Chris Cuomo gets brutalized on social media for tweet about the crisis in Texas



CNN's Chris Cuomo was the latest recipient of Twitter's furious wrath after he wondered aloud if a Texas mayor should have resigned his office over comments about the state's energy crisis.

"Resign or apologize and learn and become a better leader?" said Cuomo in response to the story that incensed so many.

Tim Boyd wrote a Facebook post that excoriated Texans who were angry that the power grid had failed during a frigid winter storm. He resigned over the backlash that excoriated him for being insensitive to the plight of his fellow Texans.

Cuomo saw similar opprobrium over the worsening scandal engulfing his brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

"I don't disagree, but considering the trouble your brother is in right now, should you really be making a tweet like this?," one commenter responded.

The governor was heavily criticized for his order that sent coronavirus patients to be cared for at nursing homes in New York during the height of the pandemic spike in his state. Thousands would contract the virus and die as a consequence but Cuomo praised his administration's pandemic response and published a book about it.

Worse still, an aide to the governor admitted that they sought to hide nursing home data in fear that they would be investigated by the Department of Justice. Cuomo has since faced calls for his resignation over the damaging scandal.

"Your brothers policy killed TONS of people and you made light of it on CNN all last year," responded one detractor to the CNN host's tweet.

"Wait until Chris hears about the Governor of New York," said another.

"How many elderly New Yorkers died because of the decisions of your brother. Have you demanded his resignation?" asked another user.

"Have your brother step down first, you tone-deaf moron," said another critic.

On Wednesday the Cuomo administration confirmed that they were being investigated by the Department of Justice over the scandal.

Here's more on the Cuomo nursing home scandal:

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'Governor Cuomo is a SOCIOPATHIC LIAR': NY lawmaker calls for Cuomo's resignation over 'criminal' nursing home scandal



It's time for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to resign, New York Rep. Claudia Tenney (R) said in response to the recent "bombshell" reports that the governor hid the real coronavirus death toll in New York state's nursing homes.

"Governor Cuomo is a sociopathic liar," Tenney told BlazeTV host Andrew Wilkow during an interview Friday. "He's been the governor for 11 years. I've called him out to resign recently for this issue — I've called him to resign for many other abuses of power that he has exhibited on a number of issues throughout his term as governor, but this is particularly egregious."

Tenney said she had asked former Attorney General William Barr to look into nursing home deaths in New York as early as March 2020, after a nursing home resident contacted her to report that COVID-positive patients were being moved from hospitals into nursing homes.

She also talked about the recent reports that Cuomo's secretary, Melissa DeRosa, admitted that the administration intentionally hid data on the coronavirus death toll in nursing homes out of fear that the true numbers would "be used against us" by federal prosecutors.

"Now this cover-up has become a crime," Tenney said. "It could very much be at least criminal negligence, what the governor has done."

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