“I don’t care if he sleeps with escorts. He was smart.”

Watters referenced Spitzer during Wednesday’s broadcast of the network’s popular afternoon panel show “The Five,” during a conversation about Hochul’s refusal to reinstate medical professionals who were fired for failing to comply with vaccine mandates even though the state has since dropped the mandates. …

“She doesn’t know that vaxxed and unvaxxed can still transmit the virus? She doesn’t know that, and she’s the governor?” Watters asked. “I mean, what an idiot. Let’s say I go into the ER with a gunshot wound, and I’m bleeding out, you think I care if the nurse is unvaxxed? I think bullets are more dangerous than the ‘rona virus.”

Watters went on to tie in bail reform and the state’s still-rampant crime problem, saying, “We’re [more] afraid of people getting shot than we’re afraid of COVID at this point.”

That was when he suggested New Yorkers might fare better under the leadership of former Governor Spitzer, saying, “I don’t care if he sleeps with escorts. He was smart.”