Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo slammed GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, saying that he decieved the American people on the threat of COVID-19 in 2020.

"I often vehemently disagreed with President Trump because from day one, he willfully deceived the American people [and] denied COVID was very real threat....telling us that it was like the flu and it would go away by Easter," he said.

Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Panel Chairman Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, slammed Cuomo over COVID-19 nursing home deaths.

"Governor, you own this," Wenstrup said during opening remarks. "It's your name on the letterhead. This is your directive. Whether you knew about it or not, you're the leader. The buck stops with you, or at least it should."

Wenstrup said that Cuomo's former commissioner of the Department of Health told the committee that Cuomo received a phone call from the Greater New York Hospital Association asking him to do something about nursing home residents that the hospitals wanted to be able to discharge. 

The commissioner testified that Cuomo said the patients had to go home, according to Wenstrup.

The former governor faces questions about his administration’s issuance of "unscientific guidance" that forced New York nursing homes and long-term care facilities to admit such patients.

Cuomo has previously testified different panels.