Adoring media served as protective cloak for Cuomo’s COVID lies

News that Gov. Cuomo’s office had radically understated the number of COVID-19 deaths in New York nursing homes last year deflated his media image as a straight-talking teller of home truths. Now The Post has reported that the governor covered up the extent of the problem specifically because his office didn’t want President Trump to “turn this into a giant political football” by instructing the Department of Justice to investigate Cuomo’s handling of the situation.

In other words, Cuomo buried evidence and impeded a federal investigation, hoping a new ­administration would leave him alone.