GOP representative Matt Gaetz condemned the media for portraying Governor Andrew Cuomo as an “oracle” in his response to the coronavirus – after it emerged that his top assistant admitted that the administration was covering the number of deaths in nursing homes.
“The media is absolutely guilty of promoting this mythology of Cuomo being belied by the facts, and the facts are getting uglier and uglier, both for the New York governor and for the media,” Gaetz told Fox News Saturday. Jeanine Pirro.
Gaetz said at the same time that during his daily national televised briefings, the media was itching about Cuomo as the “ great oracle of response to the coronavirus, they were running the flu against our president, pretending that everything he did was making this virus more deadly. to be. “
The Florida Republican said former President Donald Trump has put the country on the “path to the fastest and safest vaccine development the world has ever known.”
He said Trump’s efforts are still saving lives even as the controversy over the deaths in Cuomo’s nursing home is just beginning to come to light.
Here you had Governor Cuomo who may have destroyed records showing that this was a very deadly plan. Everyone knows the card game in Times Square. But here they played Monte with three cards with grandma, moving people from nursing homes to hospital and then injecting the virus back into nursing homes, ”said Gaetz.
The Post revealed last week that during a videoconference meeting with Democratic state leaders, top Cuomo assistant Melissa DeRosa told them that the governor’s office turned down a legislative request for the numbers because it feared the Trump administration would turn it into a “ giant political football. ” .
“He’s starting to tweet that we killed everyone in nursing homes,” DeRosa said. ‘He goes in the back [New Jersey Gov. Phil] Murphy, get behind [California Gov. Gavin] Newsom, go to the back [Michigan Gov.] Gretchen Whitmer. “
A number of lawmakers, including former Governor George Pataki, have called for an investigation into the Cuomo government by President Biden’s Justice Department, Attorney General Letitia James, and the state legislature.
“This is one of the worst things I’ve seen in the New York State government, and I’ve been following this for a long time,” said Pataki.