Sounds like the knives are now really out for him.
Love to see it, probably the best politics news story of 2021 so far (though I think Newsome losing a recall, and whatever feeding frenzy event triggers the Biden resignation/retirement will give it a run for the money).
Love to see it, probably the best politics news story of 2021 so far (though I think Newsome losing a recall, and whatever feeding frenzy event triggers the Biden resignation/retirement will give it a run for the money).
Quote:
The NYT put a metaphorical muzzle to the back of the head of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Saturday in pulling off a political assassination through its reporting on the allegations of a 25-year-old former aide to the Governor.
A massive 2500 word story appeared on the newspaper's website on Saturday afternoon with on-the-record statements from a second former aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo stating that the Governor had made clear his interest in having a sexual relationship with her, leading her to resign in November 2020.
The details of her story are set forth below. But as for Cuomo, here is all you need to know in order to understand how his career is now going to end:
Charlotte Bennett is 25. Andrew Cuomo is 63.
His interest in having a sexual relationship with Bennett became animated after she told him about a speech she was going to give at her alma mater in which she would describe having been sexually assaulted in college.
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This is Pornhub territory. Bennett tells Cuomo a story about being a survivor of sexual assault, and he can't stop repeating a line underscoring what was clearly a traumatic and painful memory for her evidencing HIS fixation on the event SHE lived through.
And then in a subsequent conversation, he begins to probe her with questions that signaled he was thinking "Hey, what about the idea of having sex with me?"
Take a moment to consider the thoughts that must have gone through Cuomo's mind in bed alone at night in the three weeks between the two conversations Bennett described.
"Andrew Cuomo 63-year-old creepy perve" is not exactly the kind of moniker you want to run for reelection behind.
This is a death blow to Cuomo in New York politics and makes it impossible for him to move to any meaningful position in the Biden Administration. The Times' treatment of this story 2500 words when 700 could have probably "reported" it is a signal to all who might be thinking about challenging Cuomo that the NYT will not be helping Cuomo. It tells all that the accumulation of damaging stories about Cuomo has now reached terminal status.
I suspect the Times has sources inside the Southern District of New York US Attorney's Office who have told the paper that there is legal exposure for Cuomo in connection with the withholding of accurate data on nursing home deaths from the Civil Rights Division of DOJ in the fall of 2020.
If true, this is a "mercy killing" meant to prompt whoever might believe themselves to be successors to Andrew Cuomo to step forward and make themselves known.
