A special investigation, commissioned by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s administration, claims that health care workers, who cared for patients in adult care and nursing facilities, are to blame for hundreds of COVID-19 deaths and not the governor&#8217;s own policy forcing such facilities to accept coronavirus-positive patients.
&#8220;New York hospitals released more than 6,300 recovering coronavirus patients into nursing homes during the height of the pandemic under a controversial, now-scrapped policy,&#8221; <a href="https://apnews.com/b29d0a5eb51a5aed21d5efe132c33374?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=AP">The Associated Press reported late Monday</a>, quoting an official report from the governor&#8217;s office.
But the office says it&#8217;s not to blame for the hundreds of deaths that resulted when patients who were still contagious were shifted into nursing and adult care facilities. Instead, it said that those deaths were the fault of &#8220;more than 20,000 infected home staffers, many of whom kept going to work unaware they had the virus in March and April.&#8221;
“Facts matter. And those are the facts,” a New York health commissioner told media Monday.
The Cuomo administration has been desperate to shift the blame for what The Associated Press says is more than 2,000 coronavirus deaths that occurred in nursing homes after the governor&#8217;s office ordered nearly 6,500 recovering COVID-19 patients released into such care facilities.
Cuomo&#8217;s office was clear, under the policy, that adult care and nursing facilities were required to take the COVID-19 patients and those that refused would face state consequences. Although the orders also specified that coronavirus-positive individuals were to be separated from the general population, many facilities &#8212; and, in particular, facilities that cared for low-income and minority populations &#8212; did not have the resources to fully sequester recovering COVID-19 patients from others.
The New York governor&#8217;s office eventually rescinded the policy, but not before hundreds of elderly and compromised New York residents had died from coronavirus. Nearly half of all New York pandemic deaths were in adult and nursing care facilities.
Since rescinding the policy, Andrew Cuomo has relied on a number of excuses to explain away the deaths, from blaming President Donald Trump to shifting focus to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (both of whom said the &#8220;directive&#8221; to send coronavirus patients to nursing homes was not an official requirement), and now, the state is directly targeting those who cared for many of the sickest patients in their dying days.
&#8220;The 33-page review released Monday by the state Health Department instead blamed COVID-19-positive staff and visitors who unknowingly infected the vulnerable population of nursing home patients, at least more than 6,000 of whom died in numbers that are not yet complete,&#8221; <a href="https://buffalonews.com/news/cuomo-agency-report-cuomo-policy-not-to-blame-for-nursing-home-deaths/article_208e37ba-bfbd-11ea-bad2-e343863b6186.html">Buffalo News reported</a>.
&#8220;The state report says the number of residents dying at nursing homes peaked on April 8 — around the same time as COVID-19 deaths statewide, but nearly a week before the peak of COVID-19 patients from hospitals — a sequence of events the report casts as &#8216;suggesting the policy was not the cause,'&#8221; The Associated Press added.
The Cuomo administration&#8217;s report also suggests that many nursing homes that accepted coronavirus-positive patients already had suspected cases of the virus.
Nursing home administrators took umbrage at the governor&#8217;s suggestion that health care workers caused the outbreaks and, by extension, deaths among their own patients.
&#8220;The policy tied the hands of nursing home leaders who were afraid of residents becoming infected from new patients, or who wanted to require symptomatic patients be tested for COVID-19 so nursing homes could place them in the right unit,&#8221; one administrator told the AP.
Health care workers took care of their patients at &#8220;great physical and emotional cost, in many cases without adequate personal protective equipment and while being denied needed paid sick time,” one union head added.
Cuomo later backed his administration&#8217;s findings, saying that nursing home deaths from the virus were inevitable.
“You had this political conspiracy that the deaths in nursing homes were preventable,&#8221; he said.
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Senior man in wheelchair wearing protective mask to prevent coronavirus transmission on porch

Cuomo Administration’s Investigation Blames Health Care Workers For Nursing Home COVID Deaths, Not Governor’s Order

Andrew Cuomo

Coronavirus

Nursing homes

On Monday, during his daily coronavirus briefing, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who has been widely criticized for his initial policy regarding the coronavirus in which the state told nursing homes to accept residents back from the hospital even if they had the virus, which likely caused many more deaths than necessary, mocked President Trump, as the picture next to him showed a mask superimposed on Trump’s face as Cuomo intoned, “Put a mask on it.”
Cuomo stated, as a picture of Trump was shown next to him, “To start simply, the president can do two things: First: sign an executive order directing everyone to wear a mask. How we’re at this point as a nation and we still haven’t done the simple easy minimal step of saying you must wear a mask when you’re in public?  And the president doesn’t have to pass a piece of legislation, doesn’t have to call the Congress; just sign an executive order saying wear a mask. We did it two months ago in this state. The other states are just starting to do it now.&#8221;
He continued with an attack on other governors from other states, despite the fact that New York far outstrips those states in the sheer numbers of deaths from the virus, asserting, “States that were recalcitrant, governors who said, ‘We don’t need to do this,’ ‘Masks don’t work,’ all the political nonsense we heard; now they’re doing a 180, and you have the same states now wearing masks. Let the president have the same sense and do that as an executive order.”
At this point, the picture of Trump had a mask superimposed on his face, with the caption for the picture reading, “Put a mask on it!”
Cuomo continued, “And then let the president lead by example, and let the president put a mask on it. Because we know it works.”
The picture shifted to an image of the New York City skyline with the caption, “New York Tough” as Cuomo reiterated, “We’ve proven that it works in the state of New York, and the president can still be ‘New York Tough’ and ‘New York Smart’ and united and disciplined and loving.”
As <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desantis-cuomo-quarantine-florida-new-york-nursing-homes">Fox News</a> noted, over 6,200 elderly residents may have died from COVID-19 in New York nursing homes, according to <a href="https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/diseases/covid-19/fatalities_nursing_home_acf.pdf">state health department statistics</a>. On March 25, the New York Department of Health issued an advisory that stated nursing homes had to accept residents returning from hospitals whether or not they had a diagnosis of COVID-19. The <a href="https://skillednursingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/03/DOH_COVID19__NHAdmissionsReadmissions__032520_1585166684475_0.pdf">advisory</a> stated:
<blockquote>During this global health emergency, all NHs must comply with the expedited receipt of residents returning from hospitals to NHs. Residents are deemed appropriate for return to a NH upon a determination by the hospital physician or designee that the resident is medically stable for return.  Hospital discharge planners must confirm to the NH, by telephone, that the resident is medically stable for discharge. Comprehensive discharge instructions must be provided by the hospital prior to the transport of a resident to the NH.
No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19.NHs are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.</blockquote>
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/andrew-cuomo-finally-reverses-order-forcing-nursing-homes-to-take-covid-patients-demands-testing-for-care-workers">reported</a> on May 10 that a report from New York state authorities showed that &#8220;at least 4,813 residents with confirmed or presumed cases of COVID-19 have died at 351 of New York’s 613 nursing homes since March 1, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration’s new list,&#8221; according to <a href="https://time.com/5832141/new-york-nursing-home-death-toll/">Time Magazine</a>.
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Holds Briefing In Manhattan

WATCH: Andrew Cuomo Mocks Trump: ‘Put A Mask On It’

Donald Trump

Speaking on <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/974532?section=newsmax-tv&amp;keywords=louiegohmert-andrewcuomo-texas-deaths&amp;year=2020&amp;month=06&amp;date=28&amp;id=974532&amp;oref=voat.co">Newsmax’s &#8220;Saturday Report</a>,” Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX), ripped into the mainstream media that has been focusing on the spike in coronavirus cases in Texas and Florida, saying of the numbers in the last month, “If you look at the deaths, the precious lives that have been lost, New York deaths are up over 8,000 in that period; Texas is up a little over 700.” Gohmert followed with a swipe at New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, adding, “Every life is precious, but we don&#8217;t have a governor sending people with COVID to our nursing homes. We don&#8217;t have them killing and spreading the virus to people who are most vulnerable like Gov. Cuomo did.&#8221;
Responding to a Washington Post article titled, “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/25/fox-news-hannity-coronavirus-misinformation/">New research explores how conservative media misinformation may have intensified the severity of the pandemic</a>,” Gohmert told host Grant Stinchfield, “That’s what they do: They lie; they misrepresent, and they&#8217;ve taken their lead – well, I&#8217;m not sure if they&#8217;ve taken their lead from the Democrats or the Democrats took their lead from the media, but either way they work together and they misrepresent the facts.”
The article stated:
<blockquote>In recent weeks, three studies have focused on conservative media’s role in fostering confusion about the seriousness of the coronavirus. Taken together, they paint a picture of a media ecosystem that amplifies misinformation, entertains conspiracy theories and discourages audiences from taking concrete steps to protect themselves and others.</blockquote>
Gohmert answered those in the media focused on Texas and Florida: “And if you look at the ‘upticks,’ we don’t have a complete explanation for those things yet, other than, like in Texas, you look back at numbers May 26 to this morning and Texas is up about 75, 76, 77 thousand new cases.”
He continued, &#8220;We&#8217;re testing people like crazy here in Texas. But, Grant, if you look at the deaths, the precious lives that have been lost, New York deaths are up over 8,000 in that period; Texas is up a little over 700. Every life is precious, but we don&#8217;t have a governor sending people with COVID to our nursing homes. We don&#8217;t have them killing and spreading the virus to people who are most vulnerable like Gov. Cuomo did.&#8221;
Gohmert stated, “So the numbers are up of cases, but we’re testing more than we’ve ever tested, and that’s a good thing. At least that’s what Pelosi and Schumer and those folks say.”
He pointed out, &#8220;We know that we&#8217;re getting a big influx of the coronavirus coming across our borders. The Left, Pelosi and Schumer have to know that, so for those that didn&#8217;t really want to believe it, you have to start believe that the Democrats don&#8217;t care about people getting the coronavirus here in America. They want them to get it, because anything they can do, no matter what lie, what kind of malicious prosecution they&#8217;re involved in, they want to defeat Donald Trump … That&#8217;s all they can think about right now.”
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House Judiciary Committee Votes On Articles Of Impeachment

