{"id":32127,"date":"2020-10-16T16:28:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T20:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=32127"},"modified":"2020-10-16T16:32:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T20:32:06","slug":"32127","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=32127","title":{"rendered":"Cuomo&#8217;s a &#8216;Thug&#8217; &#8212; President Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Trump Calls Cuomo &#8216;Thug,&#8217; Ruined New York<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnapisec.kaltura.com\/p\/2216081\/sp\/221608100\/embedIframeJs\/uiconf_id\/45521831\/partner_id\/2216081?iframeembed=true&amp;playerId=kaltura_player_1602720818&amp;entry_id=1_5b1lmjb6&amp;flashvars[streamerType]=auto\" width=\"560\" height=\"395\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By Eric Mack | NEWSMAX<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Andrew Cuomo has not only &#8220;ruined&#8221; New York, &#8220;probably the worst-run state&#8221; in the U.S., but the Democrat is a &#8220;thug&#8221; for weaponization of prosecutors, deflection on COVID-19 deaths, and &#8220;bully&#8221; shutdown tactics, President Donald Trump told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newsmaxtv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newsmax TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With what&#8217;s going on in New York, it&#8217;s so sad, Greg,&#8221; Trump told Wednesday&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsmaxtv.com\/Shows\/Greg-Kelly-Reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greg Kelly Reports<\/a>&#8221; in an exclusive interview. &#8220;It&#8217;s so sad how they&#8217;ve ruined that place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump, once a proud New Yorker, also rejected the Democrats&#8217; lack of pandemic leadership, including New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. But Gov. Cuomo&#8217;s writing a &#8220;negative&#8221; book about his pandemic response \u2014 &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Crisis-Leadership-COVID-19-Pandemic\/dp\/0593239261\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1602710409&amp;sr=1-1&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=newsmedi9a-20&amp;linkId=JWQX7Q4SOSP2L6BP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic<\/a>&#8221; \u2014 when his state is worst in the country in COVID-19 deaths is revisionist history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He did a very poor job,&#8221; Trump told host Greg Kelly. &#8220;And a very sad thing: Thousands and thousands of people died unnecessarily. No. 1 in our nation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And then he wrote a book. I guess it&#8217;s a negative book. I don&#8217;t know. Who the hell&#8217;s gonna read it? But I guess he wrote a book and it&#8217;s negative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump noted Cuomo had previously praised the White House coronavirus task force for supplying New York state with ventilators, personal protective equipment, a Navy medical ship, and a makeshift hospital in New York City&#8217;s Javits Center.<\/p>\n<div id=\"dfpTV\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-0ec52459-0577-46a2-9371-53286d57bd57\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We gave him the hospital \u2014 we gave him the Javits Center \u2014 he could have put those patients in there, he never even used them,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;And he actually hardly used them, and we spent a lot of money helping him, and he&#8217;s very unappreciative.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, he&#8217;s a thug and he&#8217;s very unappreciative. It&#8217;s one of those things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump said Gov. Cuomo&#8217;s mismanagement has accelerated an out-migration of New Yorkers to lower-tax states like Florida \u2014 including Trump. Also, Trump noted, Gov. Cuomo is using selective prosecution in the state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s why people are leaving New York, because of people like him,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;He&#8217;s a thug; he&#8217;s a bully thug. And people don&#8217;t need it, because you have a lot of alternatives \u2014 like Florida, where everyone&#8217;s leaving for Florida. And it&#8217;s too bad because New York is always my place. It&#8217;s great. But you can&#8217;t have thugs running it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s got prosecutors all over the place. He uses them to his gain. And he should be prosecuted, frankly, for what he&#8217;s done. So it&#8217;s a very sad thing that&#8217;s happening in New York, when I see what&#8217;s going on, because I love New York.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Making an impassioned plea for votes in New York, Trump also added Cuomo is hurting New Yorkers by blocking a pipeline to the Northeast that would lower energy costs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know that Cuomo&#8217;s not letting us build a pipeline to the East Coast,&#8221; Trump told Kelly. &#8220;If he did that, your energy costs would go down by 50%. But he doesn&#8217;t want to do it for environmental grounds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump lamented that New Yorkers are owned at the ballot box and let down by Democrats and their failed leadership, &#8220;being mismanaged into oblivion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s sort of an automatic loss for Republicans, and it&#8217;s a shame,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;New York is one of the worst run states in the country. Probably the worst-run state in the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/newsmax-tv\/andrew-cuomo-new-york-thug-taxes\/2020\/10\/14\/id\/992000\/\">https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/newsmax-tv\/andrew-cuomo-new-york-thug-taxes\/2020\/10\/14\/id\/992000\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Calls Cuomo &#8216;Thug,&#8217; Ruined New York<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}