During Tuesday’s broadcast of “The View,” co-host Sunny Hostin repeatedly called Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) “Death-Santis” and said that he “handled COVID miserably.” Hostin’s comments came a few months after she praised New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) — who notoriously mandated that nursing homes accept COVID-19 positive individuals which resulted in the deaths of thousands of elderly Americans.
“I hope it’s not ‘Death-Santis,’” Hostin said as the co-hosts discussed who would be the 2024 Republican presidential nominee.
“I think it will be ‘Death-Santis,’ she said. “I hope it’s not ‘Death-Santis’ over in Florida because I think he’s a fascist, ‘Death-Santis.’ I think he handled COVID miserably. I think he’s a fascist and a bigot.”
Alyssa Farah Griffin questions whether Biden could defeat Trump head to head again — prompting Sunny Hostin to repeat "Death-Santis" over and over again. pic.twitter.com/LwStR1WwOh
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In February, Hostin praised disgraced New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who resigned after an investigation found that he had sexually harassed or assaulted at least 11 women. Hostin said that Cuomo did a “good job as governor, especially at handling the pandemic.”
Quickly after the beginning of the pandemic, Cuomo barred nursing homes from refusing admission to people who were currently infected with COVID-19.
In order to hide the thousands of nursing home deaths from his policy, Cuomo ordered his top aides to go as far as to rewrite a report from state health officials.
“The number — more than 9,000 by that point in June — was not public, and the governor’s most senior aides wanted to keep it that way,” The New York Times reported. “They rewrote the report to take it out, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The New York Times.”
Cuomo’s order to remove the true number of nursing home deaths from the state health officials’ report occurred as he was additionally forcing his staff to write his book on the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The extraordinary intervention, which came just as Mr. Cuomo was starting to write a book on his pandemic achievements, was the earliest act yet known in what critics have called a monthslong effort by the governor and his aides to obscure the full scope of nursing home deaths,” the Times added.
The book Cuomo ordered his staff to write under his name, titled “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic,” describes how Cuomo “was relentless in his pursuit of scientific facts and data.”
