Footage from a contentious Congressional hearing last year shows Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene outright accusing former Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo of murder to his face while discussing his management of the COVID-19 pandemic. MTG slammed his directive during the height of the pandemic to send elderly COVID patients back to nursing homes.
Pulling out receipts of Cuomo’s past comments, MTG began, “I’d also like to remind you of statements that you made on April 13, 2020, on The Howard Stern Show. You said, and I quote, ‘Trump has delivered for New York.’ He has, and then you talked about Trump sending the ship, the comfort ship. Mind you that the comfort ship was sent to New York on March 30, 2020.”
Greene proceeded to slam Cuomo’s initiative to return the patients to the nursing homes, a move that has been the subject of much controversy over the years, arguing that it was murder. “That was just a few days after you signed the directive to put COVID-19 patients into nursing homes on March 25 which led to the murdering people’s parents, grandparents and great grandparents,” the Georgia Republican said.
Doubling down on this assertion, Greene continued, “Yes, murdering them today, you said, and I’ll quote you, you said that high deaths in nursing homes is a conspiracy theory. Would you like to turn to the people here in this room today whose mothers died and their fathers died in these nursing homes, and call them conspiracy theorists?”
MTG continued as she and Cuomo began to talk over each other, “Do you have the audacity to do that? You said that today. You’re under you’re under oath. There is video of all of your words today. I know you can be fact-checked. We’ll do that when this is over. Yeah, you also blamed staff for spreading COVID in nursing homes, not COVID patients. You blamed the staff.”
As Cuomo tried to interject, MTG shut him down, stating, “I didn’t ask you a question. I’m talking to you … on March 25 you signed a directive to put COVID 19 patients into nursing homes.” Further criticizing his leadership decision, Greene said, “On March 30, President Trump set the comfort ship, and you did not put COVID patients in the comfort ship. You didn’t send them to the Javits Medical Center that President Trump had built, which was a field hospital. You didn’t send them there.”
Hammering this point, Greene asserted, “You put them in nursing homes, which is murder. That’s not no, that’s murdering people. I’m saying that right now. And I’m also saying what a lot of people believe, what your actions did.” She later said, “Now today, you have come before the American people in our committee, you have insulted many people, including people in this room and people watching this hearing who lost their loved ones because of your march 25 directive.”
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Watch Greene sound off on Cuomo about his COVID-19 pandemic leadership as Governor below:
Note: The featured image is a screen shot from the embedded video.