Texas Rep Louis Gohmert Targets NY’s Cuomo: ‘We Don’t Have A Governor Sending People With COVID To Our Nursing Homes’

Louie Gohmert

CNN host Chris Cuomo used his platform to defend his brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, as the executive faced scrutiny and criticism over his coronavirus response.
The New York governor has been a reoccurring guest on his brother’s cable news show throughout the pandemic, a spot criticized for violating traditional journalistic ethics of appearing impartial and objective.
“Me having you on the show is an unusual thing. We’ve never really done it, but this was an unusual time and there were unusual needs,” Chris Cuomo said in the last moments of a Wednesday interview.
The CNN host credited his brother for stepping up “in an unusual way that really was created by a vacuum of power on the federal level,” repeating criticisms of President Trump’s pandemic strategy of largely letting state governors determine the proper response for their states. Chris Cuomo also acknowledged his conflict of interest in interviewing his brother: “I won’t always be able to keep having you on the show. It will never be seen as fair in people’s eyes and we both get that and that’s okay.”
Before ending the interview, however, Chris Cuomo praised his brother for the governor’s performance over the past three months as New York remains the worst-hit state by the coronavirus in the U.S.
“I hope you are able to appreciate what you did in your state,” the host said. “I’m wowed by what you did and more importantly, I’m wowed by how you did it.”
“Obviously, I’ll never be objective. Obviously, I think you’re the best politician in the country, but I hope you feel good about what you did for your people, because I know they appreciate it,” he continued. “Nothing’s perfect, you’ll have your critics, but I’ve never seen anything like what you did and that’s why I’m so happy to have had you on the show, and I hope you know that.”
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Not objective but true,the facts tell the story.NY had &amp; has its struggles but they&#39;re doing way better than what we see elsewhere &amp; no way that happens without the Luv Guv dishing the real 24/7.He works with relentless intensity &amp; NY&#39;s better for it.And as a brother, I am proud. <a href="https://t.co/M1TrAtQwCo">pic.twitter.com/M1TrAtQwCo</a>
&mdash; Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisCuomo/status/1275969508222685185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Gov. Cuomo, along with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, oversaw a confused and delayed pandemic response that contributed significantly to the spread of the outbreak in New York City, according to investigations by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyt-calls-out-de-blasio-cuomo-for-coronavirus-failures-readers-thanks-for-finally-saying-something">The New York Times</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wsj-investigation-cuomo-de-blasio-pandemic-response-contributed-to-new-york-death-toll">The Wall Street Journal</a>.
Gov. Cuomo’s response also had a far-reaching impact for the rest of the nation, according to a May study on the virus’ spread throughout the United States. Yale School of Public Health epidemiologist Nathan Grubaugh <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-was-primary-gateway-for-virus-spread-in-us-researchers-find">said</a> New York was likely “the primary gateway” for the virus into and across the US, with choices made by state and local officials exacerbating the spread.
Arguably the most targeted criticism Cuomo has faced has been over his decision to send coronavirus-positive but recovering patients to nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. The governor barred nursing homes from turning away medically-stable patients who had been hospitalized with the coronavirus, without regard for whether they were contagious. The policy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-cuomos-emergency-orders-forced-4300-coronavirus-patients-into-nursing-homes">resulted</a> in thousands of people with Covid-19 being placed in nursing homes among some of the most vulnerable people.
The governor has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cuomo-again-tries-to-blame-federal-government-for-covid-nursing-home-crisis-white-house-not-so-fast">dismissed</a> taking responsibility for the high fatality rate from the disease among New York’s elderly population. He blamed President Trump for his state’s slow response because “the federal government missed the boat and never told us this virus was coming from Europe and not from China,” Cuomo told NSNBC on Tuesday.
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‘Best Politician In The Country’: Chris Cuomo Lauds Brother Amid Criticisms Over NY’s Pandemic Response

Chris Cuomo

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo again attempted to draw the federal government into a growing state-level crisis, blaming the Trump administration for both ordering nursing homes and other adult care facilities to take patients suffering from the novel coronavirus and for obscuring the virus&#8217; origins.
The White House was not having it, directing criticism back at Cuomo and his own state policies that failed to ensure coronavirus patients were entering facilities that were secure and where they would be cordoned off from patients who were COVID-19 negative.
Speaking to MSNBC Tuesday, Cuomo claimed that coronavirus-related nursing home deaths were highest in his state because New York suffered the most coronavirus deaths overall &#8212; but also because the Trump administration insisted on claiming that the virus originated in China when it was actually coming from Europe.
&#8220;Yes, we had more people die in nursing homes than anywhere else, because we had more people die,&#8221; Cuomo contended. &#8220;Because the federal government missed the boat and never told us this virus was coming from Europe and not from China.&#8221;
&#8220;And in January, in February, March, before they did the European travel ban, three million people came from Europe and brought the virus to New York, uh, and the federal government didn&#8217;t know, and the federal government didn&#8217;t, the CDC, and all of them failed to handle this pandemic and warn this nation,&#8221; Cuomo rattled on. &#8220;So New York had more cases, and more deaths, and more deaths in nursing homes because that&#8217;s who the virus affects, it affects senior citizens, we know that.&#8221;
Indeed, New York suffered from a unique strain of the virus that developed in Europe and migrated to the United States through international travelers, but that has little to do with Cuomo&#8217;s record of nursing home deaths which, <a href="https://apnews.com/5ebc0ad45b73a899efa81f098330204c">according to the Associated Press</a>, account for nearly 50% of all coronavirus-related deaths in New York &#8212; a staggering 4,500 deaths. Other counts put the number as high as 6,250.
Cuomo&#8217;s staff also tried to pin the blame on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which suggested COVID-positive patients could be housed in long-term and adult care facilities if those same facilities could properly quarantine those positive with the virus from the general population.
“I know history shows that if you don’t bend to the president’s will, you’ll get fired, but enough with the lies,” a Cuomo staffer <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/23/cuomo-alone-is-to-blame-for-covid-19-nursing-home-deaths/">said in a statement</a>.
The White House fired back, saying the CDC assumed states ordering overflow patients into adult care facilities would ensure those facilities followed quarantine procedures.
“Governor Cuomo alone is to Blame for refusing to shut down New York and forcing seniors who tested positive for Coronavirus back into his state’s nursing homes. His reckless response did not follow CMS and CDC guidelines devastating the senior population — and no amount of revisionist history can erase Governor Cuomo’s grossly incompetent decision or the fact that President Trump’s bold, aggressive actions saved millions of lives,” a deputy White House press secretary tweeted.
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Cuomo Again Tries To Blame Federal Government For COVID Nursing Home Crisis. White House: Not So Fast.

