Nets Ignore Harassment Claims Against Cuomo, ‘Let's Play Strip Poker’

Nicholas Fondacaro | February 24, 2021
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On Wednesday, the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) were again running defense for corrupt New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D); but instead of helping to cover-up his nursing home deaths, they were ignoring claims of sexual harassment from a former aide. They also didn’t care to report on a rally of family members whose loved ones were killed by Cuomo’s order to put COVID-positive patients in nursing homes.

It was the second time the broadcast networks ignored the accusations of former Cuomo aide Lindsey Boylan, who on Wednesday published an essay detailing Cuomo’s alleged creepy comments to her. Which Cuomo denied ever happened.

But on Fox News Channel’s Special Report, correspondent Bryan Llenas read from Boylan’s essay:

“‘Let's play strip poker.’ I should have been shocked by the Governor's crude comment, but I wasn't.” That Lindsey Boylan claims is what Governor Andrew Cuomo told her on an October 2017 flight. It’s one of many details Boylan lays out in an essay posted online today.

Instead of reporting on the claims against Cuomo, ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir was more interested in telling viewers about an American Airline flight that reported a UFO. “The pilot telling air traffic control that a long cylindrical object just flew over the plane. He said it looked like a cruise missile,” he told his audience after teasing it multiple times.

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