From the New York Post:
Gov. Cuomo says: Trump ‘better have an army’ to protect him if he comes to NYC
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday all but threatened President Trump’s safety if he returns to New York City in a rant responding to an exclusive story by The Post that Trump is looking to pull federal funds from “lawless” cities including New York.
Cuomo called an emergency press briefing within a half hour on Wednesday night to tear into Trump for the order, which cites New York’s rising murder rate and defunding of the NYPD.
“He better have an army if he thinks he’s gonna walk down the street in New York. New Yorkers don’t want to have anything to do with him,” the Democrat said, all but threatening the commander in chief.
But Cuomo, who like Trump hails from Queens, wasn’t done. “He can’t have enough bodyguards to walk through New York City, people don’t want to have anything to do with him.”
Trump does have an army, it is the United States Army because he is the commander in chief.
More importantly, this sounds like Cuomo is threatening insurrection. Seriously, under what authority does the governor of a state tell the President of the United States that he can’t come to the state without facing a threat of violence?
Had some Red state said that to Obama, the Democrats would have called for Obama to invade that state with the military and have the governor shot for treason.
Cuomo got a taste of real power, not just New York power, but national power, from the COVID, and wants to throw his weight around and bully Trump.
So, in fact, I’m fine with Trump going to NYC and having a parade down 5th Avenue, accompanied by the 10th Mountain Division, just to show how much the President beats a governor in political dick measuring.
More and more, the Cuomo brothers show who they really are, the entitled sons of a former governor who think more like mafia bosses than politicians and journalists.
Cuomo is furious because Trump is threatening to pull Federal funding from liberal shitholes like NYC. I think Andrew is starting to realize how completely screwed NY is. The rich are leaving, the middle class in upstate is leaving, DeBlasio can’t conceal his communism, and crime is through the roof. In another generation, if America still exists, New York won’t be relevant in Presidential elections because it will have lost so many of its electoral votes.
Andy Cuomo, Jan 2014:
“Who are they? Right to life, pro-assault weapons, anti-gay — if that’s who they are, they have no place in the state of New York because that’s not who New Yorkers are.”
At least he’s consistent with being an a-hole.
Poor ol’ Andy’s had a rough go of it lately. He had to scramble to block an FOIA request regarding how NY was routing Covid patients. His state (particularly the city of NYC) is bleeding residents profusely, and the mayor — someone who SHOULD be working hand in fist with him — keeps sabotaging his efforts to retain those people by talking up additional taxes.
(Seriously, I would kill to be a fly on the wall during a conversation between deBolshevik and Cuomo. Watching those two work at cross purposes has been hilarious.)
He can block a FOIA request on COVID patient placements in nursing homes (whether he should be able to block a FOIA is another issue…), but he can’t stop the federal DOJ from investigating it.
Hell, Trump could probably take over New York city with just the people and equipment of the Secret Service. Members who are former military, even Spec Ops, former FBI HRT, other armed Federal and State LEO and Swat. Helicopters, armored vehicles, top of the line comms and signal intelligence gear.
They even have their very own portable SAM missle launcher.