Giuliani's pardoned tax cheat friend slammed for claiming coronavirus 'hysteria' is manufactured to kill Trump's economy

Over the weekend, former New York City Police Commissioner and convicted felon Bernard Kerik took to Twitter to assert that the coronavirus "hysteria" is being "created" to destabilize the economy and hurt President Donald Trump. He also suggested we should "quarantine" the media:

Kerik, a staple of the right-wing commentariat, headed up New York's police under Rudy Giuliani. He pleaded guilty to eight federal charges of tax fraud and false statements in 2009, and was sentenced to four years in prison — but was ultimately pardoned by Trump and excused from paying back the missing tax money.

Commenters on social media were not impressed with Kerik's conspiracy theory: