If you'd stood up in 2017 (five years ago) and said both (a governor and a CNN bigwig) would be victims....folks would have laughed at you. Today? Yes, they've made themselves (without much effort) into victims.
I don't think this was intentional.
They both had a strategy of controlling their 'descent' down a negative path, and neither had the ability to stop the descent or change the final outcome.
Do we the public owe them anything? No.
What'll happen over the next twelve months? The CNN-Cuomo will likely get some final pay-out.....probably less than 30-million. The Governor-Cuomo will just simply walk away and hopefully never be interviewed by the NY Times ever again.
I'll predict this though....by 2030....someone will attempt to make a ten-hour mini-series over this, and tell the two stories. I don't think anyone will really care about the story though.
