Cuomo brushes off AG’s sexual harassment report as he REFUSES to step down and publishes his ‘truth’ online: Claims he would never abuse women because his family member is a ‘survivor’
- Cuomo gave a pre-recorded televised address an hour after Letitia James released her bombshell report
- He says the report is false and that he never inappropriately touched any of the women who say he did
- He specifically denied the claim of a staffer who says he groped her breast in his mansion in November 2020
- Cuomo also singled out Charlotte Bennett, a former aide who says he quizzed her on being assaulted
- Cuomo said he’d never abuse a victim and that one of his female relatives is a sexual assault survivor
- He also said James’ report is a political attack and that he’d welcome a judge and jury to go over itÂ
- There are calls on both sides of the aisle for him to resign, including from Bill de Blasio and Washington Republicans and Democrats
- De Blasio said if he continues to resist calls to step down, he should be impeached Â
- President Biden, who earlier this year said he could resign if the report convicts him, is yet to address it Â
- The 168-page report says Cuomo touched or harassed with sexual comments 11 different women
- They include assistants, state troopers, women he met at parties and others at photo-calls
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo refused to resign on Tuesday and is contesting a damning report from AG Letitia James which found he did sexually harass 11 women, including former staff, claiming it omits facts and is a political attack on him.
James released her long-awaited report into the allegations against embattled Cuomo on Tuesday morning. It says he sexually harassed 11 women including some whose allegations were not previously known, like two state troopers and an executive assistant who says he groped her breast at the Governor’s mansion in Albany in November 2020.
James said all of the allegations are corroborated but she has not recommended any criminal charges against him, saying the scope of her work didn’t include prosecution.
There has since been an onslaught of calls for him to resign afterwards on both sides of the aisle, including from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio who went as far as to call for him to be impeached.
There has been no comment from the White House, where Press Secretary Jen Psaki is due to give a press conference at 3pm, despite President Biden saying in March that Cuomo should resign and be arrested if the report substantiates the women’s allegations.
In his address, Cuomo he said he is a ‘warm’ person who sometimes ‘slips’ and calls women who work for him ‘sweetheart and darling’, but insisting he has never been predatory or physical in his interactions with staffers.
His attorney has also released an 85-page rebuttal to the report which she says she will continue to update.
‘Even on a quick first review, it is clear that the report purposefully omits key evidence,’ said Cuomo’s attorney Rita M. Glavin.
In his televised address, Cuomo used a slideshow of images of him hugging and kissing people throughout his life to demonstrate what he described as an affectionate and tactile personality, that he says the women have confused for a sexual predator.