Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right.

George Orwell, he/his/him

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February 18, 2021

Cuomo-gate: a Nixonian scandal is engulfing New York

Amid demands for Cuomo to resign, the governor and his aides are frantically trying to cover up the facts of what happened

The biggest political scandal in America right now is playing out in New York, where Governor Andrew Cuomo is in a lot of trouble – and rightly so. The Democratic governor did not merely wildly mismanage his state's response to the Covid emergency, while netting himself a lucrative book deal and an Emmy. He did something worse.

In the middle of a public health emergency, he used his office to help one of his largest political donors shield itself from legal consequences as 15,000 nursing home residents died from Covid-19 – and then he and his administration underreported that death toll, helping the same donor.

Fact 1: Cuomo's machine raked in $2m from industry group

Fact 2: Cuomo helped industry group shield nursing home execs

Fact 3: Cuomo's corporate immunity law went national

Fact 4: Cuomo's immunity law endangered lives, according to the attorney general

Fact 5: Cuomo's top aide admitted withholding info

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