![]() ![]() He got the message, and Cuomo sealed the deal in a call the next day, starting a very brief, very uneasy peace. ![]() “There will be violence, there will be mayhem, and it will be your fault.” My voice had risen to a near-shout without me even realizing it.” The NYPD would freak out and anti-Trump protesters would take to the streets, DeRosa writes. We’ve called on Andrew to use the National Guard for over a month, and he seems unwilling to do it, so what other options do we have?” “It’s the president’s home city, and we can’t trust de Blasio to get things under control. “It’s certainly on the table, Melissa,” DeRosa recalls Kushner saying in a July 2020 phone call. Over resignation.Īmbitious aides, however, will love her stories of being in the governor’s mansion or at the Capitol where it happened, or, in one episode, convincing former President Donald Trump to call off his plan to send federal troops to fight crime in New York City by yelling at Jared Kushner. Over the governor’s memoir on the state’s pandemic response. When DeRosa isn’t settling scores, the book reads like a testimony for the defense: Over closing businesses during the pandemic. “They allowed him to take the lead driving the coverage of a #MeToo story.” And it’s important that readers know that when evaluating the press’s role in Cuomo’s resignation, she said. DeRosa’s characterization of the events” - that’s hypocritical, DeRosa said. It’s the Times - which told The Washington Post a review “did not substantiate Ms. Why do that, after so ardently defending Cuomo from, in her words, “seemingly frivolous” harassment allegations? And New York Times Albany Bureau Chief Jesse McKinley was pulled off Cuomo coverage because DeRosa filed a complaint with the paper that he’d engaged in inappropriate conduct with her in 2020. Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown was Cuomo’s top choice for a 2014 running mate. President Joe Biden personally convinced Cuomo not to run for president in 2020. Some of the newsiest bits have been shared with journalists already. Andrew Cuomo, has a new book out that she says sets the record straight on those behind the governor's demise in 2021. ![]() Melissa DeRosa, the former top aide to Gov. But a publicist for DeRosa said there’s no plans for legal action against the magazine. The two had a frosty relationship from Traister’s previous coverage of the administration - the writer herself is criticized in the book - and DeRosa wanted a different reviewer assigned. In fact, DeRosa threatened to sue New York magazine for writer Rebecca Traister’s piece on the book, Semafor reported. “There’s a little bit of desperation here.” “There’s a lot of eyerolls” among Albany insiders talking about the book, said another political consultant, who like the first, was granted anonymity to speak freely about the book. “This seems like a big ‘I went down, he went down, I’m trying to take people down with me.’” “It just seems like retribution,” one consultant close to the Cuomo administration told POLITICO. That part is just like the closing credits of a movie, she said, filling the reader in on where everybody ended up.Įngaged readers of New York political news - the people who would read the memoir released Tuesday, “What’s Left Unsaid: My Life at the Center of Power, Politics & Crisis” - already know where everybody ended up. “This is not a burn book, this is not public revenge,” DeRosa said in an interview with POLITICO. Kathy Hochul, former Mayor Bill de Blasio and Charlotte Bennett, an aide who accused Cuomo of sexually harassing her. Others getting the “where are they now” treatment include Gov. ![]() She didn’t respond to a request for comment. Biaggi is a former Democratic state senator and was among the loudest critics of the Cuomo administration in the state Legislature. ![]()
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