New York

Tearing down statues is all good &#8212; at least according to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Protesters from Black Lives Matter and other groups are marauding through cities in the wake of the death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police, and some are pulling down statues &#8212; it doesn&#8217;t matter which statues, just statues. Cuomo says that all &#8220;healthy.&#8221;
“It’s a healthy expression of people saying let’s get some priorities here and let’s remember the sin and mistake that this nation made and let’s not celebrate it,&#8221; the Democrats said Tuesday on MSNBC.
The attacks on monuments celebrating Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, and World War II veterans are also &#8220;good statements,&#8221; the governor said.
“People are making a statement about equality, about community, to be against racism, against slavery, I think those are good statements,” Cuomo said.
The governor&#8217;s comments came a day after the American Museum of Natural History announced that it&#8217;s moving its famed statue of Teddy Roosevelt inside the museum.
&#8220;The bronze statue of Theodore Roosevelt, on horseback and flanked by a Native American man and an African man, which has presided over the entrance to the American Museum of Natural History in New York since 1940, is coming down,&#8221; museum president Ellen Futter told The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/arts/design/roosevelt-statue-to-be-removed-from-museum-of-natural-history.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=tw-nytimes">New York Times</a>.
&#8220;Over the last few weeks, our museum community has been profoundly moved by the ever-widening movement for racial justice that has emerged after the killing of George Floyd,&#8221; Futter said. &#8220;We have watched as the attention of the world and the country has increasingly turned to statues as powerful and hurtful symbols of systemic racism.&#8221;
&#8220;Simply put,&#8221; said Futter, “the time has come to move it.&#8221;
The Times said the statue has &#8220;come to symbolize a painful legacy of colonial expansion and racial discrimination.&#8221;
Actor Ben Stiller offered an idea. He starred in all three of the &#8220;Night At The Museum&#8221; movies along with co-star Robin Williams, who portrayed Roosevelt in the films.
Stiller thinks maybe it&#8217;d be a good idea if the statue honoring the 26th president should be replaced with one of Williams, who committed suicide by hanging himself in 2014 after struggling with Lewy body dementia.
The 54-year-old actor wrote on Twitter: “How about replacing it with a statue of Robin Williams. He deserves one.”
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How about replacing it with a statue of Robin Williams. He deserves one.
&mdash; Ben Stiller (@RedHourBen) <a href="https://twitter.com/RedHourBen/status/1274827610778931203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Mayor Bill de Blasio agreed with the museum, calling it &#8220;the right decision and the right time to remove this problematic statue.&#8221;
“The statue has representations that clearly do not represent today’s values,” de Blasio said at a press conference Monday. “The statue clearly presents a white man as superior to people of color. And that’s just not acceptable in this day and age.”
&#8220;The American Museum of Natural History has asked to remove the Theodore Roosevelt statue because it explicitly depicts Black and Indigenous people as subjugated and racially inferior,&#8221; de Blasio said in a statement. &#8220;The City supports the Museum’s request.&#8221;
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Protests Continue Around Black Lives Matter Plaza In Washington, DC

Gov. Cuomo Says Protesters Tearing Down Statues Is ‘Healthy Expression’

Black Lives Matter

George Floyd

On Saturday, after a reporter informed Florida GOP governor Ron DeSantis that New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo was “considering a quarantine on travelers from Florida,” DeSantis fired back a withering response as he obliquely referred to the New York state order that possibly doomed many elderly residents to die from the coronavirus: “I think governors are going to do what they need to do. I would just ask them if that’s done, just please do not quarantine any Floridians in the nursing homes in New York.”
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Florida&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovRonDeSantis</a> taking a shot at <a href="https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYGovCuomo</a> during today&#39;s COVID briefing. Cuomo says he&#39;s mulling a quarantine on travelers from Florida (FL is already doing this to travelers from NY). Here was DeSantis&#39;s response: <a href="https://t.co/YhVqrIUV6r">pic.twitter.com/YhVqrIUV6r</a>
&mdash; Forrest Saunders (@FBSaunders) <a href="https://twitter.com/FBSaunders/status/1274439367013150720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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As <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desantis-cuomo-quarantine-florida-new-york-nursing-homes">Fox News</a> noted, over 6,200 elderly residents may have died from COVID-19 in New York nursing homes according to <a href="https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/diseases/covid-19/fatalities_nursing_home_acf.pdf">state health department statistics</a>. On March 25, the New York Department of Health issued an advisory that stated nursing homes had to accept residents returning from hospitals whether or not they had a diagnosis of COVID-19. The <a href="https://skillednursingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/03/DOH_COVID19__NHAdmissionsReadmissions__032520_1585166684475_0.pdf">advisory</a> stated:
<blockquote>During this global health emergency, all NHs must comply with the expedited receipt of residents returning from hospitals to NHs. Residents are deemed appropriate for return to a NH upon a determination by the hospital physician or designee that the resident is medically stable for return.  Hospital discharge planners must confirm to the NH, by telephone, that the resident is medically stable for discharge. Comprehensive discharge instructions must be provided by the hospital prior to the transport of a resident to the NH.
No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19.NHs are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.</blockquote>
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/andrew-cuomo-finally-reverses-order-forcing-nursing-homes-to-take-covid-patients-demands-testing-for-care-workers">reported</a> on May 10 that a report from New York state authorities showed that &#8220;at least 4,813 residents with confirmed or presumed cases of COVID-19 have died at 351 of New York’s 613 nursing homes since March 1, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration’s new list,&#8221; according to <a href="https://time.com/5832141/new-york-nursing-home-death-toll/">Time Magazine</a>.
Last Thursday, Cuomo <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cuomo-14-day-quarantine-people-visiting-new-york">said</a> of quarantining Floridians, “I have experts who have advised me to do that. I am considering it now in some ways … You want to talk about a full 180 for those people. Florida and other states imposed quarantine on New Yorkers. If you went to Florida, you had to quarantine for two weeks because they were afraid that New Yorkers were bringing the virus to their state. Fast forward 100 days now. We’re afraid they’re bringing the virus to our state … The tale of two cities, two countries. How come? How do you explain this? Who would believe this? 180 turn around.”
As of June 21, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html#states">The New York Times</a>, New York had reported almost 392,702 cases of coronavirus with 30,884 deaths; Florida had reported 97,283 cases with 3,160 deaths. That amounts to 7.9% of the cases reported in New York eventuating in death, while in Florida 3.2% of the cases resulted in death.
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Andrew Cuomo Considering Quarantining Floridians Visiting NY. Florida GOP Governor DeSantis Fires Back Blistering Response.

Ron DeSantis

Oh, the hypocrisy.
A week ago Monday, Rep. Val Demings, a Florida Democrat rising up in the Joe Biden veepstakes, attended a massive “Healing and Hope” rally, where thousands of maskless protesters were jammed in elbow to elbow. She told her Twitter followers she was there “to speak with our community as America grieves.”
But by Thursday, Demings changed her tune (perhaps signifying that she’s a perfect choice for Biden).
“The president’s plan to hold mass rallies in Florida and elsewhere as we experience a resurgence in COVID cases is irresponsible and selfish,” Demings said.
“Do as I say, not as I do,” is the Democratic mantra.
Demings wasn’t alone in flip-flopping. Other top Democrats cheered on “Black Lives Matter” crowds across the United States, with many attending rallies in honor of George Floyd, a black man who died while in the custody of Minneapolis police. But they were incensed that President Trump was planning campaign rallies.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, a socialist from Vermont, wrote a week ago Monday on Twitter: “Congratulations to all who are out on the streets today peacefully protesting. Together, we will end police brutality. Together, we will defeat Trump. Together, we will fight for a government based on justice and compassion, not greed and lies.”
But by Thursday, like Demings, Sanders was blasting Trump and the Republicans’ decision to hold its nominating convention in Florida — in late August.
“Trump wants 15,000 delegates cheering him at his GOP convention in Florida,” Sanders said. “No social distancing. His rejection of medical advice endangers not only those there but those they come in contact with. Trump’s a threat to the health and well-being of the country. He must be defeated.”
Demings, too, whined about Trump’s plans to travel to Florida. “Unfortunately, Florida is experiencing a new surge in COVID-19 cases. I urge you to do everything you can to protect yourself and your neighbors. Wear a mask. Limit gatherings,” she wrote.
The mainstream media, of course, got on board.
“‘Extraordinarily dangerous’: Trump rally draws grave concerns from top health officials,” said an NBC News headline Sunday. For its piece on protests in Brooklyn — which never once mentioned the pandemic — NBC wrote this headline: “Rally for Black trans lives draws packed crowd to Brooklyn Museum plaza.”
Radio host Rush Limbaugh called out the two-faced Democrats.
“So you see, it’s OK for BLM, Black Trans Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, whatever. It’s OK for liberal Democrats to congregate and sardine themselves everywhere. That’s so cool. That’s fine. Let Trump do a rally and, somehow, he’s going to be responsible for murder! He’s gonna be responsible for death, responsible for people getting sick,” Limbaugh said.
Other politicians have done just the same. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose disastrous policies likely killed thousands in his state, also applauded protesters as they smashed through New York City, looting stores and clashing with police trying to maintain order.
Cuomo said he “stands” with those defying stay-at-home orders to protest. But weeks before that, as millions across the state were losing their jobs, Cuomo told protesters demanding the state reopen: “You have no right to jeopardize my health … and my children’s health and your children’s health.”
On the West Coast, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti threatened in March to turn off utilities for any business that reopened, saying he wanted to punish “irresponsible and selfish” behavior. Then he turned around and supported the protests. “I will always protect Angelenos’ right to make their voices heard,” he said.
And Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser, who threatened to hit violators of stay-at-home orders with $5,000 fines or 90 days in jail, sang a different song when thousands of protesters rioted in the nation’s capital, defacing memorials and monuments and torching a historic church. “We are grieving hundreds of years of institutional racism,” she said.
It goes beyond Trump. New York City officials, frustrated that residents in Brooklyn kept taking their children to a city park, welded the gates shut this week. The city had repeatedly padlocked the gates to the playground, but residents broke through at least 25 times in just a few weeks. It didn’t take them long to do so again.
Cuomo also took aim at anyone who doesn’t stay locked down, possibly forever. “Lots of violations of social distancing, parties in the street, restaurants and bars ignoring laws,” he wrote on Twitter. “Bars or restaurants that violate the law can lose their liquor license.”
So thick is the hypocrisy you can cut it with a knife. Democrats applaud the race riots and looting — anything to hurt Trump’s re-election chances. But for people who are being crushed under draconian lockdown measures enacted by state and city governments, they have no patience, no understanding.
Oh the hypocrisy.
*Joseph Curl ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2014 and covered the White House for a dozen years. He can be reached at josephcurl@gmail.com and on Twitter at @JosephCurl. A version of this article ran previously in The Washington Times.
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CURL: Democrats Decry Lockdown Protests, Trump Rallies, But Are All In For Leftist Protests, Riots

