Bullied NY reporter thinks Andrew Cuomo’s attempted return after resignation was ‘the plan all along’

Some media analysts and reporters aren’t thrilled that disgraced ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D., is making an attempt a political comeback, however thought it was “all the time” a part of his plan from the day he introduced his resignation.

Lindsay Nielsen, a former reporter for News10 ABC in Albany, give up her job final March amid what she known as “threatening” habits from Cuomo’s workplace. In an announcement posted on social media, she advised her followers that she had routinely obtained “accusatory” and “threatening” messages from his workers, in addition to “incessant bullying” to get her to cease pursuing sure tales.

“I wasn’t stunned,” Nielsen advised Fox Information Digital of Cuomo’s reported return. “I feel this was the plan all alongside. If you consider it, it takes time to form of plan this … I feel he wouldn’t have stepped away until he thought that was going to be a part of it and that he would have a strategy to form of attempt to restore his picture.”

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Regardless of opposition from leaders of his personal celebration, Cuomo is reportedly contemplating a run in opposition to present Gov. Kathy Hochul, D, who was sworn into workplace final August following Cuomo’s resignation after a string of sexual misconduct allegations. 

Cuomo denied wrongdoing, however a report from Legal professional Normal Letitia James, D., discovered he had sexually harassed 11 girls from 2013 to 2020. Former Gov. Cuomo launched a brand new political advert in February suggesting he’s the sufferer of political assaults relating to the sexual misconduct claims.    

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Now, Cuomo’s tried return, simply seven months after his resignation, has some media observers seething.

Nielsen questioned whether or not Cuomo was “actually being truthful” when he stated he was going to resign as a result of he didn’t wish to “distract” from the work that wanted to be carried out in New York state.

FILE – Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa, left, joins New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo as he speaks to reporters throughout a information convention on Sept. 14, 2018, in New York. (AP Picture/Mary Altaffer)

Columnist David Marcus additionally dated Cuomo’s tried comeback to the day of his resignation.

“It’s insane,” he advised Fox Information Digital. “It’s wonderful. Though I feel looking back, in the event you have a look at the resignation, the resignation actually stunned a variety of Cuomo watchers who anticipated him to go down with a struggle. That’s kind of his MO. And now it’s clear that resigning when he did, over that specific difficulty, was actually the start of an try and rehabilitate him.”

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo provides a thumbs on the stage at an occasion to debate the minimal wage on the Javitz Conference Heart in New York, September 10, 2015. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
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Each Nielsen and Marcus stated Cuomo’s “vanity” or “hubris” might account for his obvious return.

“He clearly feels entitled to this place of energy,” Marcus maintained. “And I’ve little doubt that he believes that he was a improbable governor.”

Nielsen advised Fox Information Digital that she “completely” expects that the threatening workplace tradition underneath Cuomo will proceed ought to his resurrected political ambitions come to fruition.

“Completely,” Nielsen stated, saying Cuomo by no means actually confronted accountability for his actions. “That’s my greatest difficulty that I’ve had with this, from the start.” 

“It’s scary to consider for my part, simply realizing the remedy that clearly these girls obtained, that I personally obtained from that administration and a variety of different reporters I’ve spoken with – that some have determined to return ahead, some haven’t,” she continued. “I might be extremely involved that that tradition would proceed. I feel he nonetheless has individuals working for him now that had been a part of that. So I do suppose there can be a variety of the identical individuals onboard.”

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Nonetheless, even together with his tainted previous, Cuomo is polling simply 4 factors behind Hochul amongst probably Democratic main voters in New York, a survey launched final week discovered.

Marcus stated New Yorkers have lengthy put up with corruption in management, arguing Cuomo has “acquired a superb shot” within the Democratic main.

“I feel within the Democratic main he’s acquired a superb shot,” Marcus stated. “I feel that New York voters usually are very transactional. New York voters will put up with a specific amount of corruption and scandal if the trains work.”

Fox Information contributor Karol Markowicz agreed {that a} win for the disgraced governor was “not out of the query.”

“Andrew Cuomo is a person who was by no means advised no,” Markowicz advised Fox Information Digital. “It is apparent he’ll run and other people ought to think about he has a reasonably good probability of profitable. Sufficient individuals purchased the media line of Andrew Cuomo because the conquering COVID hero, and his successor is so deeply out of contact with many of the state, {that a} win for him will not be out of the query.”

A number of different writers and pundits jumped into the controversy over Cuomo, leaving little doubt they don’t want to see his face on the marketing campaign path once more.

“I wrote on the [uselessness] of the Andrew Cuomo comeback and the way little he has to supply the world,” creator and columnist Ross Barkan tweeted.

“Andrew Cuomo, New York’s disgraced former governor, is hoping to mount a political comeback,” Barkan wrote in a Jacobin column. “However his posturing as a sufferer of ‘cancel tradition’ can’t change the truth that his comeuppance was genuinely-earned.”

Lindsay Boylan, the primary lady to publicly accuse Cuomo of sexual harassment, agreed with Barkan’s take.

“He has all the time had nothing to supply and nothing to say past brute pressure and intimidation,” she wrote.

Cuomo averted impeachment together with his resignation, which might have led to him being prevented from holding state workplace once more.

Fox Information’ Jon Brown contributed to this report.