CNN Exploits Cuomo’s Virus: Don’t Know If We Survive With Trump

Nicholas Fondacaro | April 1, 2020
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It’s unfortunate that CNN Prime Time host Chris Cuomo had contracted the coronavirus and had to be quarantined in his basement. But it was only a matter of time before he and the network exploited it to bash President Trump. They made their move on Wednesday when they used Cuomo’s diagnosis to dredge up the long-debunked claim that the President had called the virus a “hoax.” He even went to a disgustingly dark place and suggested that we might not survive with Trump leading the country.

At the end of the program, Cuomo decided to talk about the struggles he had with the symptoms overnight (extreme shivering and hallucinations). It was then that he exploited his condition.

“I wish had gotten this virus a month ago,” he proclaimed. “And I'll tell you why. I wish I would have had it then so I could have told you then this is no joke. We are sleeping on something, and it is a mistake. And I would have had a different platform to jump on the President playing it as a hoax and playing politics with this.” In reality, the only people playing politics with the virus were on the left.

As honest fact-checkers could attest to, the only thing President Trump referred to as a “hoax” in regards to the virus was the Democratic and liberal media narrative that he wasn’t taking it seriously.

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