CNN has indefinitely suspended Prime Time host Chris Cuomo because of his role in advising his brother, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, during the sex-assault and harassment scandal that ended his political career.
It appears that Chris Cuomo’s career might well be sleeping with the fishes, too, now that the Empire State’s attorney general has disclosed what everyone already knew, or at least suspected.
Fredo, as he is known, tried to stage-manage his brother from behind the curtain. He not only wrote statements to polish his brother’s soiled image, but also sought information about Handsy Andy’s accusers from other journalists.
The scandal is yet another black eye for the hate-Trump network and its hate-Trump hitman, who spent four years denouncing the 45th president for his putative moral failings. Now we know that Cuomo, behind the mask of a journalist, doubled as a torpedo for his big brother.
Wrote Statements For Guv
As The New American reported yesterday, Fredo was what one might call a consigliere to Cuomo Family Boss Andrew.
New York’s attorney general released text messages between the governor’s underboss, Melissa DeRosa, and the younger Cuomo. He offered detailed advice on handling his brother’s sex scandal, which spun out of control as a parade of women lined up to lodge accusations.
One example: Charlotte Bennett. Bennett said Cuomo “terrified” her. He was particularly interested in discussing her past as a sex-abuse victim. Cuomo told the young woman that he considered any woman over 22 a possible paramour.
Understandably, the sleazy come-on repulsed the young woman. And she was just one target of Cuomo’s unwanted, hamfisted affections. At least 11 women accused Cuomo of sex monkeyshines, including a flood victim whom Cuomo kissed in a “highly sexual manner.” He wrecked one woman’s relationship with her boyfriend by tricking her into thinking he, Cuomo, cared about her.
The governor, another said, was a master of “penis politics.”
Thus did Fredo step in to handle matters with detailed advice and proposed statements for the disgraced governor.
“Please let me help you with the prep,” Cuomo wrote in a text to DeRosa. “You need to trust me,” he wrote later, and “we are making mistakes we can’t afford.”
The text messages also show that he tried to dig up dirt on Cuomo’s accusers.
So Fredo fibbed a little in August when he said he did not really advise his brother too much, and only defended him on his Prime Time gabfest because “I’m his brother.”
He’s called Fredo, many observers joke, because he, like Fredo in the Godfather franchise of books and films, is the weak, stupid brother. And right about now, he’s probably saying some Hail Marys in the hope of salvaging his career.
“Veteran ‘Journalist’” Suspended
Yesterday, CNN leftists Oliver Darcy and Brian Stelter reported that the hate-Trump network had suspended Cuomo “indefinitely, pending further evaluation.”
“The New York Attorney General’s office released transcripts and exhibits Monday that shed new light on Chris Cuomo’s involvement in his brother’s defense,” a CNN spokesperson said:
The documents, which we were not privy to before their public release, raise serious questions. When Chris admitted to us that he had offered advice to his brother’s staff, he broke our rules and we acknowledged that publicly. But we also appreciated the unique position he was in and understood his need to put family first and job second.
However, these documents point to a greater level of involvement in his brother’s efforts than we previously knew.
Like his movie namesake, Fredo was “emotional” when he met with the show’s staff, Darcy and Stelter reported.
“The idea of one reporter calling another to find out about what’s coming down the pipe is completely business-as-usual,” he told investigators who conducted the probe of his brother:
When Andrew Cuomo resigned as governor in August, Chris Cuomo told CNN viewers that he was “not an advisor,” but “a brother.” He acknowledged that he talked with his brother’s aides and gave his “take” until CNN told him to stop doing so in May.
The Cuomo Prime Time anchor also said on the air in August, “I never attacked nor encouraged anyone to attack any woman who came forward. I never made calls to the press about my brother’s situation.”
Monday’s revelations cast some doubt on his statement about his interactions with the press.
“I would — when asked, I would reach out to sources, other journalists, to see if they had heard of anybody else coming out,” Chris Cuomo said during testimony.
Chris Cuomo also said under oath what he told CNN viewers earlier this year: That he “never influenced or attempted to control CNN’s coverage of my family.”
During the questioning, he reiterated that sentiment, saying, “If I had tried to influence any of the reporting at CNN or anywhere else, I guarantee you people would know, and so would a lot of others.”
CNN defended Cuomo in May and claimed he was not involved in the leftist network’s coverage of his brother.
Other Scandals
CNN has protected the mega-wealthy “journalist” despite his involvement in one embarrassing scandal after another.
In September, he was forced to apologize for sexually harassing a producer when he was at ABC, and last year, stricken with the China virus, he threatened a cyclist on Long Island who had called him out for violating his brother’s quarantine order.
Two years ago, he threatened to beat up a bar patron who called him Fredo, and also enjoyed priority China Virus testing thanks to his powerful brother.
None of that convinced the network to jettison Cuomo. Though the network appears headed in that direction now, he might just get back on the air before we know it.
Disgraced pervert Jeffrey Toobin returned to CNN as its chief legal analyst in June, eight short months after he was caught masturbating on Zoom.
