Andrew Cuomo on nursing home deaths – not his fault …

After the “Luv Guv” and desirable “bachelor” was fawned over by ABC’s Amy Robach and CBS’s Jane Pauley, it was actually MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle on Monday who pressed him on his controversial nursing home executive order.

She directly asked him to take responsibility for shuffling COVID-positive patients into nursing homes, with catastrophic results:

Governor, House Republicans are looking into New York’s March 25th order that directed nursing homes to take in infected patients. This thing is not going away, sir. 6,300 people died in New York nursing homes. That’s the most in this country. The more time has passed, the more your office has been able to look into this. Do you take responsibility for that order and the role it may have played in those deaths? 

But Cuomo just claimed this was a political game concocted by Republicans. However, there has been a bipartisan effort by New York’s state legislature to hold hearings on the nursing home issue as well. Ruhle at first didn’t let him downplay the scandal which he tried to cover up:

CUOMO: Yeah, the Republicans, Stephanie, are playing politics. They don’t want to talk about how —

RUHLE: Sir, these are lives. These are people’s parents’ lives. 

CUOMO: Yes, I understand that. And there are facts also, Stephanie. So let’s look at the facts, right, rather than the political rhetoric. Yes, we had more people die in nursing homes than anywhere else. Because we had more people die. Because the federal government missed the boat and never told us that this virus was coming from Europe and not from China.