9 July 2021: Cuomo Claims Pandemic Provided "Tremendous Personal Benefit"

After $5.1M book deal, Cuomo calls pandemic ‘tremendous personal benefit’

This report reveals Andrew M. Cuomo delivered surprisingly tone-deaf remarks on 8 July 2021. Here's an excerpt of his comments, bookended by relevant context:

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday called it a “tremendous personal benefit” to have led New York state amid the coronavirus crisis — during which he scored $5.1 million for his pandemic memoir.

In a speech to his fellow governors that was loaded with presumably unintentional double meanings, Cuomo told them that they all “have a new credibility.”

“Very few people were going through what we went through and we went through it together,” he said.

“And speaking for myself, it was a tremendous personal benefit.”

Cuomo’s controversial book deal is the subject of pending probes by federal and state officials who are also investigating his administration’s cover-up of the state’s nursing home death toll from COVID-19.

The remarks were almost certainly prepared and reviewed by members of Governor Cuomo's PR and legal team.