'SURE DIDN'T HELP'
CNN host Chris Cuomo links Herman Cain’s coronavirus death to President Trump’s rally in Tulsa
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo has seemingly linked the coronavirus death of Herman Cain to President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Oklahoma last month.
The host of Cuomo Prime Time on Thursday night that the rally, , is where Cain contracted the .
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and former CEO of a major pizza company, at the age of 74.
He was hospitalized less than two weeks after attending the rally in Oklahoma, .
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During his opening monologue, said: "The virus is rapidly swallowing us. All colors, all stripes, all creeds. It just took a former , Herman Cain.
"Yes, he supported the president. The president says he was a good friend of his.
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“We wish his family well and we wish that he rest in peace and I wish this president have no peace until he thinks about what he's exposing people to."
Cuomo went on to say that “didn’t even mention that Mr Cain was at his rally among the maskless masses right before he was diagnosed.
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"Now, maybe he didn't get it there. Sure, as hell didn't help," Cuomo said. "He fell ill not long after that rally in June, the one in .
"You see him not wearing a mask. How many lives do we have to lose, how many have to be sick, how many have to have their lives changed?"
A photo of Cain taken at the rally last month showed him not wearing a mask who were also not wearing face coverings.
A statement on his Twitter account said he tested positive for the virus on June 29, and was hospitalized on July 1 because his symptoms got worse.
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Trump on Thursday said he spoke with Cain’s family and offered his condolences following the death.
During a later press conference, Trump told reporters of Cain: “He was a very special person … and unfortunately he passed away from a thing called the China virus.”
For months, as Wuhan is the world epicenter of the virus.
“We send out prayers to Herman’s great wife, Gloria … And I have to say, America grieves for all of the 150,000 Americans that had their lives taken by this horrible, invisible enemy.”
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On Friday, Trump said he didn’t think Cain caught the virus at his Tulsa rally.
“No, I don’t think he did,” he told reporters at the .
to attend his rally last month, but only thousands did so.
Hours before the event was set to begin, for the virus — a number that .
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after two of their agents or officers has tested positive for the virus.
In the weeks following the rally, Oklahoma health officials reported record virus numbers.
Herman Cain wearing no mask at the Tulsa rally that didn't have social distancing
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On July 15, .
Stitt, a Republican who supports Trump, has resisted any statewide mandate on wearing masks and rarely wears one himself.
“We respect people’s rights … to not wear a mask,” he said this month. “You just open up a big can of worms.”
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