New York Governor and Revenge Andrew Cuomo said former staff “scared to talk about him” because more allegations of sexual misconduct piled up against the Democrat, a reporter claimed Saturday night.
Shortly after two new bomb stories appeared about Cuomo on Saturday night, a reporter who helped write one of them posted on Twitter that in a ten-year career she had never seen sources as afraid of potential retaliation as former Cuomo staffers does not appear to be.
“I’ve been a reporter for a decade now, and I do not think I’ve ever heard people as scared to talk about someone as the government of Andrew Cuomo,” Amy Brittain of The Washington Post wrote when she tweeted . the newspaper’s latest story about the fighting governor.
“I do not think I have ever heard people so scared to talk about someone as Governor Andrew Cuomo.”
“Former staff members described his anger and revenge and said they were afraid he would ruin their careers,” she added.
In the Post story – for which Brittain shares a sideline with journalists Josh Dawsey, Hannah Knowles and Tracy Jan (and three other collaborators) – a former Cuomo press officer named Karen Hinton describes being previously invited into a hotel room was and was embraced by the governor. she pulls away from him and leaves.
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In the same article, it is said that two male assistants claim that Cuomo regularly complained to them with harsh language and questioned their masculinity.
All of the allegations in the article have been denied by current Cuomo aides, with one calling Hinton a “well-known antagonist of the governor,” and the other saying he had “never” heard Cuomo use ‘crude language’. ‘not.
According to the Post article, former staff claim that Cuomo has a ‘Jekyll-and-Hyde’ personality – sometimes charming and angry with others.
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“You did not know which Andrew you were going to get,” said a former governor.
She remembers one incident in which Cuomo allegedly shouted at her “as if I had killed someone.”
“Like I killed someone.”
“Not even my own parents ever yelled at me like he yelled at me,” she told the newspaper.
The behavioral issues regarding Cuomo, as raised in the Post article, appear to be in line with previous accusations made by a New York Democratic state assembly last month that Cuomo allegedly called him at home once and in a “terrorist moment” complained woman “crying and shaking.”
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MEP Ron Kim said the governor’s call was in line with a pattern of “abusive behavior” he had observed from Cuomo.
Kim in a Twitter message on Saturday night called on Cuomo to resign and said the legislature did so. “a constitutional duty” to accuse the governor if he does not leave office.
“Cuomo’s reign of corruption, his shameful abuse of power, his destruction of people’s lives could end,” Kim wrote, “if our state legislature has the courage to plead.”