Governor Andrew Cuomo shifted blame to President Trump in an ongoing scandal that saw New York issue an order forcing nursing homes to take on patients that had tested positive for coronavirus.
Cuomo said any calls for a federal investigation into his state’s response to the pandemic and nursing homes is simply a political ploy.
“This is a political season, I get it,” Cuomo squirmed. “I’m not going to get into the political back-and-forth, but anyone who wants to ask why did the state do that with COVID patients in nursing homes, it’s because the state followed President Trump’s CDC guidance.”
Shifting blame to the White House is the very definition of a ‘political back-and-forth.’
He then doubled down in blaming Trump.
“They should ask President Trump. I think that will stop the conversation,” he added.
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Cuomo’s Deadly Mistake
The death toll in nursing homes in New York has exceeded 5,600, even as the governor’s administration has been caught shifting the criteria to lower the numbers.
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Cuomo issued an order on March 25th stating, “No resident shall be denied readmission or admission to NH solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19,” then failed to reverse the directive for six weeks as deaths mounted.
This man, who has done everything the exact opposite as Trump for three years now, suddenly wants you to believe he listened to the President’s advice.
Pressed further, Cuomo said he would have no opposition to an investigation.
“I’m not resistant,” he said. “If the federal government wants to start a probe, then they can start a probe.”
He added, “It is irrelevant to me … President Trump does what he wants to do. He doesn’t listen to a governor.”
Cuomo and Murphy run the two states with the highest death tolls (29K in NY, 11K in NJ). Neither protected nursing homes.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) May 20, 2020
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Shrugs Off Deaths
Governor Cuomo shocked reporters earlier this week when he downplayed the coronavirus deaths in nursing homes.
“What would you say to families who have suffered losses inside nursing homes?” one reporter asked him.
“Older people, vulnerable people are going to die from this virus. That is going to happen despite whatever you do,” Cuomo replied. “Because with all our progress as a society, we can’t keep everyone alive.”
Oh well?
Gov. Andrew Cuomo rationalizing:
“Older people, vulnerable people are going to die from this virus. That is going to happen despite whatever you do”
— James Hirsen (@thejimjams) May 18, 2020
Cuomo also suggested that should there be an investigation into his administration’s actions, nobody could be prosecuted.
“What is justice? Who can we prosecute for those deaths? Nobody. Nobody,” he rationalized. “Mother nature? God? Where did this virus come from? People are going to die by this virus.”
Nobody is to blame, in Cuomo’s mind. Well, except President Trump.
If there were any real reporters in New York, they’d start investigating Cuomo on their own. Instead, they hail him as a hero when the number of dead in New York far outpaces the rest of the country, and the governor has his fingerprints on a significant percentage of them.
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Typical Cuomo and typical weak leader like his father and his brother Fredo. Blame our president for his own misdeeds that backfired on him after all his pandering over the past few months to make himself look good. Then to add insult to injury both Andrew and Fredo went on TV and joked about lives lost as a result of Andrew’s mistakes. They are disgusting. No wonder he marches with Hillary, because as she blamed President Trump among others for her loss in 2016, Andrew blames President Trump for what he did wrong. Again they are disgusting.
BS Andrew….you made that decision on your own. You have the blood of over 5000 deaths of senior citizens on your hands. You’re a coward…may you rot in hell if not on the gallows
If you look up “idiot” in the dictionary you will see a picture of Cuomo.
Cuomo made a bad decision and he’s trying to blame President Trump. Typical democrat move.
This smacks of intentional neglect and lunacy from Governor Cuomo. Anyone who comes to the conclusion that sending COVID-19 positive patients into a nursing home facility would protect the elderly is beyond stupid, it is criminal. While at the same time, releasing prisoners from jail to protect them from the COVID-19 pandemic. You can’t make this stuff up because it defies commonsense and logic. The man should be arrested and removed from office immediately. He is more dangerous to New York residents than the virus itself. The bigger question remains, was it intentional on Governor Cuomo’s part? I say the answer is most likely, a resounding yes. Bolster the numbers, inflate the panic and play along with the Globalist Elite’s sick plan to destroy this country from within.
