Chris Cuomo Blasts Trump AND Morning Joe Hosts While Explaining His Own Call with the President-Elect: ‘I Wasn’t Doing a Joe and Mika’
NewNation’s Chris Cuomo took a swipe at MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski and defended speaking with President-elect Donald Trump after he was grazed by a bullet at a July campaign rally on Tuesday.
On The Chris Cuomo Project, the host touched on the stories of 2024 that he found to be the most compelling. Cuomo spoke at length about Trump’s being grazed by a bullet on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the reaction to it by the media.
He also explained he shelved his own beef with Trump two months later out of “humanity.”
In September, when a man was arrested over an alleged plot to kill Trump on a Florida golf course. Cuomo made news when he told his NewsNation audience he called Trump to talk.
On Tuesday, the host defended the call, expounded on why he made it, and twice swiped at the Morning Joe hosts over their controversial meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the 2024 election.
“That assassination – that’s why I called him,” Cuomo said. “But I wasn’t doing what Joe and Mika did. I’m not looking to make up with Trump.” Cuomo continued:
He came at me personally, called me an enemy of the state. He compromised my kids, compromised my wife. I had to move them because of what his supporters were doing, because I am not in good enough control of myself physically to let someone come and insult my kids or my family and think I’m not going to try and do something to them. That’s on him, he did that and I made him aware of it at the time, and he didn’t want anything but for me to be nice to him. And then we’ll see what happens if I’m nice to him. And that’s not going to happen. That’s my beef.
“I believe that Donald Trump has disqualified himself from office in this country with his behavior, words and deeds,” Cuomo added. “It doesn’t mean I’m not going to be fair to him as a journalist. And I think I’ve been as fair or more than most. You don’t like it? I get it. I get it. But that’s the job I called him to say, ‘I am sorry that people in the media are playing this down like it didn’t really happen to you, or that it’s not that big a deal. That sucks. And I feel for your family and your grandkids. I don’t know how you’re dealing with it right now. I don’t know how they’re letting you stay in the race.'”
Cuomo concluded:
I don’t know how he stayed in the race. I would have never stayed in it. Incredibly brave what he did in that moment. And no, I don’t like how he uses his power. Well, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. I’ll see what happens here. It doesn’t serve me not to. But that’s why I did it. I wasn’t doing a Joe and Mika. Going down there trying to kiss his ass so that I could get access. I don’t give a shit if I have access. I think News Nation should. I think he’s making a mistake. The only real home for independent critical thinkers in the media. But that’s on him. I don’t care if it’s with me. That’s the truth. I reached out to him because I thought that this was a moment that demanded humanity, and it wasn’t receiving it.
Watch above via The Chris Cuomo Project.
