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In a Monday press conference, corrupt New York Governor Andrew Cuomo spun a web of lies and misinformation about his administration’s cover-up of nursing home deaths due to COVID-19. Blaming everyone from former President Trump to nursing home staff, Cuomo refused to take responsibility as he openly lied about his administration’s actions. Despite how blatant and easily disprovable his claims were, ABC and CBS refused to give him the Trump treatment and fact-check anything he said.
Instead, we got correspondents like Carter Evans on CBS Evening News who worked to prop up Cuomo’s false claims. “New York Governor Cuomo defended himself against charges that the state underreported the death toll from nursing homes early in the pandemic, but then tried to cover it up,” Evens reported.
He followed that up with his soundbite of the Governor: “I want everyone to know, everything was done. Everything was done by the best minds in the best interest.”
What Evans claimed were mere “charges” of a cover-up were, in fact, admitted to by one of Cuomo’s aides. He refused to mention that Secretary Melissa DeRosa was caught on audio admitting to state Democratic lawmakers they tried to cover-up the numbers to hide them from federal investigators.
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