Trump is jealous of how professional Cuomo handled the virus and Trump didnt
Cuomo is the Governor of New York state, not Trump. All decisions have been made by the Governors for their states. Trump supplied New York City with a medical ship and built extra hospital beds to keep people safe. Trump did not order Cuomo to put Covid 19 patients in nursing homes. This was done by Cuomo as population control. Older people are a drain on the economy and expendable according to the Dem/Communist manifesto.
Typical Democrat blaming his own mismanagement on Trump.
Cuomo should be charged with murder. Since he’s above the law, hope he’s civilly sued
With Trump as President, it’s all his fault. With Obama as President, it was all Bush’s fault. Interesting.
I want to see this lying POS indicted for the deaths of hundreds, and perhaps even thousands, of elderly people.
Before you know it the dems will be saying “The devil made me do it.” They are the most irresponsible group in the US w/o a backbone and the first in line to grab the limelight if they think it will shine praise on them. Their made up impeachment and hoax Russian involvement stories have them so confused that they would not know truth if it hit them square plum in the face with a 2 by 4. The media perpetuates their lies and they are indistinguishable of one another. Thank goodness 78% of voters have them figured out.
It is amazing to me that this guy takes absolutely no responsibility for anything. He is such an arrogant person, that family should have been run out of NY after his fathers 8 years of screw ups. This constant blaming Trump for every damn thing that goes wrong is getting old, put your big boy pants on tough guy, admit your mistake, apologize to the families, resign your office and take Fredo with you.
After all that Pres. Trump did for this ungrateful pos for him to blame the Pres. for anything is ludicrous. The Pres, would never tell anyone to infect the elderly in nursing homes, Both men love themselves. The difference is Trump has room for others.
Nice try. I was watching his update the day he was told this was happening. He had no idea, he looked like a deer in headlights. He actually looked over to I’m assuming his staff and asked about it. If Trump had told him to do it he wouldn’t have acted surprised when a reporter asked him about it. And he was among the first to tell Trump he has no powers over the states. If Trump had told him that – and he disagreed with it – according to Cuomo he would have had the authority to disregard the order. He would have stated it on national TV for everyone to hear. Cuomo is full of you know what.
Breaking News: Gov Cuomo has just been admitted to the hospital for treatment of acute Trump Derangement Syndrome. He is expected to be there for at least a week, but could be in longer if he continues to display symptoms.
Cuomo could never be president. He can’t take responsibility for his own actions and decisions.
“Older people, vulnerable people are going to die from this virus. That is going to happen despite whatever you do,” Cuomo replied. “Because with all our progress as a society, we can’t keep everyone alive.”
No Cuomo homo here, but he’s right. Everyone dies. Old people die at a greater rate than do younger people, especially those who are also sick. Nursing homes are where people go to die. No one, in the history of the world, has ever got up, left a nursing home, and went back and started a business or found some scientific breakthrough. They’re there because they are so helpless and/or a danger to themselves that their kids don’t want to take care of them 24/7.
Yes it’s sad when anyone dies. It’s hard when Nanna or Grampa or Mom or Dad dies. Most people by middle-age experience losing their parents and grandparents. No one lives forever. So what sense does it make to shut down the entire country, to make the healthy and industrious sit at home and watch their livelihoods wither and die just to delay the inevitable for nursing home residents, some of whom don’t even know they’re alive and many of whom, having been ditched there by their selfish kids, are ready to go anyway?
I’m just glad DJT didn’t make that quote. Can you imagine? The House would impeach him under the Insensitivity Clause in the Constitution.
Hope Qumo gets the virus.
I spent two days weedeating and then it rained. Everyone knows that rain makes the weeds grow again. This is Trump’s fault. He should have told me it was going to rain, so I would have held off from weedeating, but no…..
same ol’ story, different day. when you’re a democrat loser, you always look for someone else to blame. no democrat ever takes responsibility for their own sorry actions. they will, however, happily take responsibility for the actions of others when there is a positive result, such as odumbo taking credit for Trumps revitalizing the american economy.
