You’d think that WorldNetDaily would be done with Andrew Cuomo following his resignation as New York governor following multiple allegations of sexual harassment. But because it’s WND, its columnists felt the need to build conspiracy theories around it.
In his Aug. 11 column, Nicholas Waddy suggested that Cuomo had to resign in order to keep from hurting Democrats’ political chances in the 2022 elections:
The problem, however, is that, while most of us may want to believe that Cuomo, for instance, is guilty of sexual harassment, because it is so easy to think ill of a man so widely disliked, this does not necessarily make him guilty of any crime or “misdemeanor” in point of fact. He can be a jerk without being a criminal jerk. The distinction matters.
Keep in mind that, toward the end of “Cuomo-gate,” Democrats in New York wanted Cuomo to be guilty, because if he were, then he could be removed – as a political liability to Democrats. Republican politicos likewise wanted Cuomo to be guilty, because their conservative constituents would never have forgiven them if they did not vote to impeach and remove such a hated figure on the right.
For different reasons, therefore, politicians of both parties in New York agreed on Cuomo’s preferred fate – it was resignation or removal, period/exclamation point – but the nature of the accusations and the amount of hard evidence underlying them never made much difference to anyone’s political calculus.
[…]Did Cuomo really harass 11 women, or were those charges merely a convenient means by which the New York political establishment could rid itself of a man who had become “dead weight” and an impediment to Democratic electoral success in 2022 and beyond? We may never know the answer to these questions, and that is highly unfortunate.
Waddy also complained that “President Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives in January 2021 without the presentation of any evidence, without the examination of witnesses and without meaningful deliberation.” Of course, the “evidence” was Trump’s actions in the runup to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot he instigated, which was out in the open for everyone to see, and it was Republicans, not Democrats, who blocked the introduction of witnesses and the gathering of new evidence in Trump’s impeachment trial.
Scott Lively, meanwhile, used his Aug. 12 column to theorize that the harassment claims were a distraction from Cuomo’s purported killing of thousands of people by transferring COVID patients to nursing homes in the early part of the pandemic to make room for more patients in hospitals:
On March 25, 2020, as the human death toll attributed to COVID-19 was skyrocketing, and the official government narrative for granting itself extraordinary emergency powers was centered on hospitals being overrun with COVID patients, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo made the executive decision to sacrifice the very elderly and infirm so that more hospital beds would be available for younger people. That’s my most charitable possible theory as to Cuomo’s motive for issuing what in retrospect was clearly a death warrant for over 15,000 nursing home patients in the Empire State. That death warrant was the now infamous Cuomo Nursing Home Directive, stating in pertinent part:
“No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19. NHs are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or re-admission.”
My less charitable, more realistic theory is that Andrew Cuomo intentionally murdered those “useless eaters” with the same Malthusian imperiousness he displayed in championing New York’s ghoulish 2019 late-term abortion law.
[…]But even in today’s Amerika, mass murder is hard to get away with, and so, when his damage-control efforts proved ineffective, Andrew Cuomo needed a survivable exit strategy.
Enter Lindsey Boylan (aka “Andrew Cuomo’s Monica Lewinski”) as the first in a parade of “me too” accusers.To be absolutely clear, I am not accusing Ms. Boylan of complicity in Cuomo’s public diversion scheme, any more that I think Monica Lewinski was in on the Bill Clinton diversion strategy (though in Lewinski’s case, I think it’s possible). I’m only saying that Cuomo is following the Clinton playbook to the letter by allowing an almost certainly ally-orchestrated (or at least nudged), fully survivable (and “stud-status” enhancing) sex scandal to draw public attention away from the real scandal and its risk of truly serious consequences.
Lively went on to claim that President Clinton’s Monica Lewinsky sex scandal was a diversion from alleged shady deals with China. But he can’t even be bothered to spell Lewinsky’s name right, which hurts his credibility on the conspiracy-theory front.