18 March 2022: Opinion - Creepy Andrew Cuomo Won’t Stop Gaslighting New Yorkers

Creepy Andrew Cuomo Just Can’t Stop Gaslighting New Yorkers

This opinion piece by the Daily Beast's Harry Siegel has the subhead "The man whose policies as governor created nursing home deaths he took pains to hide is up in arms about "social death penalty". The following excerpt contrasts Cuomo's idea of being subjected to a "social death penalty" with the actual death penalty Cuomo inflicted upon nursing home residents through his deadly 25 March 2020 directive and subsequent cover-up:

Having stepped down with $18 million in campaign funds still at his disposal, he’s running TV ads promoting himself and his decade as governor. He’s also giving speeches, with one Thursday as the guest of an infamously virulent homophobe. Before an audience including a former lawmaker expelled from the New York City Council for sexual harassment and ethics violations, the former governor decried a “cancel culture” he called “a social death penalty” and “modern day stoning.”

In addition to the $18 million in campaign funds, Cuomo left office with the $5.1 million he was paid for his since-pulped quickie book on the “Leadership Lessons” he supposedly provided while “leading” New York through a pandemic that killed nearly 70,000 New Yorkers. The death toll included thousands of nursing home deaths that resulted from his policies while he did his damndest to keep that information from coming out.

That was a death penalty, and not a “social” one.

But wait, there's more....

“When people die, it’s the No. 1 issue,” Cuomo said, about crime. It takes chutzpah for the governor for the last 10 years to say things are terrible because of the politicians.

It takes nerve for him to say that about “when people die” given the deaths on his watch from a virus that he kept trying to wish away, long after the threat was clear (again, sound familiar?). He just droned on about how “Worse than the virus right now is the fear pandemic“ and then, after finally acknowledging the danger, needlessly created deadly delays to bigfoot New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

As he goes about his gaslighting campaign, which we think is really aimed at influencing the potential pool of jurors who will decide the outcome of the civil lawsuits he expects to face, Andrew M. Cuomo is following both a PR and a legal strategy. Andrew M. Cuomo desperately needs better PR people and more legal help.