CNN’s Chris Cuomo blames President Trump for Herman Cain’s death, claiming that a lack of social distancing enforcement at a GOP campaign rally on June 20 likely killed the late businessman.
Two problems immediately present themselves.
First, it has not been established that the rally where Cain declined to wear a mask is where the late former Republican presidential candidate caught the virus. Secondly, Chris Cuomo, of all people, has no ground to scold anyone for eschewing established social distancing guidelines, considering the cable news host is the one who broke quarantine when he said he was sick with COVID-19.
“Why does Trump think he can do whatever he wants?” Cuomo asked Thursday evening. “Because he is a splendid marriage of ignorance and arrogance. It’s all about the me, zero about the we.”
Cain died this week from complications brought on by the coronavirus, the late businessman’s website announced Thursday morning. He tested positive a little over a week after he declined to wear a mask at a June 20 Trump rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is not clear yet whether Cain caught the disease at the BOK Center, or from any of the unmasked protesters who demonstrated outside, or whether he even contracted the virus in the state of Oklahoma, let alone Tulsa.
These details are apparently of no concern for Cuomo, who appeared maybe a little too eager Thursday evening to use Cain’s death as an occasion to assail the president.
“The virus is rapidly swallowing us,” the CNN host fearmongered Thursday. “All colors, all stripes, all creeds. It just took a former presidential candidate, Herman Cain. Yes, he supported the president. The president says he was a good friend of his. We wish his family well, and we wish that he rest in peace.”
Cuomo added, “And I wish that this president have no peace until he thinks about what he’s exposing people to. He didn’t even mention that Mr. Cain was at his rally among the maskless masses, right before he was diagnosed. Now, maybe, he didn’t get it there. Sure as hell didn’t help.”
Wait — if Cuomo concedes the point that “maybe” Cain “didn’t get” the virus in Tulsa, then what, exactly, is his point? Remember what I said earlier about the cable host being maybe a little too eager to attack the president?
“May Herman Cain rest in peace,” Cuomo went on. “He fell ill, not long after that rally in June. The one in Tulsa, Oklahoma. You see him not wearing a mask. The president doesn’t get it. And he dealt another blow to the rest of us today when he had to deal with the loss of one of his friends to coronavirus.”
He concluded, “The president said nothing about how the death changed how he feels about this pandemic. No sense of urgency.”
Speaking of people who think they can do “whatever” they want, who think it is all about “me,” and who clearly do not have a sense of “urgency” about the virus, CNN has yet to explain why it staged the moment when a supposedly COVID-free Cuomo emerged from his basement supposedly for the first time since he was diagnosed with the disease.
We all know he broke quarantine on April 12 to drive his family to East Hampton, New York, 30 minutes away from their home in Southampton. The CNN evening host got into an altercation with a cyclist who called him out for possibly spreading the virus. Cuomo himself inadvertently admitted to lying about his quarantine.
Tell us more about narcissists who place themselves before others.