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On Tuesday, a reporter for The Hill tweeted that President Trump will sit and talk with his son, Donald Trump Jr. on the online show “Triggered.” Jonathan Easley of The Hill phrased it this way: “Donald Trump Jr. will interview his father <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump">@realdonaldtrump</a>on Team Trump&#8217;s online show &#8216;Triggered&#8217; this week, per a source familiar. It&#8217;s the first time the president will appear on any of the campaign&#8217;s online shows. The interview will air Thursday night.”
Horrified by the idea of someone as partisan as Donald Trump Jr. “interviewing” his father, leftist social media expressed their loathing as they mocked the idea:
Supposed comedienne Samantha Bee: “Who among us hasn’t had to create a fake show just to get their dad to talk to them?”
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Who among us hasn’t had to create a fake show just to get their dad to talk to them? <a href="https://t.co/KGgyjQASJs">https://t.co/KGgyjQASJs</a>
&mdash; Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) <a href="https://twitter.com/FullFrontalSamB/status/1272939904419364870?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Editor/chief writer of Washington Post&#8217;s Fact Checker Glenn Kessler: “The questions are certain to be hard-hitting and tough.”
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the questions are certain to be hard-hitting and tough <a href="https://t.co/k29gSaYUnL">https://t.co/k29gSaYUnL</a>
&mdash; Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) <a href="https://twitter.com/GlennKesslerWP/status/1272914959845003267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Chris Cillizza of CNN: “This will be a doozy.”
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This will be a doozy <a href="https://t.co/armuDiw44C">https://t.co/armuDiw44C</a>
&mdash; Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) <a href="https://twitter.com/CillizzaCNN/status/1272872873045229569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Grant Smith of Reuters: “Interview.”
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&quot;interview&quot; <a href="https://t.co/5FqZCyGZll">https://t.co/5FqZCyGZll</a>
&mdash; Grant Smith (@grantmeaccess) <a href="https://twitter.com/grantmeaccess/status/1272918690196008961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Trump Jr. replied to the barrage of criticism by noting that it was not an “interview” at all, tweeting, “Guys, unlike CNN and Chris Cuomo when he interviews his brother, I’m not pretending to be a journalist here. This is just me having a fun conversation with my dad. Tune in on Thursday night, it will be a good one.&#8221; He joked, &#8220;I may or may not ask @realDonaldTrump about aliens.”
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Guys, unlike CNN and Chris Cuomo when he interviews his brother, I&#39;m not pretending to be a journalist here. This is just me having a fun conversation with my dad. Tune in on Thursday night, it will be a good one. 
I may or may not ask <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> about aliens. 👽😂 <a href="https://t.co/aOlm3D5vsu">https://t.co/aOlm3D5vsu</a>
&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1272887116591177728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Chris Cuomo’s repeated “interviews” of his brother Andrew, the Governor of New York, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mccain-wrecks-cuomo-brothers-yucking-it-up-on-cnn-my-friends-are-out-of-work-and-lost-parents-at-nyc-nursing-homes-this-is-hilarious-guys">featured moments</a> such as Chris Cuomo brandishing an oversized fake cotton swab to joke about the size of his brother’s nose. Media Research Council’s Nicholas Fondacaro commented, “Instead of asking his brother, @NYGovCuomo, why he decided to pack COVID patients into nursing homes, killing untold amounts of people, @ChrisCuomo pulled out oversized, prop cotton swabs to mock how big his brother&#8217;s nose was. This is the state of &#8216;journalism&#8217; on @CNN. Pathetic!&#8221;
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Instead of asking his brother, <a href="https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYGovCuomo</a> why he decided to pack COVID patients into nursing homes, killing untold amounts of people, <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisCuomo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ChrisCuomo</a> pulled out oversized, prop cotton swabs to mock how big his brother&#39;s nose was. This is the state of &quot;journalism&quot; on <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a>. Pathetic! <a href="https://t.co/undeQMyVeN">pic.twitter.com/undeQMyVeN</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1263279839433371648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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That particular segment greatly angered Meghan McCain of ABC’s “The View,” who noted that the Cuomo brothers were yucking it up while tens of millions of Americans had lost their jobs and thousands of elderly people had died in New York nursing homes from the coronavirus, the latter possibly due to Andrew Cuomo’s policy (later rescinded) of forcing nursing home and other long-term care facilities to take in COVID-19-positive patients.
McCain, who was pregnant, tweeted, &#8220;I’m not sure I’m going to ever be able to buy a crib or baby clothes for my first child in a store. Most of my friends are jobless, petrified and dealing w depression &amp; @JaniceDean lost both her mother and father in law to covid within a week of each other. This is HILARIOUS guys.”
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I’m not sure I’m going to ever be able to buy a crib or baby clothes for my first child in a store, Most of my friends are jobless, petrified and dealing w depression &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JaniceDean</a> lost both her mother and father in law to covid within a week of each other. This is HILARIOUS guys <a href="https://t.co/f0A5XcQauk">https://t.co/f0A5XcQauk</a>
&mdash; Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1263424655416799236?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Dean added succinctly, “They’re both a joke.”
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They’re both a joke.
&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1263428479279923200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Left Mocks Trump Jr. ‘Interview’ With His Dad. Trump Jr.: It’s Not An Interview, Unlike That CNN Anchor And His Brother.

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo warned Monday that he may be forced to declare a second lockdown after New York residents ventured out to bars and restaurants over the weekend in Manhattan and the Hamptons, even though Cuomo&#8217;s government largely ignored a massive protest that took place in Brooklyn.
Cuomo threatened New Yorkers with a second lockdown in a press conference, The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/world/coronavirus-live-updates.html">New York Times reports</a>, after, Cuomo said, the state was &#8220;deluged&#8221; with more than 25,000 complaints of people flouting social distancing regulations and crowding in businesses.
&#8220;Specifically, Mr. Cuomo said that bar patrons in Manhattan and in the Hamptons had been flouting the rules,&#8221; the NYT says. &#8220;He warned that if local officials did not crack down on such behavior, the state could be forced to suspend the reopening plan.&#8221;
“I am warning today, in a nice way, of the consequences of your actions,&#8221; Cuomo said, referring to bars and restaurants. “We are not kidding around with this. You are talking about jeopardizing people’s lives.”
State officials tried to water down Cuomo&#8217;s comments later Monday after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio pushed back on the possibility of another coronavirus-related lockdown and amid news that New York saw fewer new coronavirus deaths over the weekend than it had since March. Only 23 people succumbed to the novel coronavirus Sunday, down from a peak of nearly 800 the first week of April.
The same officials also said that law enforcement officers were working diligently over the weekend to break up large groups and enforce social distancing, though it&#8217;s not clear how either the state or city set its enforcement priorities. While bar patrons crowded together in the Hamptons, earning Cuomo&#8217;s ire, and Jewish schoolchildren took advantage of summer weather to play in city parks, <a href="https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1270336686883389441">earning the city&#8217;s attention</a>, thousands upon thousands of marchers took the streets in Brooklyn, in a &#8220;Black Trans Lives Matter&#8221; protest that was not forced to meet social distancing or masking guidelines.
&#8220;Thousands of protesters — all dressed in white — gathered in Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon to rally in support of the black transgender population,&#8221; <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/14/protesters-dress-in-white-for-black-trans-lives-rally-in-brooklyn/">the New York Post reported</a>. &#8220;An enormous sea of people packed outside the Brooklyn Museum for the massive demonstration, according to footage posted to social media by <a href="https://twitter.com/JibreelJalloh/status/1272264465766068224?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@JibreelJalloh</a>.&#8221;
The footage shows people crowded together in front of the Brooklyn Museum and standing shoulder-to-shoulder on public streets.
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From the steps of the Brooklyn museum: everyone who’s showed up for Black trans lives today <a href="https://t.co/htqjF5tWtn">pic.twitter.com/htqjF5tWtn</a>
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The protest was, of course, peaceful.
New York has been holding fast to a number of social distancing regulations, even issuing new bans as recently as last week, including a <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/12/new-york-bans-summer-sleepaway-camps-to-contain-coronavirus/">ban on summer sleepaway camps</a>, despite the risk of transmitting the coronavirus in an environment of mostly children remains low. New York City remains in &#8220;Phase 1&#8221; of the state&#8217;s reopening plan, but other parts of the state are expected to enter &#8220;Phase 3,&#8221; where groups of up to 50 individuals are allowed to gather, as early as Wednesday.
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Cuomo Warns New Yorkers Of Second Lockdown Over Restaurants, Bars, Ignores Massive Brooklyn Protest

