CNN’s Chris Cuomo told his viewers this year he’d stop advising his brother, disgraced Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, on how to navigate multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.
The cable news gremlin that faked the moment he “emerged” from his basement after an alleged battle with COVID-19 apparently lied.
Who would have predicted such a thing?
The Washington Post reports this week: “Cuomo, who is ensconced in the governor’s mansion in Albany and has not been coming to the office, is left with few advisers. Rich Azzopardi, his longtime spokesman, has said he plans to stay in his post. The governor also continues to confer with longtime adviser Charlie King, a lobbyist at the public strategy firm Mercury, as well as his brother, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, according to people familiar with the situation.”
One day after the Washington Post reported this, the governor announced his resignation, an unexpected move that comes just days after New York Attorney General Letitia James released a report concluding the governor sexually harassed at least 11 women, including state employees.
It’s unexpected for a number of reasons, including that Cuomo is well known as the sort of person to attempt to fight his way through scandal, even when the number of accusers nears a dozen. Another reason is that the governor’s idiot brother was advising him on how to handle the allegations as recently as last week.
The New York Times confirms the Washington Post’s report: “Chris Cuomo has regularly spoken with Governor Cuomo by telephone over the past week and advised his brother to resign, said two people who requested anonymity to describe sensitive private conversations.”
By the way, this isn’t the first time that it has been reported that the cable news anchor, who hosted the New York governor for a half-dozen glow-up interviews during the height of the coronavirus pandemic last year, has been advising New York’s disgraced governor behind the scenes.
The Washington Post reported in May of this year that “CNN anchor Chris Cuomo advised his brother, New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, and senior members of the governor’s staff on how to respond to sexual harassment allegations made earlier this year by women who had worked with the governor, according to four people familiar with the discussions.”
In May, after the Washington Post reported the CNN anchor was working quietly to help his brother beat multiple sexual misconduct allegations, critics rightly denounced the entire rotten set-up. After all, Chris Cuomo used CNN’s airwaves last year to promote his brother. Chris Cuomo then recused himself from covering his brother’s scandals. Now it comes out Chris Cuomo has been coaching his older brother on how to manage sexual misconduct allegations?
In response to the well-deserved criticism, the CNN anchor apologized to his viewers, saying it wouldn’t happen again.
“I understand why that was a problem for CNN,” Cuomo said on his show. “It will not happen again. It was a mistake because I put my colleagues here, who I believe are the best in the business, in a bad spot. I never intended for that. I would never intend for that, and I am sorry for that.”
Yet, here we are roughly 80 days later, and we learn the CNN anchor never stopped advising his brother.
Boy, if you can’t trust a pair of privileged nepotist brothers, whom can you trust?
