Anonymous Coward User ID: 66288393 United States 07/13/2020 06:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NY governor Cuomo tells Trump, you called the FEDERAL EMERGENCY in march, so your responsible for everything, now you say the cdc lied? [ link to www.marketwatch.com (secure)] Cuomo reminded reporters that Trump made a federal emergency declaration concerning COVID-19 back in March but has since left it to individual states to manage the crisis. “If you issue a federal emergency, that means it’s a federal emergency, and who is control of a federal emergency? The federal government. That’s why you have the word ‘federal’ in all those expressions,” he said. Now Trump is “attacking science,” and his own health-care experts, said the governor, referring to Trump’s retweeting on Sunday of two tweets by a former game-show host, Chuck Woolery, who now hosts a conservative podcast. Woolery, best known for his stints on the shows “Wheel of Fortune” and “Love Connection,” accused the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the media, Democrats, doctors and others of telling “outrageous lies” about the pandemic to damage Trump’s re-election chances. Cuomo, as he spoke, flashed a picture of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the widely respected longtime head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on whom the White House appears to be seeking to pin blame. “Now he says his own CDC officials are lying about the virus — his own CDC health officials!” said Cuomo. “Trump’s COVID-19 scandal makes [President Richard] Nixon’s Watergate scandal look innocent.” |