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The government response to the coronavirus led by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio reportedly contributed to the city and state becoming the hardest-hit areas in the U.S.
A <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-new-yorks-coronavirus-response-made-the-pandemic-worse-11591908426">Wall Street Journal</a> investigation and review of Cuomo and de Blasio’s policies, decisions, and statements in the days and weeks leading up to the pandemic and after the state locked down to slow the virus’ spread said the men&#8217;s actions likely contributed to the state’s high case number and death toll.
The Wall Street Journal listed a number of shortfalls its investigation revealed through interviews with healthcare professionals on the front lines of the crisis and by comparing the state and city’s response to other governors and mayors. The Journal&#8217;s investigation found:
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<li>Improper patient transfers. Some patients were too sick to have been transferred between hospitals. Squabbling between the Cuomo and de Blasio administrations contributed to an uncoordinated effort.</li>
<li>Insufficient isolation protocols. Hospitals often mixed infected patients with the uninfected early on, and the virus spread to non-Covid-19 units.</li>
<li>Inadequate staff planning. Hospitals added hundreds of intensive-care beds but not always enough trained staff, leading to improper treatments and overlooked patients dying alone.</li>
<li>Mixed messages. State, city government and hospital officials kept shifting guidelines about when exposed and ill front-line workers should return to work.</li>
<li>Overreliance on government sources for key equipment. Hospitals turned to the state and federal government for hundreds of ventilators, but many were faulty or inadequate.</li>
<li>Procurement-planning gaps. While leaders focused attention on procuring ventilators, hospitals didn’t always provide for adequate supplies of critical resources including oxygen, vital-signs monitors and dialysis machines.</li>
<li>Incomplete staff-protection policies. Many hospitals provided staff with insufficient protective equipment and testing.</li>
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Arguably the largest debacle of Cuomo’s pandemic response were his policies <a href="https://dw-site-staging.dailywire.com/news/cuomo-snaps-when-pressed-on-nursing-home-death-scandal-nobody-can-be-prosecuted-for-it">governing</a> long-term care facilities. For nearly two months, nursing homes were forced to take recovering coronavirus patients from hospitals that had not yet tested negative for the virus. The policy likely exacerbated the spread of the virus among New York’s most vulnerable population, according to experts.
Cuomo eventually rescinded the policy on May 10 but has continued to deny that he shoulders any share of the blame for the Covid-19 death toll in his state’s nursing facilities.
“What is justice? Who can we prosecute for those deaths? Nobody,” Cuomo said during a May 17 press conference. “Nobody. Mother nature. God. Where did this virus come from? People are going to die by this virus. That is the truth. Best hospital system on the globe, I believe we have. Best doctors, best nurses who have responded like heroes, every medication, ventilators, the health system wants for nothing. We worked it out so we always had available beds. Nobody was deprived of a bed or medical coverage in any way.”
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WSJ Investigation: Cuomo, De Blasio Pandemic Response Contributed To New York Death Toll

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Following a viral <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-details-emerge-on-viral-video-of-white-karen-calling-cops-on-black-man-who-asked-her-to-leash-her-dog">Central Park incident</a>, Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is pushing for a new law that would make it a hate crime, punishable by up to five years of prison time, to phone in a 911 call &#8220;based on race&#8221; that turns out to be &#8220;false&#8221; or unnecessary.
“We’ve seen 911 calls which are race-based, false calls. A false 911 call based on race should be classified as a hate crime in the state of New York,” Cuomo said at press briefing on Friday, according to <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/05/cuomo-wants-to-pass-amy-cooper-911-false-accusation-bill/">The New York Post</a>.
The <a href="https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/a8070/amendment/b">legislation</a>, first introduced by Democratic Assemblyman Felix Ortiz of Brooklyn, would also include &#8220;false&#8221; 911 calls based on gender and religion.
&#8220;[V]iolators could face between one and five years in prison, in accordance with the state’s hate crime statute &#8216;if the motivation for reporting such crime is motivated by a perception or belief about their race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, religion, religious practice, age, disability or sexual orientation,'&#8221; Assemblyman Ortiz told the Post.
“The bottom line is: We should be using better judgment,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Racism gets created, and I think that by making false reporting because of gender or religion is completely unacceptable and intolerable.&#8221;
The bill received a new push from Cuomo this month in light of a racially charged Central Park incident caught on viral video.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-details-emerge-on-viral-video-of-white-karen-calling-cops-on-black-man-who-asked-her-to-leash-her-dog">The Daily Wire</a> reported on the video and its consequences: &#8220;A viral &#8216;Karen&#8217; video of a white woman calling the police after an African-American man asked her to leash her dog in Central Park Monday morning has resulted in the woman being placed on administrative leave, a public apology, and more details emerging about what led up to the racially charged phone call, including what the woman interpreted as a threat, and its fallout.&#8221;
&#8220;The viral video was taken by Christian Cooper, the African-American bird-watching enthusiast who asked the woman, Amy Cooper (no relation), to leash her dog according to park rules,&#8221; the report continued. &#8220;In the video, Amy, who grows increasingly more panicked over the course of its filming, first warns Christian that she is going to call the police to tell them that &#8216;there’s an African-American man threatening my life.&#8217; She then calls the police and says, &#8216;There is an African-American man. I am in Central Park. He is recording me and threatening myself and my dog.'&#8221;
After the viral moment, Amy was canned from her job and subsequently told NBC New York that she called authorities because she feared Christian was going to try to poison her dog.
Christian&#8217;s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/christian.cooper1">Facebook post</a> on the incident provides a transcript of their conversation, which offers more context for why Amy believed he was threatening her. “Look, if you’re going to do what you want, I’m going to do what I want, but you’re not going to like it,” Christian said, before calling for her dog to come to him and pulling a dog treat out of his pocket. 
The <a href="https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/a8070/amendment/b">bill</a> is expected to be passed by the State Senate this week.
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Cuomo-Pushed Legislation: You‘ll Be Charged With Hate Crime, Face Prison Time If Your 911 Call Is ‘Based On Race,’ Unnecessary

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New York City mayor Bill de Blasio fired back at New York Governor Andrew Cuomo late Tuesday, slamming the governor for insulting the New York Police Department and undermining the work of officers trying to control the riots and destruction which have swept the city since the weekend.
Speaking to talk radio, de Blasio trashed Cuomo, who, earlier on Tuesday, called the mayor a &#8220;disgrace&#8221; and threatened to &#8220;displace&#8221; de Blasio if the mayor did not call in the National Guard to help quell unrest. In his press conference, Cuomo even took aim at the police, saying that the &#8220;NYPD and the mayor did not do their job last night, I believe that.&#8221;
“He dishonored the men and women of the NYPD in an absolutely inappropriate way for any leader to do,” de Blasio told 1010 WINS. “Any elected official who blames the NYPD while they were out there fighting in the streets to restore order, protect people – that’s disgraceful.”
On a tear, the mayor added that Cuomo “owes an apology to 36,000 hardworking men and women who have been putting their lives on the line for all of us.”
The NYPD, though, blasted both Cuomo and de Blasio, calling the pair&#8217;s feud a distraction from the task at hand: getting the city under control.
“Rank-and-file New York City police officers were out on the street last night doing our job. Tonight, we’ll go out and do it again,” NYC Police Benevolent Association (PBA) President Patrick Lynch told reporters Tuesday, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nypd-union-feud-cuomo-de-blasio">according to Fox News</a>. “It’s not our fault that our city and state governments can’t plan and work together, but we are suffering the consequences.”
“Police officers are being run down, knocked down and almost shot on a nightly basis. The political tug of war between Albany and City Hall needs to stop because it is putting police officers in danger,” Lynch added.
De Blasio isn&#8217;t a favorite of the NYPD, Fox News added.
&#8220;Police groups have also been infuriated with [de Blasio&#8217;s] criticism of the men and women on the front line, particularly his demand that a cop seen in the video drawing his weapon near protesters should have his shield and gun taken from him,&#8221; the outlet reported. &#8220;Longer video put out by the NYC PBA showed that moments earlier, the officer’s superior was attacked with a brick.&#8221;
De Blasio finally appeared to take some control on Tuesday night, issuing a strict curfew, which will continue in the city through Sunday to prevent the kind of destructive violence that plagued the city over the weekend and into Monday, leaving hundreds of businesses smashed, including Macy&#8217;s iconic flagship store in Herald Square.
Looters, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/de-blasio-cuomo-nypd-feud-riots">Fox News says</a>, still broke into a number of businesses in the city Tuesday &#8220;but reports indicated that the scene was much calmer than the past few nights.&#8221;
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De Blasio Demands Cuomo Apologize To NYPD, Police Union Blasts Both For Feud

