It's gotta' be so our attention is distracted from the fact he's an out and out crook who should be under federal investigation for crimes he's commited against people in the NY state legislature.
Looks like he's succeeding in distracting us though.
I'll tell you what's going on here. New York State has become such a dysfunctional mess from an economic standpoint that normal middle-class Americans simply can't live there anymore. The state has to bend over backwards to accommodate recent immigrants from Third World sh!t-holes all over the planet because these are the only people who see New York as a place of opportunity anymore.