MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace once said historians would study Cuomo bailiffs as examples of ‘crisis leadership’

MSNBC presenter Nicolle Wallace may have gotten ahead of the game by praising New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo’s daily coronavirus briefings during the first weeks of the pandemic.

Cuomo has come under fire in recent days after New York Attorney General Letitia James released a report alleging the state Department of Health may have underreported coronavirus deaths by up to 50% in retirement homes. According to revised figures released by the Cuomo administration last week, a total of 12,743 nursing home residents have been confirmed or presumed to have died from the coronavirus in nursing homes and hospitals as of January 19. at home – not to anyone who died in hospital during treatment.

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However, while Cuomo’s controversial nursing home policy has screamed critics for months, much of the mainstream media has overlooked the governor’s unhappy order and praised his “leadership,” including the “Deadline: White House” host.

“People will watch this @NYGovCuomo presser when they study crisis leadership – especially his remarks that disinformation is more dangerous than the virus,” Wallace tweeted in March 2020.

Cuomo faced even more unrest on Monday after The New York Times reported that nine of his senior health officials had left his administration in recent months due to clashes with the governor.

The story quotes the Democrat who doubts what “experts” have to say about the COVID outbreak.

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“When I say ‘experts’ in aerial quotes it sounds like I am saying I don’t really trust the experts … because I don’t,” Cuomo said at the press conference last Friday. .

Despite rave reviews from the mainstream media, the governor of New York has faced a backlash for his policy requiring nursing homes to accept COVID patients from overcrowded hospitals. This policy has been blamed for the deaths of thousands of elderly people in his state who belonged to assistants’ residences.