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It seems that everyone has an opinion on Andrew Cuomo after the governor decided to resign earlier this week. The politician is not in a favorable light – especially after an investigation alleges he is guilty of sexual misconduct.
And the latest person to speak out about Cuomo is none other than Alec Baldwin, who has been involved in controversies of his own in the past. But Baldwin’s stance is a bit different from what you may imagine.
Instead of condemning the governor’s misconduct, the 63-year-old actor has called the day of Cuomo’s resignation announcement “a tragic day.”
"Regardless of what you think of Cuomo, this is a tragic day," Baldwin wrote on Twitter. "Party politics in this country draw ambitious but ultimately isolated, even socially maladjusted men and women who, given the current cancel culture, will likely have their shortcomings exposed and magnified."
Baldwin referred to "party politics" as the reason the governor resigned, though Cuomo was not asked to step down for any political reason. Politicians in both Albany and Washington DC had been calling on Cuomo to resign and even mentioned impeachment, following a report from the New York Attorney General.
The attorney general had investigated claims made by 11 women, who were all current and past state employees as well as nongovernment workers. The report concluded that Cuomo had engaged in "unwelcome and non-consensual touching," made offensive and "suggestive" comments of a sexual nature and created a "hostile work environment for women."
Despite his decision to step down, Cuomo has never admitted guilt to any of these claims. Rather, he said that he would resign to "let the government get back to governing."
In his resignation speech, Cuomo said, "Wasting energy on distractions is the last thing that state government should be doing, and I can not be the cause of that. The best way I can help now is if I step aside and let government get back to governing. It’s not about ‘me,’ it’s about ‘we.’”
