This is an extremely strange denial from Governor Cuomo. It ignores most of Lindsey Boylan's allegations, contradicts a claim that she didn't make, and offers a rebuttal from four staffers without so much as asserting that they're in a position to make such a rebuttal reliably.
https://twitter.com/JimmyVielkind/status/1364656908733407238
Boylan makes a series of allegations against Cuomo today, and the only one his office denies specifically isn't close to being the most serious. And again, that one denial is highly misleading. medium.com/@lindseyboylan…
Cuomo's office says, as if it's somehow damning, that Boylan was never alone with Cuomo, a press aide, and a state trooper on a October 2017 flight. But she doesn't say she was, just that on the flight in question "His press aide was to my right and a state trooper behind us."
And the actual denial comes collectively from four individuals who say they were each on all of the relevant possible flights, but there's no indication of how they can be certain the Cuomo statement in question—just four words—was never uttered.
Was one or more of them seated next to Cuomo at all times? Or perhaps Boylan? Have they interviewed all relevant troopers and press aides? One would expect them to say so, if any of this were the case. But they don't.
Maybe it's just a rushed and poorly-worded statement, and a less obviously flimsy denial is forthcoming. But as it stands, it strikes me as more problematic than no denial at all.
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