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You can’t write comedy this good. In opening Thursday’s edition of PrimeTime, host Chris “Fredo” Cuomo, whose nickname comes from the dumb brother in The Godfather and who failed to correctly identify a rhino on a cognitive assessment test, raged at President Trump and insisted he was bungling the COVID response because “his judgment may not just be bad. It may be impaired.” But several minutes later, and after he mocked Trump’s mispronunciations, Fredo invented a new federal law enforcement agency: the “Department of Handland” Security.
“Now, we had assumed the President was refusing to help us with testing because he was making a political calculation, but, regrettably, we may have been wrong. Today this President gave us reason to believe that his judgment may not just be bad. It may be impaired,” Fredo proclaimed, coming to the defense of Cuomo-family friend, Joe Biden at the top of the show.
After playing an edited soundbite of Trump calling out Biden for wanted to gut the Second Amendment and blasting his religious devotion, Fredo lashed out. “Those are the rantings of someone shouting at the sky and hoping for spare change,” he shouted.
Cuomo processed to return fire for Biden and questioned Trump’s religion and insisted “it is time to take a look at his fortitude.” It was clear that Cuomo was acting as a Biden surrogate because he tried to throw the Trump campaign’s tactic of questioning Biden’s mental state back at them.
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