30 August 2022: Editorial - Don't Buy Cuomo’s Lame Claim He Was Booted Because of #MeToo ‘Excess’

Don’t buy Cuomo’s lame claim that he was booted because of #MeToo ‘excess’

The New York Post's editors aren't impressed by Andrew M. Cuomo's latest attempt to claim he's a victim. After reviewing Cuomo's sexual harassment history, the following excerpt discusses why Cuomo was really forced to resign as New York's governor:

More important, as we’ve long argued, his other transgressions were far worse — and by themselves provided overwhelming grounds for impeachment. At the top of the list: his order for nursing homes to accept COVID-positive patients, knowing the virus would spread like “fire through dry grass,” as he put it.

And then Cuomo’s administration hid the actual number of nursing-home deaths for months. When the figures finally came out, analyses showed his order led to hundreds, if not thousands, of needless fatalities.

Meanwhile, with the truth under wraps, Cuomo snagged a $5 million book deal about his “leadership” during the pandemic, meaning he personally profited from the coverup. Plus, he used staff to write and sell the book, violating both the law and explicit promises he made to get an ethics clearance for the project.

Lawmakers may have been reluctant to impeach him on those grounds (even now Gov. Kathy Hochul has been slow to keep her vow to probe those scandals). But his govern-by-fear bullying had left him with few friends, and his fellow Democrats had no problem throwing the “believe all women” rule in Cuomo’s face: It was much like nabbing Al Capone on tax evasion.

Impeachment is a political process, not a judicial one. Whatever a court might make of the harassment charges, Andrew Cuomo has no one to blame for his downfall but himself.

The sexual harassment charges offered New York's elected leaders the means to "surgically" remove Cuomo from office while allowing them to maintain their own hold on power. In the end, Cuomo chose to quit rather than risk being held accountable for his other, more serious misdeeds.