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Ana Navarro: ‘I thought Chris Cuomo was my friend’
‘The View’s’ Sunny Hostin drastically overstates share of COVID deaths amongst youthful folks
Co-host of ABC’s “The View” Sunny Hostin drastically overstated the share of coronavirus deaths amongst youthful folks throughout a Tuesday dialogue on the liberal daytime discuss present over the lifting of masks mandates in faculties. Throughout the dialogue, Hostin praised the excessive vaccination charges of the states deciding to raise the mandates, which included New Jersey, California and Connecticut, however turned the dialog to complaining about dad and mom who’ve opted to not vaccinate their kids.
CNN commentator Ana Navarro referred to as out disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and former CNN host Chris Cuomo whereas showing as a visitor co-host on ABC’s “The View.”
On Tuesday, the ladies hosts mentioned the current rumors suggesting that Andrew Cuomo was eyeing a run for New York Legal professional Common towards Letitia James. James, a fellow Democrat who revealed the detailed report that detailed a number of ladies’s sexual misconduct accusations towards the previous governor.
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After listening to concerning the potential match up between Andrew Cuomo and James, Navarro commented how she was “Cuomoed out” from the information.
“This week, I’m significantly Cuomoed out. I feel the fallout from this Andrew Cuomo resignation, the allegations has been horrific, proper? We noticed that the chief director of the Human Rights Marketing campaign Alphonso David misplaced his job. Tina Chen at Time’s Up misplaced her job. Time’s Up, the group, was dissolved. We noticed, Chris Cuomo misplaced his job. Then the devastation that’s occurring at CNN with the resignation of Jeff Zucker,” Navarro stated. “My query to New Yorkers is with this many million folks, can’t you discover someone that doesn’t have the extent of bags and baggage that this man has.”
“Nearly each politician has some type of baggage,” co-host Pleasure Behar argued.
“You may’t have credible allegations of sexual harassment,” Navarro responded.
Previous to the Cuomo brothers’ downfall, Navarro defended each of them. She defended the controversial interviews between Chris Cuomo his brother through the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Whereas the ladies criticized Cuomo for his sexual harassment allegations, a couple of have been forgiving of the previous governor for his nursing house scandal.
“Folks make errors. And he made a name when the previous president was not making calls. The truth is, he stated out loud ‘I’m going to go away this as much as the governors, though I’m the president. I’m going to go away this as much as the governors.’ Governor Cuomo stepped up. He made some, trying again, dangerous choices, and lives have been misplaced,” Sara Haines stated.
She added, “If he had stated we haven’t seen this earlier than, it was a nasty name, this was on me, and completed one thing…he went after folks, and that confirmed me who he was and that’s only a rampant abuse of energy.”
NEW YORK, NY – JUNE 12: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks through the each day media briefing on the Workplace of the Governor of the State of New York on June 12, 2020 in New York Metropolis. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the “Say Their Identify” reform laws, an agenda that requires higher policing requirements in New York State within the wake of current protests and in response to George Floyd’s loss of life.
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Behar defended Andrew Cuomo saying, “Nursing properties throughout the nation suffered, and New York was one of many first hit in early Covid days.”
Nonetheless, Navarro stated it wasn’t an excessive amount of to ask to have a candidate that doesn’t have 11 sexual misconduct allegations towards them.
Whereas, co-host Sunny Hostin additionally took the chance to slam Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis as “Deathsantis” and unfold the conspiracy idea about him hiding COVID numbers, Navarro maintained her disappointment for each Andrew and Chris Cuomo.
2021 was not a very good yr for the Cuomo siblings. (Picture by Spencer Platt/Getty Photos)
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“With all of those revelations, and it’s additionally a poisonous office, it’s the bullying that was occurring in Albany. It’s only a bridge too far. And I preferred the man, and I assumed Chris Cuomo was my buddy, however there may be approach an excessive amount of toxicity round this whole factor, and it seems like a wrath and a vendetta. It’s as much as New Yorkers, I wouldn’t vote for [for Cuomo],” she stated.
