{"id":320234,"date":"2021-08-10T01:23:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T22:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/dont-let-dems-bury-cuomos-nursing-home-horrors\/"},"modified":"2021-08-10T01:23:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T22:23:09","slug":"dont-let-dems-bury-cuomos-nursing-home-horrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dont-let-dems-bury-cuomos-nursing-home-horrors\/","title":{"rendered":"#Don’t let Dems bury Cuomo’s nursing-home horrors"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Don’t let Dems bury Cuomo’s nursing-home horrors<\/strong>”
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It seems justice is finally going to be served to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. State Attorney General<\/a> Letitia James\u2019 report detailing Cuomo\u2019s record as a serial sex-harasser delivered what may be the death blow to his time in office, forcing the desperate Love Gov to resign or suffer the indignity of impeachment.<\/p>\n

Yes, it\u2019s great to watch a man whose thuggish character was app<\/a>arent throughout his tenure finally being called to account. But there\u2019s something troubling about the way Cuomo is being hustled out of office: Obscured amid the details about his gross behavior and the way his aides and liberal feminist enablers tried to discredit the victims is the fact that Cuomo remains responsible for the deaths of perhaps thousands of elderly New Yorkers during the early months of the pandemic \u2014 and for his administration\u2019s ongoing, illegal coverup of the numbers highlighting that fact.<\/p>\n

Even as critics like Fox News<\/a> meteorologist Janice Dean courageously spoke out about the issue, the governor spent most of 2020 as a national idol, venerated by the mainstream media<\/a> for what President Joe Biden called the \u201cgold standard\u201d for coronavirus crisis management. The nation was riveted by his daily press briefings; he actually won a special Emmy for them.<\/p>\n

It was not until James issued a report in January stating Cuomo underestimated the number of nursing-home deaths by as much as 50 percent that he began to feel any real heat. His problems worsened when an aide admitted his staff had deliberately hidden the true number of deaths to shield Team Cuomo from scrutiny. And, as The Post noted last week, the coverup hasn\u2019t even ended yet, as the state continues to stall on releasing documents about his COVID record.<\/p>\n

Does it matter which issue applies the coup de gr\u00e2ce, so long as the story ends with Cuomo being sent packing in disgrace?<\/p>\n

It does. As awful as his treatment of the 11 accusers may be, the needless additional deaths of hundreds or thousands in nursing homes must be considered an even worse crime. If the governor is allowed to skate for his infamous March 25, 2020, order forcing nursing homes to take in COVID patients, and his subsequent coverup, then no one should pretend justice is being done. The families of those who died as a result of his arrogant stupidity and willful ignorance deserve closure for what happened to their loved ones.<\/p>\n

But also consider: The mainstream press\u2019 willingness throughout 2020 to give Cuomo a pass for his nursing-home massacre was no accident. That his former media cheering section and fellow Democrats are prepared to use the sexual-harassment charges as the sole <\/em>reason for ousting him has a truly terrible stink.<\/p>\n

Truth is, elevating Cuomo as a COVID hero was part of an effort to contrast his supposed brilliance with former President Donald Trump\u2019s alleged incompetence. The deaths of tens of thousands of nursing-home patients in states like New York, New Jersey and Michigan as a result of decisions by Democratic governors helped create the sense of panic and establish the narrative that Trump was responsible for a national disaster.<\/p>\n

Correcting that record, even after Trump\u2019s defeat in November, is problematic for liberals since it not only makes clear that (despite the ex-prez\u2019s terrible messaging about the virus and other missteps) what happened a year ago was not primarily Trump\u2019s fault. Dems would love to shove Cuomo\u2019s responsibility for this catastrophe down an Orwellian memory hole, even as he is himself dispatched, now that his survival no longer serves his party\u2019s political interests.<\/p>\n

Indeed, doing so lets the left continue to blame pandemic deaths on Republicans, like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who might have made mistakes too but at least protected the elderly in his state\u2019s nursing homes \u2014 as Cuomo should have.<\/p>\n

New York mustn\u2019t allow Cuomo to evade accountability for his nursing-home fiasco by focusing exclusively on the sexual-harassment charges. That\u2019s a partisan strategy meant not only to bury an injustice but to help Democrats hold power \u2014 even as a despicable governor loses his grip on it.<\/p>\n

Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS.org<\/em>. Twitter: @jonathans_tobin<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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