Comer accuses Cuomo of knowing his COVID policies killed people in nursing homes

House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., alleged that former New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo knew that his 2020 COVID-19 policies were killing people in nursing homes, but that he wanted to build a heroic narrative around himself.

"It appears that Governor Cuomo grossly misled the public about nursing home deaths," Comer said in an interview to be aired Tuesday night on "Just the News, No Noise." "It appears that he knew in advance that some of these decisions he was making by putting people in nursing homes were killing people."

"Yet he wanted to have a narrative that he was the hero of COVID because he had published a book, and the mainstream media said he's the model of how to handle COVID," he continued. 

Cuomo is set to testify before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Tuesday about his administration requiring nursing homes and long-term care facilities to admit people with COVID-19.

Panel Chairman Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, said the former governor will face questions about his administration’s issuance of "unscientific guidance" that forced New York nursing homes and long-term care facilities to admit such patients.  

"This was another gross miscalculation, or lie.....whatever you want to call it, by the mainstream media about who the real heroes were during COVID," Comer said. "It was not Cuomo. He was a bad guy."