Biden Declines To Say Whether Cuomo Ought To Resign: ‘We Should See’ What Investigation Finds

President Joe Biden on Sunday evening declined to join Democrats’ growing calls for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to resign as allegations of sexual misconduct continue to pile up against the governor.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1364870

Wise.
Presidents really shouldn’t be sticking their noses into State level political processes unless there is some indication that the State is corruptly or abusively not taking any action.

Here we seem to see a process of an investigation with broad own-party condemnation of the alleged (likely) behavior subject to investigation.

Follow the process.

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as should we all… as should we all
The last one …he held my hand too long… OH the humanity1
Cuomo has been governor since 2011
All through the raging MeToo when people (Franken) were being vilified for pictures FFS
Where were these accusers then?
Something stinks
They all need to STFU until the investigation is done

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Agree!

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Well said

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I agree with him. Though it will be shitty for alleged victims to be put through this process, NOBODY should have the power to ruin someone else’s life through accusation alone.

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If Biden can’t, or won’t, tweet some half thought out position, and then contradict it in another tweet or statement of some sort twenty minutes later, is he even President?

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Take note of when these women say their encounters with Cuomo occurred.

One relates an incident that allegedly occurred when Cuomo was serving in the Clinton administration.

How about the others?

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As others have said:

Wow, lookit that: a POTUS who doesn’t think he has to opine about every. fucking. thing under the sun, AND who believes in letting investigative systems work.

Huh. Interesting concept.

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I still see no need for Biden to intervene, and a couple of reasons for him not to.

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Agreed. We just spent four fucking years with attempts at that; so, I’d think we’d all be happy to wish it a cheerful goodbye.

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I am sure that a lot of lazy journalists will focus like a laser on Biden’s declination but this is essentially a local issue and since Biden doesn’t have any more access to information than anyone else he is wise not to speculate.

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You miss Him, don’t you :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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Exactly.

The process is playing out at the state level, as it should. Meanwhile, not to minimize these allegations, Biden has other fish to fry.

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Agreed. I’d add that after years of trial by public opinion (and tweet,) it really serves us all to wait on due process.

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As I noted on another thread yesterday, last Friday a colleague of mine who teaches political science for us told a couple of us that the week that “cofveve” was a thing on Twitter was, for him, the high point of the Trump administration.

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Absolutely stay out of it. More opinions don’t = Due Process.

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“But people know the difference between playing politics, bowing to cancel culture and the truth”

Without the Oxford Comma, that statement has a Freudian slip - “bowing…to the truth”. Made me chuckle.

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Wow, lookit that: a POTUS who doesn’t think he has to opine about every. fucking. thing under the sun,

Exactamundo. There is far, far more important shit for our president to be focusing on. And nicely done by Mr. Biden, giving the gov support - due process - and then quickly moving on. Fat old fucking Lardass would have gotten two weeks out of this. Once again, thank God he’s not our president. Close call though - and I’ll try to not ever mention it again.

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But his lack of mean tweets is a disgrace to the office!

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