New Yorkers gather outside Governor Cuomo’s Manhattan office on March 2, 2021, to demand his resignation.
The newest addition to the list is a new one. Cuomo also stressed to the outside world that he would not resign from the governorship.
Pictured is New York Governor Cuomo. The picture was taken on April 17, 2020.
Cuomo said at the press conference, his voice was a little choked up: “I know now that my demeanor made people uncomfortable …… it was unintentional and I’m deeply sorry about it”, “I feel terrible and frankly, I’m embarrassed about it It’s embarrassing, it’s hard to say, but it’s true.”
After the sexual harassment scandal broke out last week, Cuomo stopped holding press conferences, and the March 3 press conference was his first public appearance since February 24, and New York State Attorney General Jen Leixia (Letitia James) was authorized on the 1st to conduct an independent investigation into recent sexual harassment allegations against Cuomo.
Cuomo asked the New York public to wait for the report on the investigation to be released by James before forming their own opinions on the facts that continue to come to light about the sexual harassment allegations.
When the outbreak began last year, New York State was the worst state in the nation, and Cuomo became a household name in politics by issuing a Home evacuation order and holding ongoing press conferences to inform New Yorkers about the Epidemic, as well as being at the forefront of the challenge to the Trump administration, and was considered a possible challenger to the 2024 presidential election.
Few Democrats are now taking the initiative to speak up for the scandal-ridden Cuomo, and more Democrats are demanding Cuomo’s resignation over the cover-up of the nursing home death toll scandal and sexual harassment allegations, but Cuomo responded strongly to this on the 3rd, saying, “I was not elected by politicians to be governor, I was elected by the people of New York State, and I will not resign.”
On Monday the 1st, President Joe Biden, who has been a longtime political ally of Cuomo, also refused to stand behind Cuomo, who is in trouble on all sides. White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said, “The president supports the state attorney general’s investigation.” She noted, “Biden wants the people to be treated with civility and respect under the administration he leads.”
Since last December, three people in quick succession have alleged sexual harassment by Cuomo. It was initially Cuomo’s former assistant, Lindsey Boylan, 36, who dropped a personal Twitter shocker in December, claiming that her former boss, New York Governor Cuomo, had sexually harassed her for years and detailed the process on her website last month on the 24th, saying that Cuomo forcibly kissed her against her will in 2018.
On the 27th, Cuomo’s former assistant Charlotte Bennett alleged to the New York Times that the 63-year-old governor made a series of inappropriate comments that led her to believe Cuomo wanted to have sex with her. Second, Anna Ruch, a former White House staffer for former President Barack Obama, also accused Cuomo of touching her back, holding her face and demanding a kiss at a wedding in September 2019.
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