Andrew Cuomo’s pathetic campaign to regain public trust
Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo is working relentlessly to regain the general public’s respect — at the same time as he refuses to confess, not to mention apologize for, even his most horrific sins.
In a radio interview final week, for instance, he spent an hour making excuses for his quite a few abuses as governor, denying allegations in opposition to him and claiming he has no “regrets.”
He dismissed state Lawyer Common Letitia James’ findings that backed sexual-harassment prices in opposition to him from 11 separate girls as simply “a political report.”
These revelations pressured him to give up to keep away from impeachment — just because the Democrats who management the Legislature couldn’t ignore them as they’d his different misdeeds.
No. 1 on that is unquestionably his order, early within the pandemic, sending COVID-positive sufferers to dwell amongst seniors at nursing properties, the very folks most susceptible to COVID.
That transfer, an Empire Middle research later discovered, led to at the least “a number of hundred” and “presumably greater than 1,000” fatalities.
But that information got here far too late as a result of Group Cuomo went to nice lengths to conceal the care-home loss of life toll.
In the meantime, information of the outrageous order itself (damaged by The Submit’s Bernadette Hogan) pressured Cuomo to rescind the directive.
Even then, he performed it sanctimonious: “We’re simply not going to ship an individual who’s [COVID-]optimistic to a nursing house after a hospital go to. Interval,” he stated, six weeks after he’d mandated simply that.
In explaining each the order and the coverup, Cuomo has pointed fingers at then-President Donald Trump, politics, his Well being Division, nursing properties, their staffs, and (as he put it within the interview) “the most effective medical professionals on the globe” who feared an “overload” at hospitals for the catastrophe.
He himself, after all, was completely innocent.
No point out, for instance, of the huge donations he’s acquired for many years from the state’s hospital trade.
Including to the obscenity right here, the coverup of the loss of life toll got here whereas Cuomo was negotiating what wound up as a $5 million deal to put in writing a e-book about his supposedly sterling COVID management and as he eyed a White Home run.
And he rammed the e-book deal straight previous the state’s ethics panel (getting a workers memo as OK, moderately than a correct board vote).
Then he violated the phrases of that “permission” by illegally utilizing aides — i.e., state employees — to assist draft the tome.
New York, by the way in which, wound up with each one of many nation’s heaviest lockdowns and extra COVID deaths per capita than all however 14 different states.
Some “management.”
By the way, a significant theme in Cuomo’s quest for renewed relevance has been blasting fellow Democrats as smooth on crime.
The issue is, as gov., he signed into regulation the insane 2019 “prison justice reforms” (together with the no-bail regulation) that sparked the statewide rise in crime.
Within the metropolis, these reforms fueled a 32% spike in main felonies — 48% for murders alone — from 2018 to 2022.
Which leaves him pretending the “reforms” have been nice. What’s wanted, he claimed in that interview, are “police who will not be afraid to do their job.”
Pathetic.
Requested about working for workplace once more, Cuomo says “All choices are open,” that means he’s determined for the possibility.
The perfect factor he might do for New York is to confess the choices are closed and simply go away. For good.
