7 March 2022: Cuomo Attempts to Sway Future Civil Lawsuit Jurors with "Cancel Culture" Speech

Cuomo complains ‘cancel culture’ and dirty politics ruined his career in speech at NYC church

The latest phase of Andrew M. Cuomo's attempts to sway New Yorkers who will sit on the juries that decide the multiple civil lawsuits he will face over the allegations of sexual harassment took place as Cuomo spoke to a group at a Brooklyn Church on Sunday, 6 March 2022. Here's the story:

Defiant ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo turned a Brooklyn church appearance into a 25-minute gripe session Sunday in which he again blamed “cancel culture,” the media and “political sharks” driving him out of office.

In his first public appearance since resigning last year, the accused serial sexual harasser whined about his explosive scandal to about 150 congregants at God’s Battalion of Prayer in East Flatbush, calling it “probably the toughest time of my life.”

But that's not what stood out in the speech:

During his speech, which prompted verbal affirmations from those gathered at the church, Cuomo groused incessantly about “cancel culture,” using the word “cancel” no fewer than 25 times....

Doing the math, in his 25 minute speech, Cuomo used the word "cancel" 25 times, which averages to one "cancel" per minute.

That's not something that happens by accident in a written speech. That's something written with the intent to influence public opinion when reported upon and repeated in the media. Since Cuomo is both unpopular with the voting public and lacks support from labor unions, it's not aimed at winning a public office. Instead, we think the portion of the public he's seeking to sway is the pool of potential jurors who will decide the outcome of the civil lawsuits being filed against him for sexual harassment by his alleged victims.

Getting back to the story, Cuomo's remarks have drawn a response from New York's state attorney general Letitia James' political campaign office, which issued its own written statement:

“Serial sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo won’t even spare a house of worship from his lies,” it said. “Even though multiple independent investigations found his victims to be credible, Cuomo continues to blame everyone but himself. Cuomo wasn’t railroaded; he quit so he wouldn’t be impeached. New Yorkers are ready to move forward from this sick, pathetic man.”

Perhaps resources of the New York's state attorney general's office should be focused on developing criminal cases against Andrew M. Cuomo related to the disastrous outcome of his deadly 25 March 2020 directive and its acknowledged cover-up. Cuomo has yet to face any real accountability for his actions that contributed to the excess deaths of hundreds, if not thousands of New York nursing home residents during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Update (9:00 PM EST): We added the words in boldface font above to better clarify the origin of the statement from Letitia James' campaign office, which we had incorrectly identified as having come from the state attorney general's office.