Cuomo resigns over sexual harassment claims, he should have already been impeached for senior deaths

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reportedly resigning on Tuesday is big news. What should be bigger news is why he was allowed to remain in office the last six months.

Arguably no other COVID-19 policy was more disastrous than Gov. Cuomo's order to force COVID-positive seniors back into nursing homes at the beginning of the pandemic. We later learned, and Cuomo finally admitted, that his administration had fudged the number of nursing home deaths to present a better public image.

I'd have preferred for Cuomo to resign because he was being prosecuted for murdering thousands of elderly New Yorkers and then lying about it.

But I'll take his resignation all the same. — Spike Cohen (@RealSpikeCohen) August 10, 2021

"More than 15,000 New Yorkers in care homes have died since the start of the pandemic," the BBC reported in February.

The outlet also noted, "But - until late last month - the state's health department had logged just over 8,500 fatalities."

So Cuomo lied. By half.

So many seniors dying because of bad policy is alone enough to warrant impeaching and removing Cuomo. That he tried to hide the actual number of deaths tells us he knew how bad it would look, yet still worse, his solution was to cover up and feed misinformation to his constituents.

As Sen. Rand Paul observed, "I really think Governor Cuomo ought to be impeached for the worst public policy, public health decision maybe in a century, sending patients with coronavirus back to nursing homes."

"Almost half the people who died in New Jersey and New York died because of that public policy decision and died in nursing homes," he added.

Cuomo resigning means two things: 1) he likely agreed to resign in lieu of being prosecuted, so don’t expect criminal charges; 2) he will face no consequences, criminally or politically, for killing 15,000 elderly New Yorkers.

— Eric Matheny ? (@EricMMatheny) August 10, 2021

If the nursing home scandal had not happened, yes, Cuomo should be stepping down after New York's attorney general found that the governor had sexually harassed women. Cuomo has 11 accusers.

But his time as governor shouldn't have even lasted this long. That it has tells us all we need to know about elite power and how successfully getting away with murder simply depends on who you are.

In order for true justice to be done, Cuomo ought to have to resign alone in a hospital room without any access to family.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 10, 2021