Wednesday, October 27, 2021

27 October 2021: Cuomo's Latest Big Lie

Churchill: Cuomo has his own version of the Big Lie

Albany Times-Union columnist devastates a claim made by Andrew M. Cuomo's personal attorney on

During a press conference last week, Andrew Cuomo attorney Rita Glavin made a startling claim. Actually, she made a quite a few startling claims, but for now let's focus on just one.

"The report," Glavin said, referring to the sexual harassment investigation overseen by Attorney General Letitia James, "prejudiced the governor, overturned the election and disenfranchised 3.6 million votes."

Overturned the election? Disenfranchised voters? Goodness.

Readers, I hope you know that I'm a big fan of democracy and will do what I can to defend it. So when I heard about this apparent coup, I immediately went to work investigating the supposed malfeasance.

And after about ... checks watch ... three minutes of grueling research, I dug up a detail Glavin seems to have forgotten: Cuomo resigned.

There was no ouster or coup. No election was overturned. If voters were disenfranchised, it was the governor who did the disenfranchising when he, you know, QUIT HIS JOB.

Here's previous coverage of the claims on the timeline:

Fact check: TRUE. The timeline confirms Andrew M. Cuomo is a quitter.

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