It was not so long ago that the governor of the State of New York, Andrew Cuomo, was one of the media spearheads against the former US president Donald Trump, especially after the outbreak of the coronavirus health crisis and the joking attitude of the president tycoon. But now things have changed radically, Joe Biden He made it to the White House, and Cuomo has now become little more than a broken toy. From being a media battering ram against Trump, in just 15 months Cuomo has fallen to hell. Between accusations of sexual harassment, Joe Biden has already put the cross on him and publicly showed him the exit door.
Andrew Cuomo’s misadventures took a path of no return on Tuesday, when the New York Attorney General’s Office presented a report detailing that “Sexually harassed several women” who worked for your Administration. In the report presented by the attorney general, Laetitia James, it also abounded that both Cuomo himself and his team retaliated against one of the women after she denounced him.
“I think I should resign.” That has been Biden’s sentence on Cuomo in his first public appearance after the devastating report from the Prosecutor’s Office. “And if he did not resign, do you think an impeachment process should be initiated for him to leave office?” Biden was asked, who at this point did throw balls out: “Things, one at a time. I think I should resign. I understand that the state procedure could lead to impeachment proceedings, I have not read all the details of the process.
The report of the Prosecutor’s Office details a whole collection of reprehensible attitudes such as various touching or verbal harassment, creating a real climate “of sexual discrimination against women, with a whole catalog of questions or proposals out of place. “There was a culture in which you could not say ‘no’ to the governor and, if he or some of his senior officials got angry, they could put you aside or worse,” says Joon Kim, one of the lawyers who they work on the case.
Of course, despite the fact that the report describes a “deeply disturbing picture” and on numerous occasions refers to Cuomo’s conduct as “illegal,” in violation of state and federal laws, it does not conclude that it confirms “whether the conduct is equivalent to or it should be the subject of a criminal proceeding ”, that is, the Prosecutor’s Office has decided not to press charges, at least for the moment.
Cuomo remains on the defensive, with a fighting spirit and refusing to leave office, although he remains to appear after Biden has shown him the thumbs down. Gone are the days when Cuomo was the great rising star in the Democratic Party to fight Trump, when he even received requests to run as a candidate in the Democratic race for the candidacy, which Joe Biden ended up winning.
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