Former CNN host Chris Cuomo isn’t a fan of his former employer’s centrist move as he bashed the new direction on Kara Swisher’s new podcast released Monday.
“I don’t like the idea that they’re saying they’re going to be more middle ground,” Cuomo The first EpisodeOf “On With Kara Swisher” podcast. “I think a lot of people in the media like to see CNN go down because it was so powerful. And they tried to make that happen because I believe that that’s what our business is often about, is tearing things down as a negativity as a proxy for insight, but I don’t believe in middle ground.”
NewsNation’s host, also admitted that the shift was tied to “new ownership [who] had some reservations or concerns” about the organization’s messaging. Cuomo’s comments follow suspicion that billionaire media mogul John Malone, who happens to be one of Warner Bros. Discovery’s biggest stakeholders, was behind the cancelation of Brian Stelter’s “Reliable Sources.”
Cuomo prefers a middle way to compromise. “there’s left and right and then there’s reasonable and usually the three are very distinguishable from one another.”
On the other hand, though, the former host says he’s “always been nonpartisan,”Swisher did not mention that Cuomo is available. “spent years bashing Trump.”
“I gave then Donald Trump and then President Trump a fair hearing. If he said things that were demonstrably false, which he did frequently, I called it out because of how it erodes trust and it’s a crisis,” he said, calling out the misinterpreted reaction to Trump’s election lies in which some believe that “Fox defended him and CNN attacked him”You can find more information at “bulls— analysis.”
“I didn’t go after his kids and call names and all,”He continued, noting that Kellyanne Conway was his host and many more. “his people”His show. “I gave him his best case.”
Cuomo disapproves of Trump being pursued in this instance. “makes [him] a lefty,”He also noted that some people might view his criticisms of the left as an attack on them. “righty.” In reality, though, the host wants to scrap the two-party system all together after noting that it’s “killing us.”
“I want more parties,”He said. “I want rank choice voting. I want term limits in Congress, and I want electors apportioned by the states that matter. Is that right or left or is it reasonable? I want more parties. I don’t care about the left and the right. I think it’s killing us.”
Cuomo also shared his thoughts on the lawsuit against Trump recently brought forward by New York Attorney General Letitia James by questioning why criminal charges haven’t been pursued by the New York DA, SDNY or the IRS.
“He’s going to say you are victimizing him,”Cuomo spoke of Trump. “And we have to examine it very carefully, especially where Trump is involved. Because every time you swing and miss, it erodes confidence.”
If Cuomo was asked back if he would ever return to CNN, he said he is focused only on future pursuits. “I’m moving forward.”
