White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany took it to CNN “journalist” Chris Cuomo after the latter mocked President Donald Trump for taking hydroxychloroquine as a preventative measure against coronavirus.
It turns out, Cuomo actually took a form of the drug during his own treatment for the virus.
According to his wife’s blog posts regarding her husband’s treatment, Cuomo took “potentized quinine,” a synthetic derivative of chloroquine according to CNN Health, and something she called a “natural antibiotic.”
McEnany called Cuomo out for actually taking a “less safe version.”
This takedown of Chris Cuomo is one for the record books:@PressSec exposes that Cuomo is a complete hypocrite for going after Trump’s use of hydroxychloroquine when Cuomo himself took a LESS SAFE version of the drug after he tested positive for COVID-19.
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) May 20, 2020
McEnany in Beast Mode
At a White House press briefing Wednesday, McEnany addressed a question regarding the use of hydroxychloroquine and attempted to set the record straight on criticisms, particularly from Cuomo. “You had Chris Cuomo saying the president knows that hydroxychloroquine is not supported by science, he knows it has been flagged by his own people and he’s using it,” McEnany railed.
“Cuomo mocked the president for this,” she continued. “It turns out that Chris Cuomo took a less safe version of it called quinine, which the FDA removed from the market in 2006 because it had serious side effects, including death. So really interesting to have that criticism of the president.”
That’s when she moved in for the kill, suggesting Cuomo speak to his brother Andrew, governor of New York, who had several on-the-record positive statements about hydroxychloroquine.
HOLYYYYYYYYY @PressSec just ENDED Chris Cuomo’s entire career.
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) May 20, 2020
Cuomo’s Own Hoax
This is an incredibly rewarding takedown by McEnany, especially in context with little Fredo’s “fake” stunt he and CNN pulled showing him emerging from his basement quarantine following a coronavirus diagnosis. Fox News host Tucker Carlson blasted Cuomo for the fake news story. “CNN, shameless cheese balls that they are celebrated by filming Cuomo rising like a buff cable news Lazarus from the grave and back into ordinary life,” Carlson mocked.
Video (1/2): @TuckerCarlson took an absolute blowtorch to Fredo @ChrisCuomo for having “risen from the dead” and having “seize[d] every chance to remind everyone watching that he was sick and in very strict containment” when, in fact, it was all LIES but Cuomo and CNN didn’t care pic.twitter.com/DBkSXgU7TJ
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 22, 2020
Video (2/2): @TuckerCarlson turns up the heat on Fredo @ChrisCuomo for acting like a “buff cable news Lazarus” when he’s instead filled with “narcissism.” With help from “shameless cheeseballs” at CNN, they created a scandal by demanding we stay locked in while he roams #Tucker pic.twitter.com/GLgE9hHa2n
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 22, 2020
Nobody should take this man seriously—whether it involves “cheesy” skits like this or what he considers fair criticism of the president.
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