After the hiring of Chris Cuomo to NewsNation, Dan Abrams is once again defending the channel, this time from what he calls “outrage” media who are threatened by the upstart network.
On his podcast, The Chris Cuomo Project, the newest member of the NewsNation team said the January 6th Committee hasn’t presented enough evidence to prove former President Donald Trump had committed a crime.
“One liberal commentator said ‘Cuomo was willing to lay low for all of a few months — now he’s back with a podcast and interviews in which he defends trump and demands America move on from January 6,” Abrams said. “Another said ‘Chris Cuomo was a liberal who got rejected by his fellow liberals. So now he’s moving to the right to try to find a new constituency.’ It couldn’t be that he believes it — and I will say that on this subject, I largely agree with him.”
Abrams then said Cuomo had also been slammed by conservative media members for his belief that Trump hadn’t been proven guilty, showing a clip from Jesse Watters of Fox News.
“So what does Chris Cuomo believe?”, Watters questioned. “We don’t know. Seems like he changes his opinion depending on who is paying him.”
Abrams then pointed out grievances aired by Newsmax host John Bachman after Cuomo’s hiring. Bachman shared skepticism that Cuomo is “neither a Republican or Democrat” and pointed out that Abrams himself worked at MSNBC.
“You got me. I worked at MSNBC… up until 2008,” Abrams said. “You know who else worked at MSNBC back in the day? Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham. And did you know that Cuomo worked at Fox News at one point? What does this all prove? It’s just a dumb thing to say.”
The defense of the network’s position of neutrality by Abrams comes at the same time the Nexstar-owned group is reportedly in discussions with conservative pundit Bill O’Reilly to become a contributor to the cable outlet.
