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It’s not uncommon that people will speak their mind more when they aren’t under pressure to speak or behave a certain way. Chris Cuomo was disgusted with the Democrats’ January 6 committee, saying it was nothing more than a game of “gotcha”. He thought this was just theater and wouldn’t go anywhere, much like the Russian collusion investigation. He has a podcast and a new TV show this fall.
Cuomo can see it
And he’s at liberty to say something about it. He started off on his podcast “The Chris Cuomo Project”,
“January 6th was a dangerous event. People were hurt, it could have been so much worse. And it seems to be the result of planning and bad purpose. There were people close to Trump and in other states, pushing fraudulent electors, reportedly. As an extension of this, not wanting to accept the outcome of the election. We have to respect the rules or the rules are meaningless. Now, absolutely it is in your interest for what happened and by whom to be rooted out and remedied, there could be crimes, especially on this Fugazi elector front that we’re just learning about now.”
Cuomo continued, “I think around the planning and the practical aspects of what happened on January 6th, I don’t see that there’s criminality there, at least in what’s been offered. My question is, are we really learning enough about what matters or is this starting to play like a gotcha game? Like the impeachment. Again, not that the issues that were involved in impeachment don’t matter, but you knew you were never gonna have the outcome. The argument was ‘Well, but this is what we have to do. This is our job.’ I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know that that kind of fermenting of tension, that kind of protracted process, when you know you weren’t gonna remove the president, was that really in America’s interest, certainly debatable, certainly debatable.”
Cuomo thinks the committee is chasing its tail
All of this is likely to go nowhere.
“The outcome was never going to be what was desired. There’s no question, as with the Mueller probe, Trump and his cronies were doing bad things. Things they know they should not have been doing. And arguably that makes them lousy leaders. But getting Trump for treason, why even go there? They go there because it fuels the fringe aspects of the party. Collusion with Russian operatives. Yes. Collusion is behavior. It’s not a crime. The crime is conspiracy and it’s a distinction with a difference and they were nowhere near it. And it wasn’t ever gonna be prosecuted.”
When Cuomo got fired from CNN he lost his sense of purpose. Our jobs are often a purpose.
Cuomo is getting a new show
He’ll get a new show on NewsNation this fall which will be politically neutral. He thought those who watch cable news are to blame for the state of the industry.
“You can’t expect the men and women in the media to not play a game that everybody else is playing, You are watching because the game, you are allowing yourself to be put on teams or in tribes or any way you want to designate it. But they’re supposed to somehow break away from that when it’s what you want? When it’s what resonates with you? No.”
