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TomCADem

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4. Trump Obsesses Over Flu Deaths, Attacks Cuomo in Softball Fox News Chat
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 09:01 PM
Mar 2020

It seems like Trump has repeatedly attacked Cuomo. I have yet to see Trump attack Bernie with the regularity with which he attacks Cuomo, primarily because Trump wants to place any blame for the situation in NY on Cuomo. But if you are aware of a bunch of pro-Cuomo tweets by Trump, it would be quite a surprise.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-obsesses-over-flu-deaths-attacks-cuomo-in-softball-fox-news-chat

In a Tuesday virtual town hall with a deferential Fox News panel, President Donald Trump spent much of his time obsessing over the number of flu deaths America experiences annually in order to downplay the threat of the coronavirus pandemic as he looks to reopen the American economy sooner than expected.

The president also took aim at New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, who earlier in the day complained about the lack of ventilators received from the federal government.

“I watched Governor Cuomo and he was very nice,” the president said of the New York governor’s press conference, which preceded the Fox News town hall, before attacking Cuomo for “complaining” about receiving only 3,000 ventilators from the Federal Emergency Management Agency despite needing, in his estimation, at least 30,000 of the devices.

“He had a choice. He had a chance,” the president continued. “He refused to order 15,000 ventilators,” Trump said, pulling out a printout of an article from far-right blog The Gateway Pundit and paraphrasing the headline: “It says that he didn’t buy the ventilators in 2015 for a pandemic, established death panels and lotteries instead.”
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