Fredo Launches Segment Dedicated to Vaccine Distribution Conspiracies

Nicholas Fondacaro | December 14, 2020
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CNN’s Cuomo PrimeTime was something a den for tinfoil hat conspiracy theories against President Trump and his administration. Host Chris “Fredo” Cuomo had overseen such classic segments such as Trump intentionally withheld coronavirus testing, and Trump was going to start a war to hamstring President-elect Biden. But during Monday’s edition of the program, Fredo launched a new nightly segment dedicated to tracking vaccine distribution because we couldn’t trust the administration.

After announcing the new segment, “Vacci-Nation,” Cuomo proclaimed “trust but verify” was not good enough with Trump. “Trust can only come after we verify. The hard truth is we’ve never done anything like this ever. And what a shame to have something that could make a difference and then it doesn't get where it needs to be,” he said.

Of course, Cuomo went on to speculate about whether or not the Trump administration knew where and how to get the vaccine to people:

The site of those first vaccines going into the arms of Americans, it's beautiful. It's beautiful, all right? More are heading to every corner of this land. But how much? Is it right? It is proportionate? Do some people get too much? And what about those that don't get enough? Is there any kind of sharing? How do you figure it out? Which communities is it going to? What type of people in those communities? Are we exacerbating problems of inequality here? See?

After shouting about how the media were “forced” to put up maps and graphics showing where cases were spiking, he blamed it on Trump. “We were forced to do that because we had this bizarro situation of the person at the top of the food chain telling you that we were lying about the urgency,” he sneered. “We’ve never had to deal with that either and hopefully we never have to again, ever. Ever.”

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