Posted on 03/12/2021 12:13:17 PM PST by USA Conservative
A female reporter has claimed New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D., touched her inappropriately and made her feel uncomfortable in an attempt to impose his power on the young journalist, making her the seventh accuser to come forward with claims of sexual harassment against the governor.
“I never thought the governor wanted to have sex with me. It wasn’t about sex. It was about power,” Jessica Bakeman wrote. “He uses touching and sexual innuendo to stoke fear in us. That is the textbook definition of sexual harassment.”
The New York magazine piece written by Bakeman, titled, “Cuomo Never Let Me Forget I Was a Woman,” offered a first-person account of sexual harassment allegations against the embattled governor, who is now facing calls for his resignation by high-profile Democrats.
“After two accounts of sexual assault, four accounts of harassment, the Attorney General’s investigation finding the Governor’s admin hid nursing home data from the legislature & public, we agree with the 55+ members of the New York State legislature that the Governor must resign,” tweeted Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
What the mainstream media failed to notice is the fact that he ended his speech in a really strange way:
“I never harassed anyone, I never abused anyone, I never assaulted anyone, and I never would,” he said. “I’m not going to resign. I was not elected by politicians. I was elected by the people.”
“What is being alleged just did not happen,” Cuomo said the allegations of groping in his executive mansion. “I have not had a sexual relationship that was inappropriate. Period.”
Audio below:
This ending feels like deja vu and we couldn’t compare the similarity between Cuomo’s ending and Bil Clinton’s ending back in the 90s. On Jan. 26, 1998 Bill Clinton famously told the nation, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” Watch the former President below:
Clinton later confessed that he did indeed have an “improper physical relationship” with Monica Lewinsky, a 24-year-old White House intern.
Depends on what his definition of the term
“inappropriate” is.
The key word is “relationship”. Hitting on someone or groping them is not a relationship. So technically, he’s correct.
hahahaha
Sez Mr. Nipple Rings.
This guy is pathetic. IF he hadn’t been busted, I suspect, he’d be on one of those dating services.
He’s another long list of loser politicians, that make you wonder how stupid people can be...
But it’s not the people, it’s the press. The press doesn’t vette people like this guy or De Blasio, or the Blumenthals, or on our side the Murkowski’s etc.
I say, keep him in office as long as possible.
He obviously was referring to Hillary in recent months, not Monica.
Inappropriate is a wiggle word as well if he considers all sex appropriate.
screen name is Greasy Sausage?
He’s a slimy POS. I hate a holes like this guy, who get some power, and they start flirting.
No doubt, this guy will not step down. He will not quit. He doesn’t think he did anything wrong. For one thing, he probably really didn’t. He tried to put the moves on the gal, and she pushed back, and he got the message.
Should he have even made a pass to begin with? NO, but the guy is a slob. He’s a Mussolini type. He thinks he can push his way around.
I would not put him in the same category as a Clinton, Biden or that ugly fat @ss movie mogul.
Cuomo, is your average baby boomer era, wise guy, who grew up seeing gals hit on by his Dad and his uncles and the rest.
Women, you married, had their place, and then you had the gals you went out with.
He’s old school, AND I GUARANTEE HE WILL NOT STEP DOWN, AND I WOULDN’T EITHER.
With Clinton the disinction was between sexual on the one hand, and physical on the other, not yes or no on “relationship”.
IF we had an honest media this question would be asked:
“Since you are innocent, that means a group of women has illegally conspired to ruin your reputation and and career.
When are you going to press charges and/or sue them over their falsehoods?”
“Indeed I did have a relationship with Ms. Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong.” And in that instant, dazzled by one masterful rhetorical flourish, we observed that Clinton had leapt aboard his own self-condemnatory bandwagon. What a fine fella, that Bill. Always knowin’ right from wrong. Let’s let him slide, shall we? Bless his heart, he’s seen the error of his ways.
I call if fauxtrition ... the opposite of contrition.
How many women said “yes” instead of no to more or less identical behaviors on Cuomo’s part? How many of the women who said “no” to Cuomo would have said “yes” to another similarly situated man behaving identically to Cuomo but to whom, rather than being repulsed by or feeling revulsion toward the man or his supposedly objectively untoward behavior, they were instead mysteriously or unexplainedly attracted?
You are assuming that they are telling the truth now!
It’s actually kind of psychotic. Clinton probably had a split personality. Saturday Night “Better put some ice on that” Bill versus Sunday Morning “In fact, it was wring” Bill. What a country we have, and such colorful people in’t.
Hillary won the gold for shredding documents and Bill for word parsing.
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