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo trashed New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in a series of public comments Tuesday, calling de Blasio&#8217;s handling of NYC riots a &#8220;disgrace,&#8221; claiming de Blasio refused to authorize the use of the National Guard to quell unrest, and suggesting he could &#8220;displace&#8221; the mayor &#8212; though he&#8217;s not ready to do that just yet.
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/cuomo-de-blasio-riot">Fox News reports</a> that Cuomo blasted de Blasio first at a press conference, calling both de Blasio&#8217;s and the New York Police Department&#8217;s performance over the weekend and on Monday night a &#8220;disgrace,&#8221; and calling attention to high-profile incidents of looting, including of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/iconic-macys-store-ransacked-despite-companys-attempts-to-appeal-to-rioters">Macy&#8217;s iconic flagship store in Herald Square</a>.
You have 38,000 NYPD people, it is the largest police department in the United States of America,&#8221; Cuomo railed. &#8220;Use 38,000 people and protect property. Use the police, protect property, and people. Look at the videos, it was a disgrace.&#8221;
“The NYPD and the Mayor did not do their job last night,&#8221; Cuomo stated flatly.
Roving gangs of looters &#8220;stormed Midtown Manhattan for a second night in a row Monday, brazenly bashing through the windows of high-end stores and making off with stolen goods as police attempted to control the chaos,&#8221; according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/01/nyc-looters-clash-with-protesters-as-another-night-of-chaos-erupts/">New York Post</a>, which covered the riots in real-time. Many of the rioters &#8220;clashed with protesters,&#8221; they noted, who tried, unsuccessfully, to &#8220;stop the looting and destruction.&#8221;
&#8220;In advance of an 11 p.m. curfew, looters breached a Best Buy, Nike Flatiron, Aldo, Microsoft, Michael Kors and the Nintendo store in Rockefeller Center,&#8221; the Post reported.
President Donald Trump complained on Twitter that the Cuomo brothers had a &#8220;bad day&#8221; and that NYC was left to the looters.
&#8220;Yesterday was a bad day for the Cuomo Brothers,&#8221; Trump tweeted. &#8220;New York was lost to the looters, thugs, Radical Left, and all other forms of Lowlife &amp; Scum. The Governor refuses to accept my offer of a dominating National Guard. NYC was ripped to pieces. Likewise, Fredo’s ratings are down 50%!&#8221;
Cuomo was adamant that he was not the problem. In <a href="https://twitter.com/joshdcaplan/status/1267845794838786048">later statements</a>, he claimed that de Blasio refused the use of the National Guard to stop the looting and that he, Cuomo, reserved the right to &#8220;displace&#8221; the mayor and call in the Guard himself.
His &#8220;option is to displace the mayor &#8230; bring in the National Guard,&#8221; Cuomo said, before quickly noting that, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re at that point.&#8221;
&#8220;That would be such a chaotic situation in the midst of an already chaotic situation. I don’t think that makes any sense,&#8221; Cuomo added.
De Blasio defended himself at his own press conference, announcing a curfew beginning at 8 pm and lasting until 5 am and promising additional police resources on the street.
&#8220;We are going to ensure there are additional NYPD resources where they are needed,” the mayor said Tuesday. “We are going to work actively and strategically to stop any disorder, but again community leaders need to be a part of this effort.”
He adamantly refused to call in the National Guard, however.
“We do not need, nor do we think it is wise for the National Guard to be in New York City. Nor any armed forces,” he said. “When outside armed forces go into communities no good comes of it.”
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New York WAR: Cuomo Trashes De Blasio, Calls NYC Mayor A ‘Disgrace,’ Claims He Could ‘Displace’ De Blasio Over Riots

America does not like &#8220;The Chris &amp; Andy Show.&#8221;
CNN host Chris Cuomo has been laughing it up for the last few weeks with brother Andrew Cuomo, who is the Governor of New York. But the CNN host&#8217;s ratings have been falling since he began the near-daily yuck fests.
His ratings have plunged 49% in the two months since he began bringing on his brother, data from Nielsen Media Research shows, according to The <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8370587/CNN-host-Chris-Cuomos-viewership-plunged-HALF-contracted-coronavirus.html">Daily Mail</a>.
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Since the week of March 30, Cuomo has dropped from first in his 9 p.m. time slot among cable news hosts to bottom of the barrel, last week averaging just 440,000 daily viewers in the age demographic prized by advertisers. Cuomo&#8217;s stunning ratings nosedive came after interviews with his brother, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, in lighthearted segments that were widely panned as ratings stunts amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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While ratings for several news networks also fell amid coronavirus exhaustion, Cuomo&#8217;s have dropped far more than other shows after “frequently silly and un-substantive interviews” with his older brother, said The Mail.
In The Cuomo Bros. Show, Chris teased Andrew about the size of his nose after the governor underwent a test for COVID-19.
“Is it true that this was the swab that the nurse was actually using on you, and at first it disappeared?” Chris said, holding up a giant swab. “Is it true you inhaled and the nurse’s finger went all the way up your nose and got stuck and had to be released with a tool?” Chris asked.
The two also debated whether Andrew is the most “eligible” bachelor in the country.
“Do you think you are an attractive person now because you’re single and ready to mingle?” Chris said. “Do you really think you are some desirable single person, and this is not just people’s pain coming out of them?”
Andrew, meanwhile, mocked Chris after the CNN host contracted COVID-19. “Nothing about me has changed,” Andrew said. “I haven’t been in my basement [in quarantine], I haven’t had my wife shear my hair out of resentment. None of that has happened to me. I’m just doing my job.”
But for all the witless banter, Chris has never asked Andrew about the staggering death toll in New York&#8217;s nursing homes, which has killed more than 5,800 elderly and vulnerable residents.
New York state has seen more nursing home deaths from the coronavirus than any other state. Why? The governor enacted a state directive that required nursing homes to take in any and all coronavirus patients, which then swept through the most vulnerable population.
“Journalism that truly aims to restore trust in media would hold Andrew Cuomo to account for these missteps,” David A. Graham wrote in <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/cnns-cuomo-no-no/612103/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the Atlantic</a> last week. “The problem comes when the efforts to juice ratings start to get in the way of accurate journalism that holds officials accountable.”
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CNN Host Chris Cuomo’s Ratings Plunge After Brother’s Frequent Goofy Appearances

Is it important to have racial or sexual diversity in our fight against the COVID-19 pandemic? Heather Mac Donald suggests that some think it might be in her City Journal article &#8220;Should Identity Politics Dictate Vaccine Research?&#8221;
The funding priorities of the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control suggests that they think diversity is an important input in making headway in the fight against the coronavirus. On April 20, NIH and CDC announced the availability of grants to increase the &#8220;diversity&#8221; of biomedical research labs. For example, academic virology researchers studying respiratory failure could receive hundreds of thousands more taxpayer dollars if they could find a woman or a minority to add to their project. High school students and college students are eligible for the program even though they cannot contribute anything of value. No scientific justification for the new diversity hire is needed. The scientists must promise to mentor the new hire, which will take time away from their research with no offsetting gain.
Mac Donald has written another article on academic insanity &#8220;The Therapeutic Campus&#8221; bearing the subtitle: &#8220;Why are college students seeking mental-health services in record numbers?&#8221; Many colleges have created safe spaces where students can be sheltered from reality and not have their feelings hurt by others exercising their free speech rights. Yale University has created a safe space that would be the envy of most other universities. They have named it the Good Life Center. Mac Donald says it has &#8220;a sandbox, essential oils, massage, and mental-health workshops,&#8221; and that &#8220;the center unites the most powerful forces in higher education today: the feminization of the university, therapeutic culture, identity politics, and the vast student-services bureaucracy.&#8221;
George Mason University has a Center for the Advancement of Well-Being, headed by a chief well-being officer. At George Mason, well-being refers to social justice and &#8220;building a life of vitality, purpose, resilience, and engagement,&#8221; the Center&#8217;s chief well-being officer told The Chronicle of Higher Education. By the way, a George Mason University student can minor in well-being as a part of his college education.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, in justifying his draconian coronavirus measures, said during a press conference: &#8220;This is about saving lives. If everything we do saves just one life, I&#8217;ll be happy.&#8221;
Cuomo knows that many Americans buy into such a seemingly caring statement that would be easily revealed as utter nonsense if one had just a modicum of economic knowledge. If one looked at only the benefits of an action, he would do anything because everything has a benefit. Prudent decision-making requires one to compare benefits to costs. For example, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that in 2019 36,120 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes. Virtually all those lives could have been saved with a mandated 5 mph speed limit. Those saved lives are the benefit. Fortunately, when we consider the costs and inconvenience of setting a 5 mph speed limit, we rightly conclude that saving those 36,120 lives isn&#8217;t worth it.
There are other news tidbits about politicians drunk with power that we Americans have given them. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot told city residents who disobeyed her stay-at-home order: &#8220;We will arrest you and we will take you to jail. Period. We&#8217;re not playing games.&#8221; Meanwhile, in violation of her own stay-at-home order, Lightfoot slipped out and got her hair done. She explained her decision, &#8220;I take my personal hygiene very seriously.&#8221;
Ventura County, California, health director Dr. Robert Levin said that his department would forcibly remove COVID-19 infected people from their own homes and put them &#8220;into other kinds of housing that we have available.&#8221; Facing stiff criticism, Levin later explained: &#8220;I either misspoke or it was misinterpreted. I&#8217;ll take the blame of having misspoke.&#8221;
The biggest casualty from the COVID-19 pandemic has nothing to do with the disease. It&#8217;s the power we&#8217;ve given to politicians and bureaucrats. The question is how we recover our freedoms.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

