{"id":142696,"date":"2021-02-17T18:40:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T23:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=142696"},"modified":"2021-02-17T18:43:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T23:43:11","slug":"democrat-lawmaker-claims-governor-cuomo-threatened-to-destroy-him-over-nursing-home-criticisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-lawmaker-claims-governor-cuomo-threatened-to-destroy-him-over-nursing-home-criticisms\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Lawmaker Claims Governor Cuomo Threatened To \u2018Destroy\u2019 Him Over Nursing Home Criticisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrat-lawmaker-claims-governor-cuomo-threatened-to-destroy-him-over-nursing-home-criticisms%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=142696&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AC-2-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A Democrat New York state assemblyman claimed on Wednesday that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) threatened to \u201cdestroy\u201d him after the lawmaker criticized Cuomo\u2019s handling of the coronavirus pandemic as it related to the state\u2019s nursing homes.<\/p>\n<p>Assemblyman Ron Kim <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/02\/17\/politics\/cuomo-ron-kim-nursing-home\/index.html\">told<\/a> CNN that Cuomo called him last Thursday \u201cto threaten my career if I did not cover up for Melissa [DeRosa] and what she said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe tried to pressure me to issue a statement, and it was a very traumatizing experience,\u201d Kim said, adding that Cuomo also allegedly told him that \u201cwe\u2019re in this business together and we don\u2019t cross certain lines and he said I hadn\u2019t seen his wrath and that he can destroy me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Cuomo denied that the governor threatened to destroy Kim. Kim, who is in the far-left wing of the Democrat Party, has been one of the most vocal Democrat critics of Cuomo throughout the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation came after the New York Post reported that Cuomo\u2019s top aide allegedly admitted to New York Democrats that the governor hid data on nursing homes so that the Department of Justice would not find out.<\/p>\n<p>The Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/02\/11\/cuomo-aide-admits-they-hid-nursing-home-data-from-feds\/\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The stunning admission of a coverup was made by secretary to the governor Melissa DeRosa during a video conference call with state Democratic leaders in which she said the Cuomo administration had&nbsp;rebuffed a legislative request for the tally in August because \u201cright around the same time, [then-President Donald Trump] turns this into a giant political football,\u201d according to an audio recording of the two-hour-plus meeting. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In addition to attacking Cuomo\u2019s fellow Democratic governors, DeRosa said, Trump \u201cdirects the Department of Justice to do an investigation into us.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnd basically, we froze,\u201d she told the lawmakers on the call.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBecause then we were in a position where we weren\u2019t sure if what we were going to give to the Department of Justice, or what we give to you guys, what we start saying, was going to be used against us while we weren\u2019t sure if there was going to be an investigation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>DeRosa added: \u201cThat played a very large role into this.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Kim responded to the story by claiming that DeRosa\u2019s remarks sounded \u201clike they admitted that they were trying to dodge having any incriminating evidence that might put the administration or the [Health Department] in further trouble with the Department of Justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s how I understand their reasoning of why they were unable to share, in real time, the data,\u201d Kim said. \u201cThey had to first make sure that the state was protected against federal investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kim, whose uncle died from the coronavirus in April while living in a nursing home, said that Cuomo needed to show how \u201ccontrite\u201d he was \u201cto the public and the families\u201d over the debacle that unfolded in the state\u2019s nursing homes.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Democrat New York state assemblyman claimed on Wednesday that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) threatened to \u201cdestroy\u201d him after the lawmaker criticized Cuomo\u2019s handling of the coronavirus pandemic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181445,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AC-2-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Democrat Lawmaker Claims Governor Cuomo Threatened To \u2018Destroy\u2019 Him Over Nursing Home Criticisms","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AC-2-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Democrat Lawmaker Claims Governor Cuomo Threatened To \u2018Destroy\u2019 Him Over Nursing Home Criticisms","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}