This article was published on 20 August 2022, but it seemed more appropriate to feature on the one year anniversary of Cuomo's official exit from the New York state government's Executive Chamber.
- Andrew Cuomo hiding ‘in shame’—but ‘plotting’ return to politics: sources
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This report describes how Andrew M. Cuomo has become something of a hermit.
In just one year, Andrew Cuomo has gone from being the most powerful governor in the country — and at one time the ubiquitous hero of the 2020 pandemic — to the most elusive fallen star in the Hamptons.
In just one year, Andrew Cuomo has gone from being the most powerful governor in the country — and at one time the ubiquitous hero of the 2020 pandemic — to the most elusive fallen star in the Hamptons.
Other sources said that any “shame” he may have stems more from the anger he feels about losing his job — unfairly he believes — and regret about not fighting for it harder. They also speculated it’s fueling Cuomo’s disappearance from the public eye.
“He won’t show his face anywhere,” a longtime Hamptons insider who knows the Cuomo family said last week. “Chris [Cuomo’s disgraced younger brother] is out and about all the time. Matt Lauer did grosser things and you see him around all the time. But not Andrew. The feeling is that he has a lot of shame over what happened and he’s hiding.”
Cuomo's disappearance might have a lot more to do with his ongoing legal strategies to avoid being held accountable for his multiple alleged incidents of sexual harassment, not to mention his COVID nursing home deaths scandals. Avoiding the public to the extent he has provides a benefit in that it keeps from providing New York residents with more reasons to demand public officials act against him.
The report contains this analysis from two of Cuomo's more notable critics:
“We understood that it was a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic,” said Janice Dean, a senior meteorologist at the Fox News Channel who lost both her elderly in-laws to Covid as a result of what she termed Cuomo’s “killer nursing home order.” His March 2020 policy sent Covid-positive patients into nursing homes for 45 days. Thousands of seniors later died.
“He thought the hospitals were going to be overrun. He didn’t have a place to put [elderly patients]. We get that. Had he just met with family members, and talked to us, we would have forgiven him. Instead he capitalized on his popularity and wrote a book and won an Emmy. But to this day he’s never apologized,” Dean told The Post. “I really think it is a psychological trait of is that he doesn’t apologize. [He seems to think] nothing he does is a mistake. And everyone else is to blame. He’s the ‘victim’ here — both of the nursing home deaths and the sexual harassment allegations.”
Dem. Assemblyman Ron Kim — whose uncle died of coronavirus in a nursing home — was famously on the receiving end of the Cuomo temper in Feb. 2021 after, he said, the then-governor called him at home and threatened to “destroy” him if he didn’t help contain the damage over the administration’s cover-up of nursing home deaths.
“If he’d recognized mistakes were made and come clean, the public would have forgiven him,” Kim told The Post last week. “Instead he lied and covered it up. He wanted to control the narrative and his image.”
The report ends featuring a source who knew Cuomo's deceased father, Mario M. Cuomo, who served three full terms as New York's governor without resigning in disgrace. They describe strange behavior on the part of Andrew M. Cuomo:
The source said that Andrew always had big shoes to fill when it came to his father. Now, in exile from public life, he is literally wearing his pop’s shoes.
“He walks in his father’s shoes, I’ve seen it,” he said. “They’re black wingtip shoes. They give him strength.”
Since Andrew M. Cuomo apparently didn't inherit strong moral character from anyone in his family, it's a very weak substitute.
