A new report from CNBC — based on interviews with unnamed sources who were present at the discussions — alleges that disgraced CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, who was fired from the liberal network last week, worked with his brother's top aides to discredit Fox News meteorologist Janice Dean, a fierce critic of the Cuomo administration's handling of the nursing home scandal.
What's the background?
Dean was one of disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo's sharpest and earliest critics during the pandemic, after her in-laws died of complications of COVID-19 in a New York nursing home. Dean's in-laws died in March and April of 2020 after Gov. Cuomo's infamous order requiring nursing homes to accept COVID-positive patients. After this, Dean relentlessly criticized Cuomo on Twitter and in other forums, accusing him of being responsible for the death of her in-laws and thousands of other nursing home patients in New York.
According to the CNBC report, Dean's criticism must have found the mark, because the governor's team hatched a plot to discredit her as a "right-wing commentator." The report states that Gov. Cuomo's top aide, Melissa DeRosa, asked CNN's Chris Cuomo for help digging up information that might be detrimental to Dean's credibility. CNBC's sources did not know whether Chris Cuomo followed through with this request.
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She had a voice, and both her and her husband's parents died in Covid lockdowns!