Sunday, at the God’s Battalion of Prayer Church in Brooklyn, Cuomo, 64, declared “cancel culture” caused his downfall last summer and dubbed investigations into the allegations against him “prosecutorial misconduct.”
The remarks, made during Cuomo’s first public appearance since leaving office last August, did not sit well with state prosecutor James. The investigations last August concluded the then-governor sexually harassed 11 women, rendering his resignation.
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“Serial sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo won’t even spare a house of worship from his lies,” James, 63, said in a scathing statement issued by her office Sunday, hours after Cuomo’s “cancel culture” assertion. “Even though multiple independent investigations found his victims to be credible, Cuomo wasn’t railroaded; he quit so he wouldn’t be impeached,” James wrote of the three-term governor’s declaration. James then offered a declaration of her own, postulating that the people of New York are fed-up with Cuomo, his alleged actions, and the controversy surrounding them. “New Yorkers are ready to move forward from this sick, pathetic man.”
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Cuomo’s speech earlier the same day addressed sexual harassment allegations found to be “credible” by James’ office last year - as well as CNN’s subsequent firing of his news anchor brother Chris - and saw the politician hint at a potential comeback. “I’ve gone through a very difficult time these past few months,” Cuomo began. “I resigned as governor, the press roasted me, my colleagues were ridiculed. My brother was fired. It was ugly… it was one of the roughest times of my life.”
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Speaking from the podium at the East Flatbush church, Cuomo quoted the Bible numerous times as he described his travails, then went on the offensive to attack the “political sharks” in Albany who, he said, "smelled blood” and exploited the situation for political gain.
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“My father used to say that government is an honorable profession but that politics can be a dirty business,” he stated. “That is especially true today when politics is so mean and extreme. When even the Democratic Party chooses to cancel people in the face of disagreement.”
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Cuomo went on to add, “But the political sharks in Albany smelled blood and exploited the situation for their own political purpose.” The Democrat resigned in August 2021, days after an independent probe uncovered he sexually harassed nearly a dozen women and that he and aides worked to retaliate against an accuser.
“The actions against me were prosecutorial misconduct,” Cuomo said, repeating a theme he has pushed from the outset. “They used cancel culture to effectively overturn an election.”
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