There is a school of thought at this publication, namely me, that we should set aside one column a day for bad news, good news for the nation, on either Andrew Cuomo or Gavin Newsom. Because a day doesn’t go by when one of these guys doesn’t take it in the shorts. Today is Fredo’s turn.

If there is such a thing as bayoneting a corpse, then covering Andrew Cuomo feels like that. Whether it’s the drip drip of ever increasing allegations of sexual harassment, the reporting of fake virus numbers, or the placing of Covid patients with vulnerable nursing home residents, Cuomo is a political dead man walking, regardless of his Nixonian quest to hang on to power. Now, a blockbuster WSJ piece displays how Cuomo officials coerced lower level officials to lie about Covid numbers in nursing home deaths.

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FNC: “Top advisers to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo influenced state health officials to remove data from a public report that showed coronavirus-related nursing-home deaths in the state had exceeded numbers previously acknowledged by the administration, a bombshell report says. Details about the July report were disclosed Thursday night in a story first published by The Wall Street Journal. The final report focused only on nursing-home residents who died inside those facilities and did not include nursing-home residents who were transferred to hospitals after becoming sick, the Journal reported. That means the state’s reported tally of 6,432 nursing-home resident deaths was significantly lower than the actual nursing-home death toll, sources with knowledge of the state report’s preparation told the newspaper. State officials now place the nursing-home and long-term-care facility death toll in New York at more than 15,000 residents, the Journal reported. The number represents deaths since March 2020 of residents confirmed to have contracted the coronavirus or presumed to have contracted it, the report said.”

“This is criminal,” Kim wrote on Twitter. “The Gov’s top advisors pushed state health officials to strip a public report of the data showing more nursing home deaths. The changes Cuomo’s aides made to the report reveal that they had the fuller accounting of NH deaths as early as the summer of 2020.”

Rep. Kim, a liberal Democrat, smells blood in the water and wants a piece of fresh. As Kissinger said, “It has the added benefit of being the right thing to do.”