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Safe Spaces

The following is satirical.
New York has unveiled its new re-opening plan called “Transitioning into Some Vague Semblance of Competence.”
Although the plan is intended to echo Donald Trump’s theme of Transitioning into Greatness, New York officials will not be looking to restore the economy or bring New Yorkers’ lives back to normal, but will instead simply aim to stop slaughtering people’s grandparents in large numbers while saying indefensibly stupid stuff they have to retract hours later.
Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that the “Transitioning into Some Vague Semblance of Competence” plan will be launched at a large gathering of nursing home residents and Chinese virus sufferers in the hopes that a show of togetherness will ease any hard feelings about that time he forced nursing homes to take the virus sufferers in, thus causing the deaths of thousands.
After the launch party and the resulting funerals, New York will have a grand reopening of the subway system, heralded by make-believe music on invisible guitars played by homeless schizophrenics moving from car to car asking passengers for money as the passengers, packed tightly together in the narrow space, try to edge away from the beggars without actually having sex with the person next to them.
Restaurants will also be reopened, although each diner will have to sit a minimum of three blocks away from their companion, unless it’s their spouse, then it’s four blocks. To facilitate that, restaurants will be allowed to set up tables in the middle of the larger boulevards, although customers will have to clean up after themselves if they should be hit by a bus.
In a speech made to the mountain of corpses he keeps seeing in his dreams for some reason, Cuomo said, “It’s not enough for New York City to be merely intolerable, we must show the world what the greatest city on earth looks like when it’s been misgoverned into the ground.”
Cuomo said that for himself, he would continue to wear a mask, lest he be recognized and brought to justice.
More satire from Andrew Klavan: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-fear-a-good-economy-will-hurt-their-chances-of-winning-the-election-and-destroying-the-economy-satire">Democrats Fear A Good Economy Will Hurt Their Chances Of Winning The Election And Destroying The Economy</a>
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New York Announces Reopening Plan Called ‘Transitioning Into Some Vague Semblance Of Competence’ [Satire]

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New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo continued to deflect blame on Wednesday from the nursing home <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/elise-stefanik-invites-feds-to-investigate-cuomos-failed-nursing-home-policy">scandal</a> he is facing after he issued an order, which his administration has since <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/cuomo-coronavirus-order-forcing-nursing-homes-to-take-covid-19-patients-scrubbed-from-new-york-state-website/">deleted</a>, requiring nursing homes to take COVID-19 patients. Cuomo&#8217;s state ended up having the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/09/us/coronavirus-cases-nursing-homes-us.html">most</a> COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes of any state.
During Cuomo&#8217;s press conference Wednesday, a reporter from the New York Post pointed out that the governor had suggested that President Trump was to blame for the state&#8217;s tragic handling of nursing homes and asked if the governor had brought up the issue when he met with Trump earlier in the day.
&#8220;Last week you blamed the 5,000 nursing home deaths in your… President Trump and the CDC guidelines. I’m wondering if you raise that issue with him today?&#8221; the reporter asked.
&#8220;No, but I never did that. I never did that,&#8221; Cuomo insisted.
&#8220;You said that anyone asking about nursing deaths in New York and the State’s policy should ask President Trump,&#8221; the reporter responded.
After saying that he was trying to make the point that criticism directed at him for the state&#8217;s nursing home disaster is unfair because he &#8220;took the same position, which is guidance from the CDC and our State Department of Health,&#8221; on how to handle COVID-19-positive patients regarding nursing homes, Cuomo suggested that his state has actually done well on the issue.
&#8220;In general, you look at how New York did, we’re in Washington, you look how New York did on nursing homes vis-a-vis the nation, we did better than 33 States in the nation, per capita on nursing homes,&#8221; said Cuomo.
Cuomo then took a shot at the Post for pressing him on the issue, accusing them of being &#8220;pro-Donald Trump&#8221; and wanting to &#8220;kill all Democrats.&#8221;
&#8220;There are columnists who made this point at the Post, who are 100% supportive of Donald Trump, and that’s fine, but then believe we have to kill all Democrats,&#8221; Cuomo claimed. &#8220;So I get it. I understand it. They’re open in their support of the Trump administration. And I guess their attitude is to be pro-Donald Trump you have to be anti-Democrat, which I don’t really understand. Be pro-Donald Trump.&#8221;
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<blockquote>NEW YORK POST REPORTER: Hi, Governor. New York Post. Last week you blamed the 5,000 nursing home deaths in your… President Trump and the CDC guidelines. I’m wondering if you raise that issue with him today?
NEW YORK DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO: No, but I never did that. I never did that.
NYP REPORTER: You said that anyone asking about nursing deaths in New York and the State’s policy should ask President Trump.
CUOMO: No, what I said was this. Yes. I said, “They want to play politics with this, right?” There are Republicans who are trying to make political hay out of this, in my opinion. What I said to the Republicans who were making this accusation, “You have to find an accusation for it to work politically that you can make against the Democrat that is not a boomerang and comes back and affects the Republicans.” On the nursing homes, the issue they raised, our State Department of Health followed the same guideline as the CDC, which is a federal agency issued.
So it was my way of saying, thwarting the political attack, because you can’t say, “Oh, bad Democrat.” It’s an issue that a Republican administration took the same position, which is guidance from the CDC and our State Department of Health. Both of them said, “You can’t discriminate against a patient based on COVID.” That’s what they both said. But that was just on that specific.
In general, you look at how New York did, we’re in Washington, you look how New York did on nursing homes vis-a-vis the nation, we did better than 33 States in the nation, per capita on nursing homes. Nursing homes happened to be the place where this virus ravages, despite the fact that we had the greatest number of cases and we were in the eye of the storm. You look at us vis-a-vis the country, where we did better than 33 other states, then those are just facts. But I never blamed him for anything. I was just saying to the Republicans, “That’s not a political attack when the Republican administration had the guidance that did the same thing.” Yes, that factually correct?
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Yeah. And the context for what I said was I said it to a Post reporter because look, I can say all I want, stay away from politics. We’re in an election year, and politics is in the air. There are columnists who made this point at the Post, who are 100% supportive of Donald Trump, and that’s fine, but then believe we have to kill all Democrats. So I get it. I understand it. They’re open in their support of the Trump administration. And I guess their attitude is to be pro-Donald Trump you have to be anti-Democrat, which I don’t really understand. Be pro-Donald Trump.</blockquote>
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WATCH: Gov. Cuomo Called Out On Blaming Trump For Nursing Home Scandal, Says NY Did Better Than Majority Of States

