{"id":258153,"date":"2021-03-19T18:30:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T22:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=258153"},"modified":"2021-03-19T18:30:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T22:30:30","slug":"new-audio-confirms-that-andrew-cuomo-threatened-to-compare-political-opponent-to-child-rapist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-audio-confirms-that-andrew-cuomo-threatened-to-compare-political-opponent-to-child-rapist\/","title":{"rendered":"New Audio Confirms That Andrew Cuomo Threatened To Compare Political Opponent To \u2018Child Rapist\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-audio-confirms-that-andrew-cuomo-threatened-to-compare-political-opponent-to-child-rapist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=258153&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2208.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>In a New York Times report titled, \u201cUprising Grows Over Cuomo\u2019s Bullying and \u2018Brutalist Political Theater,\u2019\u201d it was alleged that the New York Governor had threatened to publicly liken a opponent to a \u201cchild rapist.\u201d In the latest New York Times podcast, an audio recording of this conversation confirms these previously-denied allegations to be accurate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After describing the response to the question, \u201cWho in this room has been yelled at or bullied by Andrew Cuomo?\u201d the initial <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/22\/nyregion\/cuomo-new-york-covid.html?searchResultPosition=2\"><span>report<\/span><\/a><span> added that <\/span><span>\u201c<\/span><span>The theme suffuses many of Mr. Cuomo\u2019s interactions \u2014 accounts in which the governor berated aides and elected officials, brought people to tears and threatened to fire them or end their careers. People outside the governor\u2019s direct control who have clashed with him said he told them they would be subject to negative news stories or political challenges or, in one case, would be publicly likened to a \u2018child rapist.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c\u2018His primary tool for governing is to create fear,\u2019 said Karen Hinton, a communications consultant who worked with Mr. Cuomo when he was housing secretary in the Clinton administration and has since fallen out with him,\u201d the report added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn the fall of 2018, for example, when Mr. Cuomo was told by a leader of the Working Families Party \u2014 which had backed his primary opponent, Cynthia Nixon \u2014 that it would endorse him in the general election because he was better than a Republican, Mr. Cuomo\u2019s response was blunt,\u201d the report continued.&nbsp;<\/span><span>\u201c\u2018If you ever say, \u2018Well he\u2019s better than a Republican\u2019 again, then I\u2019m going to say, \u2018You\u2019re better than a child rapist,\u2019\u2019 the governor said, according to two people who were on the call. \u2018How about that?\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><span>The snippet of the 2018 call was first made public on Friday, almost a month after the Times reported the outburst and the governor\u2019s spokespeople denied the reporting. The Times first shared the audio in an episode of The Daily podcast that aired Friday morning,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/local\/cuomo-heard-making-child-rapist-threat-to-working-families-party-leader-in-2018-call\/2954321\/\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span> NBC New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><span>The conversation starts at 17:20 in the podcast, but pick it up at around the sixteen-minute mark for the full context. WFP leader Bill Lipton clearly wants to find a way to maintain their own agenda while <\/span><i><span>supporting<\/span><\/i><span> Cuomo, and seems to wonder why Cuomo\u2019s so unhappy about the comment. Lipton tells Cuomo that they\u2019re fine with the same formulation about them in reverse. Cuomo refuses to allow any criticism, threatening twice to compare the WFP publicly to child rapists. As Michael Barbaro\u2019s guest Shane Goldmacher notes later, Cuomo then repaid the WFP for their support by trying to change ballot-access rules to significantly reduce their power,\u201d Hot Air <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/ed-morrissey\/2021\/03\/19\/nyt-remember-cuomo-denied-threatening-pols-comparisons-child-rapists-well-receipts\/\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Cuomo spokesperson Rich Azzopardi claimed that the governor does not remember the conversation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis three-year-old conversation happened after a very contentious political campaign where things were charged on all sides. He doesn\u2019t remember it occurring, but from how it has been described he was clearly being hyperbolic to illustrate the offensive nature of the WFP\u2019s own name calling,\u201d Azzopardi told NBC New York, according to their report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"> <i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a New York Times report titled, \u201cUprising Grows Over Cuomo\u2019s Bullying and \u2018Brutalist Political Theater,\u2019\u201d it was alleged that the New York Governor had threatened to publicly liken a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310847,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2208.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"New Audio Confirms That Andrew Cuomo Threatened To Compare Political Opponent To \u2018Child Rapist\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2208.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"New Audio Confirms That Andrew Cuomo Threatened To Compare Political Opponent To \u2018Child Rapist\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}