President Joe Biden has said that the New York government should resign Andrew Cuomo if the claims recently made by several women about sexual harassment are confirmed by an investigation led by the state’s attorney general.
ABC Stephanopoulos, a fellow Democrat, questioned about the allegations against Cuomo, a fellow Democrat, in an interview released Tuesday.
“Yes,” Biden said when asked if Cuomo should resign if the investigation confirms the allegations of several women. “I think he will probably be prosecuted as well.”
The full interview will be broadcast on Wednesday.
Several women accused Cuomo of inappropriate behavior and asked him to resign. Cuomo denied that he had touched anyone inappropriately, but acknowledged that he had acted in a way that made people feel uncomfortable. He said it was unintentional, and he apologized.
The comments are Biden’s strongest so far after he said this week that there should be a wait-and-see approach to what emerges from the investigation. House President Nancy Pelosi, D-California, declined to ask for Cuomo’s resignation, though dozens of other top Democrats, including Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand – both from New York, asked to be fired.
Pelosi spoke on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, calling the allegations “credible and serious” and adding that she had confidence in the investigation led by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
A defiant Cuomo told reporters in a telephone briefing before the Schumer and Gillibrand statement last week that he would not bend to ‘cancel culture’ and go nowhere.
“I’m not going to resign,” he said, adding that lawmakers would not know the facts until James’ investigation was completed.
A group of nearly 60 state lawmakers has demanded Cuomo’s resignation, and House Speaker Carl Heastie has authorized the legal committee to begin an indictment.
Biden said in his interview that “a woman should suspect that she is telling the truth and that she should not become a scapegoat and that she is victimized by coming forward.”
He added: “It takes a lot of courage to come forward. The suspicion is that it needs to be taken seriously. But there needs to be an investigation to determine if what she is saying is true. And that’s what’s going on now. gang is. “
James hired two attorneys, one of whom is a former acting U.S. attorney, to lead the investigation.