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been under fire for a decision to shielding nursing home executives from legal liability in coronavirus cases, and now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/26/andrew-cuomo-nursing-home-execs-immunity">a report in the Guardian</a> seems to connect Cuomo&#8217;s surprise budget provision to a large campaign donation from a hospital system lobby group.
Cuomo&#8217;s administration is still struggling to explain why officials decided to order nursing homes and other adult care facilities to accept recovering COVID-19 patients, many of whom were still positive for the virus, causing major outbreaks in a number of area nursing homes &#8212; outbreaks that led to, perhaps, more than 5,000 deaths.
Andrew Cuomo eventually reversed the order but has defended the decision in public press conferences, claiming that New York was only following the Trump administration&#8217;s directives, even going so far as to blame President Donald Trump for the issue as well as nursing home administrators, whom he claimed did not follow state and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations that coronavirus patients be sequestered from the general population of adult care facilities.
Hidden in Cuomo&#8217;s budget, released separately from the nursing home orders, though, is a provision seemingly exempting nursing home executives from liability in cases where elderly individuals and facility patients fell ill with COVID-19. The provision, according <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cuomo-immunity-nursing-home-campaign-donation">to Fox News</a>, says that officials “shall have immunity from any liability, civil or criminal, for any harm or damages alleged to have been sustained as a result of an act or omission in the course of arranging for or providing healthcare services.&#8221;
Now, the Guardian, in an expose published Wednesday, reports that the &#8220;the New York State Democratic Committee, then backing Cuomo’s primary run in 2018, received more than $1 million from the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA) &#8212; a lobbying group for hospital systems, some of which own nursing homes.&#8221;
&#8220;As Governor Andrew Cuomo faced a spirited challenge in his bid to win New York’s 2018 Democratic primary, his political apparatus got a last-minute boost: a powerful healthcare industry group suddenly poured more than $1m into a Democratic committee backing his campaign,&#8221; the Guardian notes.
<blockquote>Less than two years after that flood of cash from the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA), Cuomo signed legislation last month quietly shielding hospital and nursing home executives from the threat of lawsuits stemming from the coronavirus outbreak. The provision, inserted into an annual budget bill by Cuomo’s aides, created one of the nation’s most explicit immunity protections for healthcare industry officials, according to legal experts.</blockquote>
&#8220;Three of the hospital association’s top officials separately gave more than $150,000 to Cuomo’s campaign between 2015 and 2018,&#8221; Fox News added in a follow up on the Guardian&#8217;s report.
Cuomo&#8217;s office says the order is designed to allow nursing home officials to complete their duties without fear.
“This pandemic remains an unprecedented public health crisis and we had to realign New York’s entire healthcare system, using every type of facility to prepare for the surge, and recruiting more than 96,000 volunteers – 25,000 from out of state, to help fight this virus,” a Cuomo senior advisor told the Guardian. “These volunteers are good samaritans and what was passed by 111 members of the legislature was an expansion of the existing Good Samaritan Law to apply to the emergency that coronavirus created. If we had not done this, these volunteers wouldn’t have been accepted and we never would have had enough frontline healthcare workers.”
New York lawmakers are clamoring to reverse the liability waiver, just as their session is ending in Albany, the Guardian says.
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REPORT: Andrew Cuomo Granted Nursing Homes Legal Protection After Receiving Campaign Donation

On Monday morning, former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton decided to celebrate Memorial Day, which honors the veterans who have fought for America, with a tweet that didn’t acknowledge their sacrifice but instead trumpeted her approval of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for his “responsible decisions to keep people safe.”
Clinton wrote, “I’m missing our Chappaqua Memorial Day parade today while also feeling grateful to leaders like @NYGovCuomo for making responsible decisions to keep people safe. Wishing everyone a safe and healthy holiday, @Bill Clinton and I will be waving our flags at home.”
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I&#39;m missing our Chappaqua Memorial Day parade today while also feeling grateful to leaders like <a href="https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYGovCuomo</a> for making responsible decisions to keep people safe. 
Wishing everyone a safe and healthy holiday. <a href="https://twitter.com/BillClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BillClinton</a> and I will be waving our flags at home. 🇺🇸 <a href="https://t.co/oi2NAUT6R6">pic.twitter.com/oi2NAUT6R6</a>
&mdash; Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1264912356834004992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Clinton’s laudatory salute to Cuomo flies in the face of harsh criticism of Cuomo’s handling of the coronavirus crisis in New York. As Kyle Smith wrote in <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/coronavirus-crisis-andrew-cuomo-reckless-choices/">National Review</a>:
<blockquote>Cuomo made three breathtakingly bad moves in March that in retrospect amounted to catastrophe. First, Cuomo failed to call for, and even actively discouraged, informal social-distancing measures in early March. Next was the delay in mid-March in ordering formal closures when the virus started rampaging through his state. Third was his March 25 edict to long-term care facilities that they must accept infected patients, which caused a mass deadly outbreak among helpless, trapped, elderly New Yorkers.</blockquote>
As far as the military and Clinton, in October 2015, Clinton appeared on MSNBC, where she <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/transcript-rachel-maddow-interviews-hillary-clinton">attempted to minimize the Veterans Affair scandal</a> and blame the GOP. She stated:
<blockquote>You know, I don’t understand why we have such a problem, because there have been a number of surveys of veterans, and overall, veterans who do get treated are satisfied with their treatment … Now, nobody would believe that from the coverage that you see, and the constant berating of the V.A. that comes from the Republicans, in – in part in pursuit of this ideological agenda that they have … It’s not been as widespread as it has been made out to be … here’s a perfect example of the way that the Republicans try to have it both ways. They try to create a downward spiral.  Don’t fund it to the extent that it needs to be funded, because we want it to fail so then we can argue for privatization.  They still want to privatize Medicare.  They still want to do away with Social Security. And these are fights we’ve been having for 70, 80 years, now.  So we cannot grow weary in the face of these ideological assaults on basic fundamental services, whether it’s the V.A., Medicare, Social Security. But we have to be more creative about trying to fix the problems that are the legitimate concern, so that we can try to stymie the Republican assault.</blockquote>
In a <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2015/10/26/hillary-relax-the-va-scandal-wasnt-a-widespread-problem-n2070919">piece ripping Clinton’s claims to shreds</a>, Guy Benson of Townhall noted, “Kindly allow me to remind you that Hillary Clinton&#8217;s party is <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2015/10/02/senate-democrats-filibuster-veterans-funding-bill-n2059902">currently filibustering</a> a bill that funds the VA, using America&#8217;s veterans as a bargaining chip to try to force Republicans to agree to unrelated spending increases. President Obama is engaged in similar ‘hostage taking,’ having <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2015/10/23/obama-defense-bill-veto-n2069796">just vetoed</a> bipartisan defense legislation that, among other things, would pay the troops.” Benson added, “The VA&#8217;s problem is not underfunding; its budget <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2014/05/30/this-chart-shows-why-the-vas-problems-have-nothing-to-do-with-funding/">nearly tripled</a> between 2000 and 2012, outpacing both the rate of medical price inflation and new patient demand.”
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De Blasio Demands Cuomo Apologize To NYPD, Police Union Blasts Both For Feud

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CNN Host Chris Cuomo’s Ratings Plunge After Brother’s Frequent Goofy Appearances

WILLIAMS: Insane News Tidbits

New York Announces Reopening Plan Called ‘Transitioning Into Some Vague Semblance Of Competence’ [Satire]

WATCH: Gov. Cuomo Called Out On Blaming Trump For Nursing Home Scandal, Says NY Did Better Than Majority Of States

REPORT: Andrew Cuomo Granted Nursing Homes Legal Protection After Receiving Campaign Donation

Hillary Celebrates Memorial Day By Lauding Cuomo’s ‘Responsible Decisions,’ Ignores Military

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Cuomo Administration’s Investigation Blames Health Care Workers For Nursing Home COVID Deaths, Not Governor’s Order

WATCH: Andrew Cuomo Mocks Trump: ‘Put A Mask On It’

Texas Rep Louis Gohmert Targets NY’s Cuomo: ‘We Don’t Have A Governor Sending People With COVID To Our Nursing Homes’

‘Best Politician In The Country’: Chris Cuomo Lauds Brother Amid Criticisms Over NY’s Pandemic Response

Cuomo Again Tries To Blame Federal Government For COVID Nursing Home Crisis. White House: Not So Fast.

Gov. Cuomo Says Protesters Tearing Down Statues Is ‘Healthy Expression’

Andrew Cuomo Considering Quarantining Floridians Visiting NY. Florida GOP Governor DeSantis Fires Back Blistering Response.

CURL: Democrats Decry Lockdown Protests, Trump Rallies, But Are All In For Leftist Protests, Riots

Left Mocks Trump Jr. ‘Interview’ With His Dad. Trump Jr.: It’s Not An Interview, Unlike That CNN Anchor And His Brother.

Cuomo Warns New Yorkers Of Second Lockdown Over Restaurants, Bars, Ignores Massive Brooklyn Protest

WSJ Investigation: Cuomo, De Blasio Pandemic Response Contributed To New York Death Toll

Cuomo-Pushed Legislation: You‘ll Be Charged With Hate Crime, Face Prison Time If Your 911 Call Is ‘Based On Race,’ Unnecessary

De Blasio Demands Cuomo Apologize To NYPD, Police Union Blasts Both For Feud

New York WAR: Cuomo Trashes De Blasio, Calls NYC Mayor A ‘Disgrace,’ Claims He Could ‘Displace’ De Blasio Over Riots

CNN Host Chris Cuomo’s Ratings Plunge After Brother’s Frequent Goofy Appearances

WILLIAMS: Insane News Tidbits

New York Announces Reopening Plan Called ‘Transitioning Into Some Vague Semblance Of Competence’ [Satire]

WATCH: Gov. Cuomo Called Out On Blaming Trump For Nursing Home Scandal, Says NY Did Better Than Majority Of States

REPORT: Andrew Cuomo Granted Nursing Homes Legal Protection After Receiving Campaign Donation

Hillary Celebrates Memorial Day By Lauding Cuomo’s ‘Responsible Decisions,’ Ignores Military

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