Yes, it is the political season as you well knew when you went on nightly TV and barked orders of the most deadly consequences in order perhaps to appear…eh…presidential…or at least Vice presidential?
Probably the postal vote
So, it appears you believe women should have the right to murder their unborn children. It’s always refreshing to hear the people who were given the gift of life to then go and extinguish the lives of others in the name of my body my choice. It’s truly shameful and highly disrespectful to commit an act of murder on the most innocent because you decided after having sex to condemn the innocent for your selfish mistake. All of which is 100% preventable if you had the will to say no. Why would the fact that you were fortunate enough to have a mother who decided to protect your right to be born, translate into you having unlimited power to take someone else’s life? This is the definition of pure hypocrisy. If you’re too stupid to understand this simple truth, then for you all hope is lost.
Oh i get it,Republicans don’t have abortions.😅
The dems are a forgiving lot when it comes to their own. Cuomo will go free. Just as Obama will go free for Treason. There is no crime terrible enough for them to find a dem politcal figure guilty! Eventually they will do away with enough of themselves through killings and abortions & maybe bring them to some sense of reality that they are losing their base due to their self made attrition. However they are not the brightest bulbs in the fixture, so who knows.
OrangeHelmet he is not a hero he is a cold blooded killer and he only cares about NYC not the state.
I get it. The intelligent ones have already moved out. What’s left is the drek.
They have GOT to be Democrats ! Who with any real intelligence, would consider Cuomo a “Hero”, when he was responsible for so many deaths ! Of course he blames it on Trump, like all the dumb Democrats do.
GoldBall NY’s aren’t stupid it is the nut jobs in NYC that support him. Please don’t blame us from upstate.
Shows how really stupid NY’s are.
Proving New York and Progressives are Mud Sharks for the Democrat Party.
a lot of NYC people i’ve spoken with think that cuomo is a hero and that he truly cares about their state (i’m not kidding)
What Cuomo did to the elderly people in the nursing homes is shocking, especially when it was completely unnecessary and avoidable. How do the people of New York let him get away with something like this?
I’ve heard it said that arrogance and ignorance is the worst combo. Cuomo has this in spades!
Perfectly said!
cuomo is the perfect democrat presidential candidate. he meets all the requirements.
Cuomo has effectively proven himself a gutless. clueless wonder. His ineptness at management is surpassed only by his boundless ego.
It’ll probably be the same type of interview that shifty said happened between trump and the Russians ( or in other words all in his head )
I have believed exactly that since February. This was all a plan, from the word “go,” to take down Trump and was a deal between the ChiComs and the top Democrats.
I believe you’re right. What was Pelosi doing right there, in that lab, in China late last year? Exactly what reason does someone in her position have the right to go there? Okay
How much are you willing to bet that key Democrats were in contact with the Communist Chinese before all of this went down and were acting on a plan the CCP hatched to try and ruin POTUS Trumps aspirations of reelection? I have a bad feeling this was more of a well tuned plan between the Democrat Party in America and the Communist Chinese. There are WAY too many factors that lead me to that conclusion. That WOULD be Criminal Collusion the MSM SHOULD be focusing on because look at what it did to us all.
His “Oh Well. Act of G-d bit didn’t work so now he’s going with Trump. Did he explain WHAT Trump said or did that caused him to think that putting sick people back in the LTC was a good Idea? Also this needs to be looked at cause apparently a bunch of other DEMOCRAT Governors did the same thing at about the same time. So who knows maybe something WAS said. Seems strange because by then we KNEW that the elderly were at risk. We saw what happened in Washington. Yes let’s have an investigation and you tell them how Trump made you do it. I want to see that interview.
Can’t make this up
LOL! Way to accept responsibility, Andy the Knuckle-Dragger! Now your even blaming Trump for your own decisions! LOL! Too much! Democrats…you can’t make it up…
Murderer 1
PRECISELY!!!! I am glad to know I am not the only one thinking that way.
Unless they were acting on China’s motives…
Hell no! Stretch his neck in public so all of us can watch him dance on a string.
but instead of prison, put him in a NY nursing home.