"I resigned as governor, the press roasted me, my colleagues were ridiculed, my brother was fired, it was ugly. It was the first time that I was glad that my father wasn’t here so he didn’t have to see it," he said.
"No one ever told me I made them feel uncomfortable and I never sensed that I caused any discomfort to anyone. I was trying to do the opposite, but I understand that was my error," Cuomo said, while also acknowledging the criticism that he was out of touch and old-fashioned.
"With cancel culture, we now live in a frightening new world where any accusation can trigger condemnation without facts, without due process. We are a nation of laws – not a nation of Tweets," he said. "Social media and Twitter spread cancel culture like a virus. They allow the extreme minority to overpower the reasonable majority."
"The actions against me were prosecutorial misconduct," he stressed. "They used cancel culture to effectively overturn an election."
“I didn’t appreciate how fast the perspectives changed,” he said on Sunday. “I’ve learned a powerful lesson and paid a very high price for learning that lesson. God isn’t finished with me yet.”