Adversity reveals character and it also tends to reveal the level of wisdom and maturity that a person has achieved in life. Right now, 63-year-old Andrew Cuomo is coming up short in all three categories. Whereas he was a hero one year ago, the anti-Trump, providing the example of leadership during the pandemic that was conspicuously absent from Washington, today Cuomo seems hell bent on dragging himself down to Donald Trump’s level, with cries of “cancel culture” and victimhood by the establishment.
The latest development in Cuomo’s personal #MeToo chapter, is that everybody’s a liar and he’s just fine. Daily Beast:
“I never grabbed anyone, I never abused anyone, I never assaulted anyone, and I never would,” Cuomo said Friday. […]
As the walls closed in on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday with dozens of Democratic lawmakers calling for him to go, he invoked a new defense to accusations of sexual harassment: It’s cancel culture.
“Politicians who don’t know a single fact but yet form a conclusion and then [an] opinion are, in my opinion, reckless and dangerous,” he said during a phone briefing on coronavirus. “That, my friends, is politics at its worst. People know the difference between playing politics, bowing to cancel culture, and the truth.”
So now you know. Cuomo is just fine, he’s just part of a conspiracy — a Deep State one, we guess — just like the former guy. The difference for Cuomo is that if he was a Republican, he would be being ignored by the other members of his party and encouraged to ride it out. Being a Democrat is a different proposition.
Pressure for him to resign reached fever pitch on Friday, with almost half of all state Democrats and the majority of New York’s congressional Democrats calling for him to go. State Sen. Mike Gianaris told NBC New York that the entire Democratic state Senate delegation wanted him out.
A sixth accuser’s claim this week of being groped by Cuomo last year in the governor’s mansion galvanized efforts to push him out. The complaint was referred to Albany police, and prompted state lawmakers to open a rare impeachment inquiry.
What Cuomo is displaying here is a Trump-sized ego. He refuses to be thwarted, even when common sense and decency demand that he step down. Evidently, he can’t. It looks like he’s just another trust fund baby, to the manor born, who simply cannot handle being accountable for his shortcomings or his wrong doings. This is going to only get uglier. Denial of the obvious is never a good defense, and somebody who is in a position of power, such as governor of a huge state like New York, taking advantage of that power in the first place and then lying about it, is a terrible legacy. But apparently it’s the one Cuomo is choosing.
Sorry, but I believe in innocent until proven guilty. This is just too coincidental to believe. Trump’s taxes get in the hands of Manhatten DA Cy Vance and all of a sudden all these women start coming out of the woodwork?? 45 definitely does not want Cuomo in office, he could buy a pardon from probably anyone else!! I think they should check out the women also!!
Sorry that you’re getting your news from unreliable sources.
Cuomo has apparently had problems for years – NY’s state government is apparently full of this stuff – but until this year he was able to skate. Now there are SEVERAL reliable sources, AKA women he propositioned/groped, telling all, AND at least one investigation.
Thank you for filling in the gaps.
Interesting thought. I wouldn’t put it past 45 to do something like this out of pure spite, because Cuomo made him look bad during over handling Covid. At the same time, all of these women saying this is pretty compelling.
45 ain’t in office, and Cuomo had a rep in NYS already.
As a previous commentator mentioned, we should always assume innocence before proven guilt — even for that guy that we endure 4 years of misery from … That said, with all the things Cuomo seems to have done wrong with the nursing home and now these allegations, what this certainly does reveal is that petulance is not a virtue.
I am not saying he is innocent or guilty. I just want to know exactly what should an innocent person do? Deny, the same thing a guilty person does, right? That said, we can look at the quality of the denial. Does it contain tacit admission ala “she’s not my type?” Or is the denial full of red-faced histrionics, like Kavanaugh’s? I listened to Cuomo’s denial. It is calm enough but too long-winded. Biden’s brief calm denial rang true.