New York Democrat Assemblyman Ron Kim says he lost an uncle to COVID because of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s nursing home policy.
And thus, Kim has been an outspoken critic of Cuomo and his cover-up of deaths as a result of Cuomo’s COVID nursing home policy.
Well now he says that the Governor called him last week and threatened to “destroy” him if he basically didn’t shut him mouth.
The New York Post reports that Kim says:
"...he got a phone call from the fellow-Democrat governor on the night of Feb. 11 that quickly turned dark, with Cuomo ultimately warning, “You have not seen my wrath.”
The call came shortly after The Post exclusively reported how Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa admitted on a conference call with lawmakers that Cuomo’s administration withheld the true death toll among nursing home residents for fear it would be “used against us” by federal prosecutors.
“At first, there was a silence on the phone,” Kim said.
“Then the governor says, ‘Mr. Kim, are you an honorable man?’”
Kim, who had taken part in the Feb. 10 conference call with DeRosa and who lashed out at Cuomo over the cover-up in The Post article, said he was “in the middle of bathing my kids” when Cuomo called...
The conversation quickly turned medieval, Kim said, with Cuomo warning him, “You have not seen my wrath. I have been biting my tongue for months.”
“I can tell the whole world what a bad person you are and you will be finished,” Kim recalled Cuomo saying.
“You will be destroyed.”
Cuomo was so angry, Kim said, that “my wife could hear the governor yelling into the phone.””
During a press conference yesterday, Cuomo again attacked Kim, basically saying he was lying.
Kim put out a statement in response saying:
"The governor can smear me all he wants in an effort to distract us from his fatally incompetent management. But these facts are not going away because they are the facts – unacceptable faces that hold him accountable."