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‘I Did the Right Thing’: Andrew Cuomo Vows Not to Disappear

Cuomo said he believes he would have won an impeachment trial, but he didn’t want to put the state through the wringer.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo may have resigned Tuesday after a damning state attorney general report detailed repeated sexual misconduct—but he believes if he stayed and fought impeachment, he would have won.

“I did the right thing. I did the right thing for the state,” he told New York magazine in his first post-resignation interview. “I’m not gonna drag the state through the mud, through a three-month, four-month impeachment, and then win, and have made the State Legislature and the state government look like a ship of fools, when everything I’ve done all my life was for the exact opposite.”

Cuomo’s resignation apparently does not signal a retirement from public life, however, he declared. “I’m not disappearing. I have a voice, I have a perspective and that’s not gonna change,” he said. Regarding the lingering question of where Cuomo will live after leaving Albany, the soon-to-be ex-governor seems unbothered: “The details aren’t really that important to me to tell you the truth.”