Andrew Cuomo Slammed for Writing Book on Pandemic Response: ‘Arrogance and Gaslighting’
Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) is coming out with a book about his experiences leading the Empire State through the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic.
Via press release reported on by multiple outlets, Crown Publishing, a Penguin Random House imprint, announced that it will release the book — titled “American Crisis” — on Oct. 13. The book will apparently include Cuomo’s “personal reflections and the decision-making that shaped his policy, and … his frank accounting and assessment of his interactions with the federal government and the White House, as well as other state and local political and health officials.”
Cuomo, in an excerpt of the book obtained by the AP, admitted to feeling fear as he managed the early stages of the ongoing pandemic.
“The questions are what do you do with the fear and would you succumb to it,” Cuomo wrote. “I would not allow the fear to control me. The fear kept my adrenaline high and that was a positive. But I would not let the fear be a negative, and I would not spread it. Fear is a virus also.”
The governor — who touted New York’s response to the pandemic during his DNC convention speech Monday night — received high marks for his handling of the outbreak early on, checking in as high as 87 percent in one major late March poll. But since then the governor has come under serious criticism over the large number of nursing home deaths in the state.
Cuomo recently dismissed that criticism as “politically motivated” and said, “I believe it is a political issue. I think it’s the New York Post, I think it’s Michael Goodwin, I think it’s Bob McManus, I think it’s Fox TV.”
The governor writing a book on the pandemic raised eyebrows, to put it mildly, for several reasons:
His arrogance and gaslighting knows no boundaries.
— Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) August 18, 2020
It does not surprise me one bit that @NYGovCuomo is writing a book to profit off the thousands of people that died because of his terrible leadership.
— Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) August 18, 2020
32,000 people did from COVID-19 in New York. Andrew Cuomo presided over the most catastrophic outbreak in the world and failed to keep these people alive.
Now he's writing a book about it. https://t.co/cNtEUAgW5o
— Ross Barkan (@RossBarkan) August 18, 2020
I’m gonna put Andrew Cuomo’s book on responsible COVID responses on my shelf right next to Carole Baskin’s book on marital conflict resolution.
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) August 18, 2020
WTF. He’s writing a book in the midst of an ongoing crisis??? https://t.co/SNKxMwBzWo
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) August 18, 2020
Perhaps he will address this in the book but New York made many mistakes which undoubtedly cost lives. They should get credit for learning from those mistakes and getting the virus under more control. But it is not a simple success story.
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) August 18, 2020
I didn’t realize this whole thing was over and elected officials had time to write books and reflect on it now https://t.co/pNfPIzcJmb
— Carlos Lozada (@CarlosLozadaWP) August 18, 2020
This is hideous and yet befitting Cuomo. https://t.co/tcfomz08Xv
— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) August 18, 2020
This is like if George Bush wrote a self-congratulatory memoir about Hurricane Katrina a few weeks after the storm hit https://t.co/RS4mkW09KS
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) August 18, 2020
——
