Posted on 03/09/2021 2:05:23 AM PST by gattaca
Governors facing recall and resignation pressure; anti-Trump organization takes major hit.
1:22 / 3:11 5 seconds... By Daniel Payne Updated: March 6, 2021 - 12:53pm Article Dig In Multiple political figures who served as eager foils to President Donald Trump over the past year have found themselves embroiled in scandals and political crises of their own in the weeks since Trump left office after losing the 2020 election.
Most prominent among them is New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose future as the state's chief executive has looked increasingly bleak amid political fallout from both a COVID-19 data coverup and multiple sexual harassment allegations over the past several weeks.
In late January, just over one week after Trump departed the White House, New York Attorney General Letitia James published a report alleging that the Cuomo administration had significantly undercounted COVID-19 nursing home deaths in the state. James said her report sought to "offer transparency that the public deserves" regarding coronavirus fatalities among the state's most vulnerable populations.
Shortly after that report went public, an aide to Gov. Cuomo admitted in a private conversation that the state had concealed the true nursing home data due in part to fears that the data would be "used against" the Cuomo administration by Trump.
In February and March, meanwhile, Cuomo was hit with not one or two but three high-profile, on-the-record sexual harassment allegations from former aides. The accusations have spurred a wave of demands for Cuomo to resign, with prominent Democrats calling for a full investigation into the scandals.
Cuomo's widely broadcast daily coronavirus briefings in the early phase of the pandemic last year propelled him into the national spotlight as a Democratic antagonist to Trump. At the outset of the crisis, for example, an Associated Press headline built him up as a "Democratic counter to Trump virus response." In September, Cuomo bluntly claimed that Trump "caused the Covid outbreak in New York."
Cuomo's turn of fortune from anti-Trump superstar to beleaguered politician teetering on the cusp of professional disgrace comes as a potential political catastrophe looms over another big-state Democratic governor.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing an all-but-inevitable recall election as anger continues to grow in that state over his response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Newsom's political credibility took a major hit in November when he was observed mask-less at a crowded indoor dinner table at a Michelin-starred restaurant in Napa Valley. Anger over that decision as well as Newsom's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic has helped drive the recall effort, which needs to gather 1,497,709 verified signatures to trigger a recall election in November.
"We've got about 1.9 million gross signatures on the petition," Mike Netter, a co-founder of the recall effort, told Just the News. "We think around 350,000 to 400,000 Democrats have signed it."
Netter added that "roughly half a million NPPs," or no-party-preference voters, have added their signatures to the effort.
Emboldened California Democratic politicians have lately dared at times to openly criticize Newsom, such as in January when multiple liberal lawmakers publicly dressed the governor down for proposing major expenditures on electric cars amid the pandemic.
That same month, multiple Democratic legislators slammed Newsom's response to the pandemic as "confusing" and "infuriating."
In January, meanwhile, the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, formed by a coalition of veteran Republican operatives in an effort to sink Trump's reelection bid, saw an outbreak of scandal that has left the organization a shell of its pre-November self.
Multiple men came forward publicly in January to accuse Lincoln Project co-founder John Weaver of having sent them unwanted, sexually inappropriate messages and propositioned them in exchange for professional advancement. Weaver himself resigned from the group, with its remaining leadership condemning him and claiming to have been unaware of the allegations.
Yet questions have persisted over how much the group's members knew about the scandal well before it became public knowledge in January. One of the project's board members may have been aware of the allegations as early as August of last year. Ryan Girdusky, meanwhile — one of the earliest journalists to work on the scandal — claims that the story was "circulating [at] several outlets" prior to the November election, though it only broke several days after Joe Biden was inaugurated.
Trump Curse....
I believe the “Curse of President Trump” is a real thing. We will see it play out daily with ongoing mental collapse of His Fraudulency Xiden.
[Trump Curse....]
Exactly.
“Ryan Girdusky, meanwhile — one of the earliest journalists to work on the scandal — claims that the story was “circulating [at] several outlets” prior to the November election, though it only broke several days after Joe Biden was inaugurated.”
In other words, like good, little biased outlets, they kept the public in the dark to protect trump critics until they had the election in the bag. No doubt, if trump hadnt been cheated out of the election, they would have continued sitting on the story.
In the good old days of real journalism, competing news outlets would be scrambling to be the first to report a scandal like this the very second they learned about it. Today, they just sit on every single explosive, scandalous story about the democrats and their supporters in order to help and protect the democrats electoral chances.
They were always a-holes. They just projected their sins onto Trump and are, now, no longer useful.
Why is this guy Daniel Payne choosing to distract his readers from the fact there is a huge internal power struggle going on within the Rat party? His thesis is just click bait garbage.
Just fixing.
Gretchen Whitmer is third, VA governor Blacqueface is fourth. One might call it the Month of the Long Knives.
Karma’s a wonderful thing.
Its the Karma ....and here is the first dose with so much more to come.
Before we are done, these leftist fascists will be begging to be released from governing.
Hope it catches on to Mitt (Pierre Delecto) Romney!
Yet another example of how clueless our side is.
Cuomo is pure kabuki. Who cares what Deep State object it is really about? They are just doing their own thing, and it is totally irrelevant to us.
And Newsome is pure futility. Does anyone really believe this will change anything?
We share nothing with these evil people, and thinking we do only validates them.
Elaine Chao could also be in hot water with here helping
her China connected shipping company
Who cares? It is flotsam and jetsam.
Our homes are burning down and we are concerned about the color of the fire trucks.
Let the Deep State bury their own. It is nothing to us, other than their treason, which we must never forget.
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