A regretful Andrew Cuomo said he wouldn’t resign as New York’s governor if he could do it over again — and threw shade at successor Gov. Kathy Hochul’s record.
Cuomo, in a wide-ranging New York Times interview Tuesday, retroactively — and flippantly — dismissed widespread concerns at the time that his sexual harassment scandal in 2021 would cripple state government if he stayed in office.
“If I had to do it again, I wouldn’t have resigned,” he told the Times when asked if he regretted stepping down.
“At the time, I thought that I would be a distraction to government functionality, that they would all be involved in impeachment proceedings, blah, blah, blah,” Cuomo added. “Looking back, what has really been done in the last four years, anyway, right?”
Hochul has been governor in the four years since Cuomo resigned in disgrace over the sexual harassment accusations, which he vehemently denies.
The Times noted the implicit diss to Hochul.
“It sounds like you don’t think your successor, Gov. Kathy Hochul, has done that,” the Times offered.
“Well, you can judge the record of accomplishment of the past four years,” Cuomo responded.
