Governor Andrew Cuomo speaking about recent allegations.
Source: New York State
A combative New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday again refused to resign, arguing that calls by a growing number of Democratic lawmakers that he quit due to a sexual harassment scandal are “reckless and dangerous” because they do not know the facts.
“I did not do what has been alleged, period,” Cuomo told reporters. “Politicians who don’t know a single fact but yet form a conclusion and then an opinion are in my opinion reckless and dangerous.”
“I never harassed anyone, I never assaulted anyone, I never abused anyone,” Cuomo said, after suggesting that the women who have complained about him had some motivation to lie. The governor did not say what that motivation might be.
Multiple women, including three former aides and a current staffer, say the Democratic governor sexually harassed them.
A majority of Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York districts on Friday called on Cuomo to resign.
Those calls came a day after nearly 60 Democratic members of the state legislature demanded the governor quit, and after the Democrat Assembly speaker authorized an impeachment investigation into Cuomo’s conduct toward women and a cover up of data related to Covid nursing home deaths.
“The repeated accusations against the Governor, and the manner in which he has responded to them, have made it impossible for him to continue to govern at this point,” House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-Manhattan, wrote on Twitter. “Governor Cuomo has lost the confidence of the people of New York. Governor Cuomo must resign.”
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