Governor Andrew Cuomo claimed Monday that President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis was worse than the Watergate scandal that forced President Richard Nixon to leave office.
“The Trump COVID scandal makes Nixon’s Watergate look innocent,” Cuomo said during a press conference in Manhattan.
“No one died in the Watergate scandal. Thousands of people are going to die in this COVID scandal and that is all the difference in the world. “
Cuomo also alluded to recent events by suggesting that if Trump does not believe Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a A key member of his White House coronavirus special force, he should be fired.
“The president now says that his own health officials are lying about the virus,” Cuomo said. “Do you know what I would do if I believed that my own health commissioner was lying? I would fire him.
On Sunday, the nation’s top coronavirus testing official, Undersecretary of Health Admiral Brett Giroir publicly clashed with Fauci over the issue of reopening states after coronavirus blockades.
“I have a lot of respect for Dr. Fauci, but Dr. Fauci is not absolutely right, nor does he necessarily admit that he has the entire national interest in mind,” Giroir told NBC’s “Meet the Press”.
“It looks at it from a very limited public health point of view.”
Trump’s advisers also privately weakened Fauci over the weekend by providing the media with details of the statements he made at the start of the pandemic that they said were inaccurate, the New York Times reported.
COVID-19 has killed 135,272 people in the United States as of Monday afternoon, according to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center.
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