Down and Dirty
Cumo and Trump
How do you spell arrogance, gall, conceit, malevolence, pomposity, stench, degenerate and pig? I spell it two ways: C-U-O-M-O and T-R-U-M-P. The difference is that Trump got away with all kinds of sexual harassment and assaults but he is still beloved by millions of bottom dwelling Republicans and just may be elected president again in 2024 while Democratic N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo will probably either resign or be thrown out of office, in total disgrace, never to be seen again on the political landscape, causing his honorable papa to turn over in his grave.
In case you’ve been living under a rock, an independent investigation found that Cuomo sexually harassed at least 11 women and violated state and federal law. The report references interviews with 179 people and details how Cuomo inappropriately touched several state employees and made sexually suggestive comments to them. Cuomo has denied he did anything wrong and has apologized if he hurt anyone’s feelings.
Cuomo tells all who would listen that he is innocent of sexually harassing or assaulting because “that’s not who I am.” Trump, on the other hand, responds to claims of his inappropriate sexual behavior with words of macho and bravura, essentially saying, “that is exactly who I am” and he elicits ear splitting cheers from his mongrel, misogynist followers.
What goes on in the perverse mind of people who think they can use power to get away with sexually harassing and assaulting women, especially at a point in historical time when numerous powerful people have fallen in public shame like ducks in a row after their actions were brought to light by brave women victims screaming out #metoo. People like Cuomo and trump think they are too smart, too rich, too powerful to get caught, and that they can easily buy off or brush off any allegations and they are usually right. Cuomo the younger, Cuomo the sleezbag, is so infernally arrogant that he thinks he can get away with anything just like that other subterranean politician who said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it. That would be trump.
Andrew Cuomo you are no donald trump and for that small thing, we are grateful.
Meet Andrew Cuomo, whose late dad was the legendary and universally loved, Gov. Mario Cuomo, who has been governor of the Empire State since 2011, and a politician whose star was shining brilliantly for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, until his star started to disintegrate when it came out that he was covering up the number of people who had died of the virus in New York nursing homes while at the same time, women started talking about Cuomo’s groping. What kind of sick pleasure can a man get out of groping a woman? Only a man who is utterly cocksure of himself, sorry for the pun.
So Cuomo is a dirtbag and the politicians are like sharks smelling blood, jumping on the kick the bum out bandwagon, even those on the Republican side who were famously and excruciatingly silent when their bad haired boy was busy groping, assaulting and letting the world know he could “grab a pussy” whenever he wanted.
Let’s see. Find me a Republican in congress who has called out trump for his sexual piggyness and I will give you all the gold I own, which isn’t much but that’s beside the point. The point is Republicans are winning the hypocrisy battle. Much as I abhor Cuomo, he is no match for the lecherous ex-president.
Did Rep. Elise Stefanick, R-N.Y., ever publicly comment on any of the allegations against trump? If you said NO, you would be right, but as far as Cuomo, she was quickly perched on her high-handed, phony horse, saying that “No one is above the law and today justice must be served… These brave women deserve swift and definitive justice.”
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel did not reject trump when he endorsed her to be the GOP chairwoman but she did demand that Cuomo resign.
And another voice decrying the immorality of Cuomo was Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y. Zeldin, who is a major lackey of trump, is running for governor of New York. Zeldin had called the impeachments against trump a “charade,” and a “clown show.”
Not to minimize the allegations against Cuomo, but trump has had more than a dozen credible claims of sexual harassment or assault leveled against him. Here are some of the alleged victims, and I challenge you to remember many of them:
* Jessica Leeds alleged that Trump groped her on an airplane in the late 1970s, which the president has repeatedly denied.
* Kristin Anderson told The Washington Post that Trump put his hand up her skirt to her underwear in the early 1990s.
* Jill Harth said she had dinner with Trump and her then-boyfriend, George Houraney, in 1992 when Trump allegedly tried to put his hands between her legs. She alleged he also tried to kiss her during a tour of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida a month later when she and Houraney were there to celebrate solidifying a business contract.
* Cathy Heller said trump grabbed her and tried to kiss her on the lips during a 1997 Mother’s Day brunch at Mar-a-Lago.
* Temple Taggart McDowell was the 21-year-old Miss Utah when she participated in the Miss USA contest in 1997 and said that Trump, who owned the pageant at the time, kissed her “directly on the lips.”
* Karena Virginia, a New York-area yoga instructor, said Trump approached her in 1998 outside the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York while she was awaiting a car service, made unseemly comments about her appearance, grabbed her arm and groped her breast.
* Bridget Sullivan, crowned Miss New Hampshire 2000, said that Trump came into the Miss Universe changing room while the contestants were naked.
* Tasha Dixon, the former Miss Arizona, said that Trump walked into a dress rehearsal for a pageant in 2001 while the contestants were “half-naked’ and the women were told to “fawn all over him.”
* Mindy McGillivray said that Trump grabbed her derriere while she was working as a photographer’s assistant at a 2003 event at Mar-a-Lago.
* Rachel Crooks was a secretary who worked in Trump’s building in 2005, when she said that Trump shook her hand, then kissed her on the cheeks and then on the lips, while outside an elevator at Trump Tower in New York City.
* Natasha Stoynoff, a writer for People magazine, said Trump inappropriately touched her in 2005 when she was at Mar-a-Lago for an interview timed to coincide with the first anniversary of his marriage to Melania Trump.
* Jennifer Murphy, a contestant on the fourth season of “The Apprentice,” said that Trump kissed her on the lips after a job interview in 2005.
* Jessica Drake, an adult film star, said Trump kissed her and two other women without their consent 10 years ago.
* Ninni Laaksonen competed in the 2006 Miss Universe pageant as Miss Finland and said that Trump squeezed her rear end after posing for a photo before an appearance on “The David Letterman Show.”
* Summer Zervos, who was a competitor on the fifth season of “The Apprentice,” said that Trump abused his role as a potential employer, kissing her twice during a meeting at Trump Tower in New York, and later groping and kissing her in a California hotel room.
* Cassandra Searles, former Miss Washington, said that trump grabbed her butt and invited her to his hotel room in June 2016.
* E. Jean Carroll, an advice columnist, accused Trump in 2019 of sexually assaulting her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room 23 years earlier. On June 23, 2019, Trump reiterated his denials during an interview with The Hill, said that Carroll was “totally lying” and that “she’s not my type” and “it never happened.”
* Amy Dorris, a former model, claimed that at the 1997 U.S. Open in New York Trump groped her body and forced his tongue into her mouth outside of a bathroom.