As he made abundantly clear during a press conference earlier today, Andrew Cuomo clearly has no plans to resign. Replete with denials and a few decidedly Trumpian flourishes, parts of the press event featuring New York’s scandal-plagued governor absolutely defied belief.

Among other things, Cuomo — son of a former governor and previously married to a Kennedy — sought to position himself as an outsider besieged by the professional political establishment. “I am not part of the political club,” declared the governor midway through his statement, before adding a few minutes later: “I have been under public scrutiny since I was twenty-three years old and I ran my father’s campaign.”

In what appears to have been a scripted line he delivered twice in quick succession, Cuomo also made evident how he intends to frame the growing deluge of complaints and allegations against him: “People know the difference between playing politics, bowing to cancel culture, and the truth.”