De Blasio: ‘I don’t see how Cuomo goes on’ as gov with ‘evidence mounting’

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio likened his longtime rival Gov. Andrew Cuomo to a dead man walking on Friday, saying it’s hard to see how the powerful three-term executive “goes on” as his administration is consumed by allegations of sexual harassment and a nursing home cover-up.

Hizzoner made the remarks just hours after CBS News broadcast a wrenching interview with one of the three women accusing Cuomo of sexual harassment — and new reports emerged that his administration manipulated the state Health Department review of nursing home deaths during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.

“I watched the interview with Charlotte Bennett and it’s just painful, it’s so disturbing,” de Blasio told WNYC’s Brian Lehrer during his weekly appearance on the public radio station’s talk show.

“I find her just 100 percent believable and I feel empathy for what she went through — and she speaks so clearly and powerfully,” he continued. “That never should have happened and I think it’s just profoundly troubling that it did.”

Answering Lehrer’s question about what it would take for him to call on Cuomo to resign, the mayor hesitated a bit before continuing.

“Evidence is mounting,” de Blasio said. “As more evidence comes in, I think it’s just a matter of — we need all the facts, but if the facts continue in this pattern, I don’t see how he goes on.

“I think it’s as simple as that,” he concluded.

De Blasio’s remarks came just hours after Cuomo was hit by new revelations Thursday night in the sexual harassment and nursing home scandals ensnaring him and his administration.

Bennett offered her first televised account of Cuomo’s harassment and allegations that the governor was “grooming” her in a bombshell “CBS Evening News” interview that landed on the front pages of New York’s biggest newspapers.

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