New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s “anger and revenge” left former officials “afraid to talk” about him as more accusations of sexual misconduct accumulated against the Democrat, a reporter said Saturday night.
Shortly after two new bombshell stories about Cuomo appeared on Saturday night, a reporter who helped write one posted on Twitter that in a 10-year career she never saw sources as fearful of potential retribution as former Cuomo employees seemed. to have.
“I’ve been a reporter for a decade and I don’t think I’ve ever heard people as afraid to talk about someone as they are about Governor Andrew Cuomo,” wrote Amy Brittain of The Washington Post, tweeting the newspaper’s latest story about the governor in trouble.
“I don’t think I’ve ever heard people as afraid to talk about someone as they are about Governor Andrew Cuomo.”
“Former employees described his anger and revenge and said they feared he would destroy their careers,” she added.
In the Post’s story – for which Brittain shares a signature with journalists Josh Dawsey, Hannah Knowles and Tracy Jan (and three other contributors) – a former Cuomo press officer named Karen Hinton describes being invited to a hotel room and hugged by the governor before she walked away from him and left.
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The same article adds that two male advisers claimed that Cuomo often reprimanded them with harsh language and questioned their masculinity.
All allegations in the article were denied by Cuomo’s current advisers, with one referring to Hinton as a “well-known antagonist to the governor” and the other saying that he “never” heard Cuomo use “crude language”.
The Post article also says that former employees claim that Cuomo has a “Jekyll-and-Hyde” personality – charming at times and furious with others.
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“You didn’t know which Andrew was going to get it,” an unnamed former governor nominee told the Post.
She remembered an incident in which Cuomo allegedly yelled at her “as if I had killed someone”.
“As if I had killed someone.”
“Not even my own parents yelled at me the way he yelled at me,” she told the newspaper.
Behavioral issues related to Cuomo, as raised in the Post article, seemed to align with previous accusations made last month by a Democratic deputy from New York State, who claimed that Cuomo once called him at home and reprimanded him in a “terrifying moment” that left his wife “crying and shivering”.
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Congressman Ron Kim said the governor’s call corresponds to a pattern of “abusive behavior” that he observed in Cuomo.
In Twitter messages on Saturday night, Kim asked Cuomo to step down and said the state legislature “a constitutional duty” for impeachment of the governor if he does not step down.
“Cuomo’s reign of corruption, his vile abuse of power, his destruction of people’s lives could end,” wrote Kim, “if our state legislature has the courage to impeachment.”