by
M. Richard Maxson
President Trump did everything he could to help the citizens in his beloved New York but the Democratic party, with Andrew Cuomo as their point man, refused to participate in anything the President did and as a result nearly 15,000 Americans died!!! They died because of Democratic Socialist politics and their blood is on the hands of the Democratic party.
Give Trump nothing, no credit for anything, any time, any where. He was trying to help, trying to save lives. No matter, the destruction of all things Trump in their quest for power was more important than a few thousand American lives. The Democrat Governor Cuomo was out to prove that they didn’t need Trump’s help, so instead of using the federal aid, he ordered nursing homes to accept the infected patients thereby contaminating the others in the homes and their care workers who in turn took it out into the public and to their homes.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that his state was still struggling to contain the coronavirus outbreak citing nearly 2,000 hospitalizations daily. Immediately after arriving from its home port in Norfolk, Virginia, the military’s floating lifesaver was adjusted to receive coronavirus patients. It had beds and staff waiting and ready but then only 71 of the USNS Comfort’s 500 beds became occupied. At the Javits center, with over a thousand beds available just about that many were treated during the entire operation. In contrast arae hospitals were screaming for relief. “We’re still backed up 50 deep in both adult and pediatric ERs,” said a hospital staffer at the time, taking a few seconds out of a busy shift to text The Post. “There’s no beds.” Beds and treatment were available and the Democrats said – NO.
Back in Washington, during a White House briefing Friday, President Donald Trump said the lack of patients on the ship showed that New York City was healing. “They didn’t need it, that’s a good thing. That’s such a good thing. I think that shows that New York’s making progress,” Trump said. His administration had no idea the devious tactic the Democrat Socialists were using to continue to slander the president.
Democrats Lied – People Died
Suddenly the death toll in New York exploded. Wanting to show they did not need the President’s help, they falsified the records. In a leaked recording of the governor’s top aide, Melissa DeRosa, admitting to Democrats in private conversations this week that the administration withheld the true data because it feared the Department of Justice would use the figures to pursue complaints of state misconduct and then President Donald Trump turns this into a giant political football.” What we start saying, this cover up was going to be used against us while we weren’t sure if there was going to be an investigation.” Reporting deaths to the Federal government in times of emergencies is vital. Covering up murder is another thing.
Mr. Biden’s FBI and federal prosecutors are investigating New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s coronavirus task force in the deaths of thousands of nursing home patients and a suspected cover-up of the truth. No doubt that the party and it’s minions will excuse these murders but realistically, in a country that follows the law, what crimes might have been committed?
The governor’s persistent and most vacuous excuse is that his decision was based on "President Trump’s CDC guidance." This is demonstrably false. Before Cuomo issued his fateful order, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a stern advisory that virus-infected patients must be isolated. "It is critical that long-term care facilities implement active measures to prevent introduction of COVID-19," it read. The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which regulates nursing homes, issued an almost identical advisory.
Are the Democrat Socialist party, with Andrew Cuomo as their point man legally responsible? Let’s begin with the obvious —obstruction of justice. If a government official falsifies or hides evidence to avoid triggering an investigation (or acts out of fear that such a probe may occur) that official is still culpable under the law of obstruction. If it is true that Cuomo’s top aide admitted to lawmakers that the state misrepresented the number of deaths in nursing homes to avoid having the data "used against us" in a Department of Justice probe. That appears to have been a confession to a potential obstruction charge. If there were others, including Cuomo, who knowingly participated in concealing the truth this could constitute a conspiracy to obstruct.
What about the crime of defrauding the government? Fraud is not limited to causing monetary loss or property damage. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that defrauding the government is also the act of interfering with "a lawful government function" such as investigations and the duty of a legislature to report truthful information to the public. If Cuomo or anyone in his administration provided false information to the New York State legislature or to any agency of the federal government by deceitful and dishonest means, then the government has been defrauded. Once again, the involvement of others in such a scheme or artifice would constitute a conspiracy to defraud the government.
New York Attorney General Letitia James offered the first evidence of allegedly falsified data when she revealed that Cuomo’s team under reported nursing home deaths by as much as 50 percent. According to the Associated Press, nearly 15,000 nursing home patients died from the coronavirus —not approximately 8,500 deaths.
Then came the stunning admission by Cuomo aide, DeRosa, in a private phone call with Democrat lawmakers that the numbers were doctored to shield against a federal investigation. Murder may be a stretch. Nevertheless, there is a provision in New York law whereby second-degree murder is defined as reckless conduct "which creates a grave risk of death to another person and thereby causes the death of another person." Involuntary manslaughter carries a similar reckless standard. Other definitions involve the intent to kill. Being arrogant, uncaring, and making dumb decisions are not enough under the law and do not rise to the legal requirement of intent.
It was obvious from the outset that the New York governor’s order was causing an appalling spike in nursing home deaths. Under pressure, he reversed himself and rescinded his directive on May 10, 2020, but it was too late. Thousands of healthy Americans had been exposed and died. Cuomo pressured nursing homes to accept patients who were infected and insisted that they "must comply." Parents, grandparents, and others died as a direct consequence. Cuomo’s malfeasance killed those who needed his help the most. They can now be counted as his victims.
This was completely a political decision made endorsed by the highest ranks of the party. New York State Assemblyman Ron Kim recently disclosed that Cuomo threatened to "destroy" him if he did not "cover up" for the governor. That, by itself, could be the subject of a separate obstruction of justice charge.
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Was point man Cuomo’s decision so wanton and reckless that it was foreseeable that vulnerable nursing home residents exposed to COVID patients would die by the thousands? It is too early to know whether federal prosecutors will bring criminal charges against Cuomo and/or his confederates for obstruction of justice, fraud, and conspiracy. But his attempt to cover-up his wrongful actions shows no signs of abating. Don’t be surprised when these deaths are minimized and the whole thing delayed and swept away quietly.
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