Cuomo Blames Trump for Scam COVID Cure His Wife Peddled

Nicholas Fondacaro | July 10, 2020
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CNN’s Chris “Fredo” Cuomo wrapped up Thursday’s edition of PrimeTime with a tirade blaming President Trump for scammers selling and hurting people with a false coronavirus cure federal investigators called “toxic bleach.” But a Huffington Post article from back in April warned readers not to listen to Cuomo’s wife, Cristina Cuomo who was telling people bathe in bleach to cure one’s self of the virus, something Fredo defended during his rant.

As part of his “Ameri-can’t” segment at the end of the show, Cuomo dredged up how Trump once asked this coronavirus task force if they could look at using disinfectants to eliminate the virus inside the body (something that was deadly to the person).

Providing absolutely no evidence that the scammers were inspired by the President, or that the people who fell for the scam were as well, Cuomo placed the blame solely on Trump:

And the problem is when a president speaks, even Trump, people listen. The proof? Tonight's Ameri-can'ts, okay? They have taken full advantage of that ridiculous and dangerous notion to cash in, and people were buying it and taking it with lethal results. The feds say a Florida father and three sons tried to -- tried to pass off what they call a ‘toxic bleach’ as a, quote, “miracle mineral solution for coronavirus.”

Too obtuse to realize he was destroying his own argument, Fredo admitted “this isn't the family's first go-around either at the at-home pharmacy game. They've also claimed this miracle batch could cure cancer, Alzheimer's, autism, HIV/AIDS and more.”

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