albany Times Union on Tuesday afternoon published claims by a sixth Cuomo accuser, an unnamed former associate who claimed Cuomo touched her inappropriately at the governor’s house late last year.
Tapper, known as a regular Twitter user, tweeted the report again after it was shared by Times Union editor Casey Seiler.
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However, Tapper made no mention of the sixth accuser in his show, “The Lead.” The rest of his CNN colleagues also avoided the story.
On Wednesday night, the Times Union followed up its initial report with a bomb containing disturbing details about the woman’s demands.
“The staff member, whose identity is being withheld by the Times Union, was summoned to the mansion under the apparent pretext that she would help the governor with a minor technical problem with his cellphone,” the newspaper reported, citing a source citing to direct knowledge of the allegation. “They were alone in Cuomo’s private home on the second floor when he closed the door and allegedly reached out from under her blouse and, according to the source, began to love her.”
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The report continued: ‘The person, who is not authorized to comment in public, said that the woman – who is much younger than Cuomo – told the governor to stop. Her broader allegations include that he regularly had flirting behavior with her and that this was not the only time he touched her. ‘
Cuomo denied the allegations but called the reported details as a gut attack.
A report on the alleged suitcase has since been sent to Albany police by the New York State Executive Chamber.
Tapper not only posted the Times Union report in his account, but repeated Cuomo’s response to the protest, which was posted by others.
However, there was still no talk of Cuomo’s sixth accuser in the air.
Instead, Tapper delivered an extensive report on Thursday on the latest Cuomo drama, in which New York Mayor Bill de Blasio appeared in calls for his resignation and the program’s own fact-checking of Cuomo’s misleading nursing home rhetoric in the early days. months of the coronavirus. pandemic.
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Addressing the allegations of sexual misconduct, CNN correspondent Brynn Gingras told Tapper: ‘Five women, four who previously worked with or for the governor, have publicly accused Cuomo of sexual harassment or inappropriate behavior. , and they emphasized the accusers who were ‘in public’. emerged.
The unexplained omission continued Friday, even after New York magazine published an essay written by Cuomo’s seventh accuser, former Albany reporter Jessica Bakeman.
Bakeman claims that the governor touched her inappropriately and made her feel uncomfortable in an attempt to impose his power on the young journalist.
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“I never thought the governor wanted to have sex with me. It was not about sex. It was about power,” Bakeman wrote. “He uses poignant and sexual insinuations to instill fear in us. That is the definition of sexual harassment in the textbook.”
Like previous reports, Tapper tweeted the essay twice after it was shared by two CNN analysts, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman and Washington Post reporter Seung Min Kim.
On Friday’s episode of ‘The Lead’, neither the allegations of Bakeman nor the sixth accuser are mentioned in Tapper’s report on Cuomo.
After Tapper attacked Cuomo’s comments during a telephone conversation with reporters in which the governor attacked ‘canceling the culture’ and claiming that he was ‘not part of a political club’, Tapper referred to ‘at least five’ accused who came forward despite the fact that there were seven prosecutors at the time his program was broadcast.
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Conservative commentator Stephen Miller, a vocal critic of Tapper on Twitter, told Fox News that CNN’s strongman has a “reputation” for retweeting “damning stories from Democrats” and “this is his way of discussing it,” and then the topics in his program are different. “
“He plays the role [CNN President] Jeff Zucker wants him to play, like almost everyone at CNN. Pretty simple, ‘Miller said.
Tapper did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.
Tapper’s colleague, Wolf Blitzer, did address Bakeman’s claims about ‘The Situation Room’. However, after a guest referred to the sixth defendant’s protest, Blitzer told viewers that CNN did not claim confirmation of the woman’s name.
The pro-Cuomo network had previously run two full days without mentioning the explosive coverage of the Times Union outlining the protesting allegation. As several CNN anchors reported on the ‘latest’ developments, they even got away from the sixth accuser’s claim on Thursday.
Nearly 40 minutes after the 3-hour ET program on Thursday, CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin addressed the 59 New York Democrats who signed a letter to undertake Cuomo’s resignation and invited Democratic State Assembly Councilor Zohran Mamdani, who expressed his support has for the accusation of the governor.
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During the interview, Mamdani mentioned the Times Union report, but Baldwin did not admit the sixth accused and moved on to another question about the accusation.
Later that day, both Tapper and Blitzer skipped the tangled allegation while covering up the Cuomo scandals.
On Friday’s “New Day”, his daily morning program, CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota gently pushed back after her guest, New York Times journalist Jesse McKinley, said that “six” accused had come forward against Cuomo at the time and told viewers: “CNN could not confirm the number.”
CNN used to go a whole day long before mentioning the allegations by Cuomo’s first prosecutor, Lindsey Boylan, a former assistant who wrote an essay and accused her former boss of making unwanted, inappropriate remarks and forcing her on kissed the lips.
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Meanwhile, the Liberal Network has had no problem handling an anonymous woman’s allegation of sexual misconduct against current Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, after it was reported that a letter was sent to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, during the Trump appointment of the 2018 confirmation hearings. . That woman was later identified as dr. Christine Blasey Ford.
CNN previously did not respond to Fox News’ request for comment.
The mainstream media praised Cuomo’s ‘leadership’ earlier in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic; CNN media correspondent Brian Stelter at one point silently said that Cuomo offers ‘hope’ and that he will pass on Cuomo’s advice to his own children.
The governor is the older brother of the network’s anchor, Chris Cuomo, who puts CNN in an awkward position.
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Instead of covering the Democratic governor objectively, CNN allowed the “Cuomo Prime Time” army to welcome the governor for a series of nice interviews that were not substantive, but which were big fanfare.
While Governor Cuomo’s controversial policies are virtually unreported, the CNN anchor has made enough time for fraternal mockery, underscoring the president’s prospects and even plug comedy.
While his brother is now facing several scandals and investigations, as well as an appeal for his resignation and accusation, Chris Cuomo said he obviously could not cover the apparent governor, despite earlier criticism of CNN’s’ Cuomo-Cuomo variety acid ‘.