Cuomo staffers ‘fearful to speak’ because of Dem’s ‘rage & vindictiveness,’ WaPo reporter claims

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s “rage & vindictiveness” have made former staffers “fearful to speak” about him as extra accusations of sexual misconduct piled up in opposition to the Democrat, a reporter claimed Saturday night time.

Shortly after two new bombshell stories about Cuomo appeared Saturday night, a reporter who helped write one of them posted on Twitter that in a 10-year career she has by no means seen sources as frightened of potential retribution as former staffers of Cuomo appeared to be.

“I’ve been a reporter for a decade now, and I don’t think I have ever heard people as fearful to speak about someone as they are about Gov. Andrew Cuomo,” Amy Brittain of The Washington Post wrote as she tweeted out the newspaper’s newest story on the embattled governor.

“I don’t think I have ever heard people as fearful to speak about someone as they are about Gov. Andrew Cuomo.”

— Amy Brittain, The Washington Post

“Former staffers described his rage & vindictiveness & said they feared he would destroy their careers,” she added.

In the Post story – for which Brittain shares a byline with journalists Josh Dawsey, Hannah Knowles and Tracy Jan (and three different contributors) – a former Cuomo press aide named Karen Hinton describes having been invited right into a lodge room and embraced by the governor earlier than she pulled away from him and left.

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The identical article provides that two male aides claimed Cuomo ceaselessly berated them with harsh language and questioned their manhood.

All of the allegations within the article had been denied by present Cuomo aides, with one referring to Hinton as a “known antagonist of the Governor’s” and the opposite saying he had “never” heard Cuomo use “coarse language.”

The Post article additionally says former staffers contend Cuomo has a “Jekyll-and-Hyde” character – charming at occasions and raging with anger at others.

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“You didn’t know which Andrew you were going to get,” an unnamed former appointee of the governor’s advised the Post.

She recalled one incident through which Cuomo allegedly yelled at her “like if I had killed somebody.”

“Like if I had killed somebody.”

— Former Cuomo appointee, recalling how governor allegedly yelled at her

“Not even my own parents had ever yelled at me the way he yelled at me,” she told the newspaper.

The behavioral points concerning Cuomo, as raised within the Post article, appeared to align with earlier accusations made final month by a Democratic New York state assemblyman, who claimed Cuomo as soon as referred to as him at house and berated him in a “terrorizing moment” that left his wife “crying and shaking.”

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Assemblyman Ron Kim stated the governor’s cellphone name matched a sample of “abusive behavior” that he had noticed from Cuomo.

In Twitter messages Saturday night time, Kim referred to as for Cuomo to resign and stated the state Legislature had “a constitutional duty” to impeach the governor if he doesn’t depart workplace.

“Cuomo’s reign of corruption, his vile abuse of power, his destruction of people’s lives can end,” Kim wrote, “if our state legislature has the courage to impeach.”