State Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani eviscerated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a scathing confrontation over allegations of sexual harassment on Wednesday.
“In 2021, 13 different women who worked in your administration credibly accused you of sexual harassment,” Mamdani said during a fiery exchange at Wednesday’s New York City mayoral debate. “Since then, you have spent more than $20 million in taxpayer funds to defend yourself all while describing these allegations as entirely political. You have even gone so far as to legally go after these women. One of those women, Charlotte Bennett, is here in the audience this evening. You sought to access her private gynecological records.”
Mamdani went on: “She cannot speak up for herself because you lodged a defamation case against her. I, however, can speak. What do you say to the 13 women that you sexually harassed?”
As the audience applauded, Cuomo seemed to grasp for a response, only to say, “If you want to be in government, then you have to be serious and mature.”
“There were allegations of sexual harassment,” he added. “They were then, went to five district attorneys, fully litigated for four years, the cases were dropped, right? You know that as a fact. So everything you just stated, you just said, was a misstatement.”
