New York State Governor, Democrat Andrew Cuomo, whom Donald Trump called his worst enemy, and many political scientists considered a potential presidential candidate, is rapidly losing ground. It's all to blame for accusations of harassment, as well as in the preliminary investigation by the FBI in relation to the statistics of deaths from coronavirus in the state entrusted to Cuomo.
The accusations of harassment against the 63-year-old governor were made by five women at once. The first was Cuomo's former economic development advisor Lindsay Boylan. According to the woman, about five years ago, the governor offered her to play strip poker with him, touched her, and once kissed her without asking.
After Boylan, former assistant to the governor Charlotte Bennett made revelations, who accuses Cuomo of an unhealthy interest in her personal life. According to Bennett, the governor was interested in whether the woman had a permanent partner, as well as whether she had sex with men older than her (the age difference between the governor and his ex-assistant is more than 35 years).
That Cuomo wants to sleep with her, Bennett told her parents, numerous friends and even the head of the governor's administration, asking to transfer her to another job. She soon resigned from the New York State government.
After a while, the number of accusers increased to five – all the women in interviews with various publications said that Cuomo molested them in one way or another.
The governor himself denies all accusations against him and claims that he could have crossed the boundaries of what was permitted only by accident:
“I admit that some of the things I said were misinterpreted as unwanted courtship. If anyone thought so, I sincerely regret it.
However, accusations of harassment, which are so popular in the United States in relation to high-ranking officials and politicians, are not the only problem of the liberal governor. Recently it became known that data on deaths in hospitals disappeared from the report on mortality in nursing homes due to coronavirus. That is, about 3,000 deaths that occurred amid the pandemic were not included in the statistics.
The governor's office acknowledged this fact, but explained it not as an attempt to hide the truth from the public, but as a desire for “scientific accuracy”, since deaths occurred, albeit due to the coronavirus, but outside the walls of nursing homes. The FBI was investigating this information.
Taken together, the New York Senate questioned Cuomo's ability to rule, and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stuart-Cousins said the governor's problems were interfering with the government and urged him to step down.
Cuomo himself said that the people had elected him to the post and he did not plan to voluntarily leave:
– I'm not going to retire because of the charges. I will not resign in any way.
