Joe Isuzu, Meet Andrew Cuomo

Does (C)M perhaps believe statements from Andrew Cuomo’s recent press conference make the legendary truth-stretching pitchman Joe Isuzu look like Honest Abe? Judge for yourselves:
 
“New Yorkers are doing a better job than any state in the United States of America (on COVID) — period.”
(New York still has twice as many deaths from COVID as any other state.)
 
"Donald Trump caused the COVID outbreak in New York. That is a fact. It’s a fact that he admitted, and the CDC admitted, and Fauci admitted.”
(None of these parties mentioned has come remotely close to admitting such a thing. In contrast, in April, Cuomo did admit, “We underestimated this virus. It's more powerful. It's more dangerous than we expected.")
 
“In mid-March the federal government does the travel ban from Europe. Too little too late, Mr. President.” 
(At the beginning of March, which probably was already "too late," Cuomo was still telling New Yorkers the general risk from COVID in the state "remains low.")
 
“Trump is actively trying to kill New York City. It’s personal…. now they won’t provide the federal funding to help repair the damage from the ambush they created.” 
(Among COVID assistance to New York already listed by the Administration as of April 24:

• dispatching a hospital ship, having the military convert the Javits Center into a hospital, and sending hundreds of military physicians and nurses into New York City hospitals 
• providing medical supplies and equipment including 12 million N95 respirators, 3 million surgical masks, 379,374 face shields, 313,810 surgical gowns, 8,060 coveralls, 3 million gloves, and 4,540 ventilators
• committing more than $20.3 billion in loans to 81,075 New York small businesses, $1.3 billion in Federal Emergency Management Agency aid, $28 million through the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, $76.6 million in CARES Act funding to 63 health facilities – not to mention $5.2 billion under the CARES Act’s Coronavirus Relief Fund.)

 
“(Trump) passed SALT (capping of state and local tax deductions), which was targeted just at New York City tax reform.”
(Oh? So it had nothing to do with the almost $80 billion in tax expenditures saved in year one? Or that the deduction was primarily used by upper-income taxpayers soaked by jurisdictions like New York, as earners above $100,000, representing 18% of filers, accounted for almost 80% of deductions?)
 
“He's refused to fund the extension of the Second Avenue Subway from 96th to 125th Street. Every prior administration has funded the Second Avenue Subway.”
(Actually, in the past, the President has signaled his support for the Second Avenue Subway, though no one has ever explained why virtuous telecommuters like (C)M living inexpensively in Florida should be called upon to fund billions in spending for New Yorkers. Mr. Cuomo is now seeking a further bailout from the ravages of his coronavirus lockdowns on the New York City transit budget, on top of the nearly $4 billion in CARES Act funding already received by the Metropolitan Transit Agency.)
 
“He won't rebuild the tunnels between New York and New Jersey that are dangerous. They're Amtrak tunnels.”
(It’s not “he,” meaning the President. The Federal Transit Administration ruled that the states had not shown they could come up with their share of the financing. A decision that seems more and more prescient given the "Luv Guv’s" perpetual begging for bailouts.)
 
“This weekend, they stopped FEMA funding from cleaning schools and trains.”
(Maybe because, as FEMA explained, operating schools and trains doesn’t qualify as “emergencies” for an agency also dealing with devastating hurricane and fire damage.)
 
“This is a war on cities: New York City, Portland, Chicago.”
(More of a war than the looters and criminals those cities’ mayors and state governors have allowed run wild?)