Current Events > Cuomo threatens to destroy Democrat for not helping with nursing home coverup.

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https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/17/politics/cuomo-ron-kim-nursing-home/index.html

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been pleading with lawmakers for support and even threatening political retribution against Democrats who have criticized him in an aggressive effort to contain political fallout from revelations that his administration had concealed the full extent of nursing home-related deaths during the Covid pandemic. Describing an alleged exchange with the governor that has not been previously reported, Democratic Assemblyman Ron Kim told CNN that he received a call on his cell phone from the governor last week as he was bathing his children at home. "Gov. Cuomo called me directly on Thursday to threaten my career if I did not cover up for Melissa [DeRosa] and what she said. He tried to pressure me to issue a statement, and it was a very traumatizing experience," Kim said. Cuomo proceeded to tell the assemblyman that "we're in this business together and we don't cross certain lines and he said I hadn't seen his wrath and that he can destroy me," according to Kim. DeRosa is a top aide to the governor who came under fire last week after she told state lawmakers in a private virtual meeting that the state had delayed sharing with the legislature the full scope of the Covid-related death toll of New York's nursing home residents because of concerns about a potential federal investigation by the Department of Justice. (The governor's office has since released a partial transcript of the call.)

Kim, a progressive representing Queens who has been among the most vocal critics of Cuomo's handling of nursing homes during the pandemic and believes his own uncle died from a presumed case of Covid in a nursing home last year, participated in that virtual call. During the meeting, Kim said he called on the governor to apologize to family members of those who died in assisted living facilities. When the New York Post first reported on DeRosa's controversial comments, he was one of the participants quoted in the piece criticizing those remarks. "No man has ever spoken to me like that in my entire life," Kim said of his phone call with Cuomo. "At some point he tried to humiliate me, asking: 'Are you a lawyer? I didn't think so. You're not a lawyer.' It almost felt like in retrospect he was trying to bait me and anger me and say something inappropriate. I'm glad I didn't." Kim's wife told CNN that she had overheard parts of Kim's phone call with Cuomo last week, and described the governor as "loud" and "angry." She said she heard Cuomo say, "Who do you think you are?" as well as the words, "my wrath," and that immediately after the phone call, her husband told her: "The governor threatened to destroy my life."

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This Andrew Cuomo guy seems like some sort of terrible asshole

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Hope he's recalled

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Zero_Destroyer posted...

Hope he's recalled

NY does not have a recall process

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This is reminding me of the end of The Godfather. While Cuomo was taking all the attention with his press conferences he's having old people killed elsewhere.

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Lol, this dude is done bc dems actually hold their own accountable.
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Is he gonna tell stand up jokes with his goofy brother on CNN tomorrow?

lilORANG posted...

Lol, this dude is done bc dems actually hold their own accountable.

Like Ralph Northam!

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Antifar posted...

This Andrew Cuomo guy seems like some sort of terrible asshole

Yea. And he no longer has media sources like CNN and NY Times defending him. CNN banned his brother from interviewing him.

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Andy Cuomo's gone off the deep end.

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they dont call him king Cuomo for nothing him and deblasio are shit tier

Even De Blasio is politically distancing himself. If that's not a death knell, I don't know what is.

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Fuck this mamaluke

fuck cuomo, I remember last year when people looked at him like he was some saviour. All politicians are the same. Except a few outliers like aoc and bernie.

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