Is This That ‘Additional Information’ That Finally Got Chris Cuomo the Boot? – Opinion

CNN indicated in a statement that they had fired anchor Chris Cuomo when, in the process of their review, “additional information” came to light.

Statement on Chris Cuomo’s termination from CNN. pic.twitter.com/yKPwYtMznD

— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) December 4, 2021

“Despite the termination, we will investigate as appropriate,” CNN said.

So what’s the “additional information” about which that they are talking? Brian Stelter claimed he didn’t know what it was when he spoke about the firing yesterday on Jim Acosta’s show and acted like they just discovered the ethical problems with Cuomo’s actions. I don’t believe for a second that Stelter doesn’t know what the additional information is.

The problem with CNN’s statement is that there are so many things that the “additional information” could be because there were so many things that were done wrong in this matter and should have gotten Cuomo terminated.

We noted how there had been a report of Chris Cuomo involving his CNN staff in the effort to dig up dirt on Andrew Cuomo’s accusers. If that’s true, he should have been canned long ago and CNN is going to be dragged further into the Andrew Cuomo investigations.

But it turns out there’s still more.

Chris Cuomo has been accused by former coworker of sexual misconduct. That person’s lawyer contacted CNN on Wednesday to notify them about the allegation.

The woman who leveled the unknown accusations against Chris Cuomo, 51, was a former “junior colleague” at another news network, according to Debra Katz, the accuser’s lawyer, the paper said. According to reports, the allegation wasn’t connected with the series of allegations that caused Andrew Cuomoo to resign in protest of being impeached four months earlier. [….]

“Based on the report we received regarding Chris’s conduct with his brother’s defense, we had cause to terminate,” CNN told The Times. “When new allegations came to us this week, we took them seriously, and saw no reason to delay taking immediate action.”

Katz said her client came forward because of Chris Cuomo’s statements on-air about sexual harassment allegations, “I have always cared very deeply about these issues, and profoundly so. I just wanted to tell you that.” So basically he got burnt because of his effort to spin how much he “cared.”

This isn’t the first allegation against Chris Cuomo. Shelley Ross worked as a producer at ABC News and said in September that Cuomo touched her indecently in 2005 at a party. He grabbed her buttocks. What’s the kicker? The kicker?

CNN realized that the news about Cuomo was too important to delay and that it was time for them to stop covering the story. They couldn’t keep it under wraps. They should have left him behind and already proved that they were not credible when they allowed him to use their network in order to defend and promote his brother during the scandal at a nursing home which resulted in thousands of deaths. Now they need to come clean on what the staff may have done in this case regarding Andrew Cuomo’s accusers. They can’t just cut Chris loose and hope that no one will ask about that anymore.