July 16, 2025 • 6 mins
Jeffrey Lichtman joins Mendte in the Morning to talk about Andrew Cuomo officially announcing his run for NYC Mayor on the independent line after losing the Democratic primary.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Raring to go because Andrew Cuomo is back in the race.
He's the high profile criminal defense attorney host of Beyond
the Legal Limit podcast found on the iHeartRadio app. You know, Jeffrey,
as I was watching how Cuomo played this out, it
was really kind of fascinating. He had his own poll
out showing how well he was going to do. He
(00:21):
had lots of people come out in the media saying
that we need them in the race, and we need
Eric Adams to drop out. And then finally he gets
in Jeffrey and he says, you know, I agree with
all of them. It seems like he sets it up
the same way every single time, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Well, you know, Andrew Cuomo was a disgusting opportunist. He's
a liar, he's you know, he's a politician. I mean,
this is what he is. Larry, we know what he is.
They're all the same. I can't tell you that I
think that any of the three choices that are left
are palatable. They're all frankly losers when it comes to
politics at this point, when you talk about Eric Adams
(01:01):
at Mushmouse, or our current mayor whose approval rating is
in the teens, and has the gall to say to Culomo, well,
you already lost, let's get some fresh blood in there. Well, dude,
if you were like even a quality politician at this point,
you would have run in the Democratic primary. The reason
he didn't run is because he knew we couldn't win.
(01:24):
So now he thinks, all of a sudden, he's the
guy who should be running. They're all bad. Clomo's already
gotten sumped. His prior polls that were done had him winning,
blowing out Mandani, and then look what happens. He got
killed himself. Curtis Leewa runs for every possible office, you know,
mayor Dogcatcher, can't win any of them. He's got no
(01:47):
chance of winning in November. We can stop pretending. And
the fact that all three of them, none of them
will drop out, is nauseating, because we are going to
get a communist Hamas's supporter for mayor in the greatest
city in the world, and this will be the end
of New York City. He's telling us what he's going
to do. He's not even hiding it. This psychopaths. And
(02:08):
the fact that the three of them refused to even
consider dropping out. Now Cuomo and I loathe Cuomo. Let
me make that clear. At least he says, let's convene
pulls and it's September. Whoever is ahead says in the
others of us have to drop out. You know, I
have to say, you know, I think it should be
(02:29):
earlier than September. I think it's too late. I think
it should be sometime, you know, probably within the next
thirty days. But these guys are politicians, they're opportunistic grifters.
I mean Adams obviously is a criminal and belongs in
a cage. He should be in a tight cage. He
can't even get matching funds, either because he's a criminal
or because he's too lazy to file the paper where
(02:51):
there's always a reason why this useless grifter and I
can't get anything done. He's destroyed New York City as
it is, and now he's going to put the final
nail on the coff by refusing to drop out. We
are getting mundane. And I told you that, Larry, when
we had the Democratic primary and he won. I told you,
I bet anything that he's going to be our next mayor.
It's clear that it's happening now.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, I agree with you, and I wasn't with you
at the time, maybe because I didn't want to believe it.
But it's not just because there's three people running against him.
It seems like the Democratic Party is excited about him.
I think there is a wing of the party that
is fearful, but you know, they're lost right now and
(03:32):
they're looking for a way forward, and unfortunately they're looking
at him as possibly a way forward. So I don't
think this is just going to be the demise of
the City of New York, but maybe a longer demise
of the Democratic Party. What do you think?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
You know, I don't think so, because the Democratic Party
is about to win this mayoral race. So maybe the
Democratic Party this is spreading and now maybe this will
be sweeping across the country. The fact the people that
are voting him, voting for him are highly energized. They
don't have any money, they don't care that they don't
have any money. They want to take from everybody else.
(04:09):
They hate Jews, they hate America. This is what the
Democratic Party is, and everybody else is too lazy to
get out of bed and vote. I mean, think how
preposterous it is that a guy like this, this is
an absolute friggin cockroach of a human being is going
to become mayor and no one seems to really care.
It's astonishing. But what I'll say is this, Look, it's
(04:32):
if it doesn't happen in this election cycle, Larry, if
somehow a two out of the three idiots that are
running against him drop out and somehow they beat him
this time, it is happening in the near future. If
it's not this election, it'll be the next one. If
it's not the next one, it will surely be the
one after. This is what America is becoming. We've been
(04:55):
unchecked immigration. We've had savages who hate America who have
been f funneled in here by foreign nations, and we've
done nothing to stop it. In addition, we've handed our
schools over to these leftist brainwashing psychopaths who are changing
what our kids thinks. We're allowing our colleges to feed
kids anti Semitism, anti American ideas. And this is what
(05:20):
is happening, Larry. It will happen, And that the very
first thing when I'm asking you this is that when
he wins, I absolutely hope that you and every other
talking head on TV and radio in America points to Sliwa,
points to Eric Adams that mushmouth in the club, Mayor,
and points to Cuomo and says, this is your fault.
(05:42):
They should be shunned, they should be forced to walk
around with dunce caps ons for what they're doing allowing
this to happen.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Oh, I think that is going to happen. I think
it's going to happen even before the election. There's going
to be a lot of pressure on somebody to drop out.
Jeffrey Lickman always great to talk to you. Thanks so much.
Jeffrey Lickman, criminal defense attorney, host of Beyond the Legal
Limit podcast. You really should find that on the iHeartRadio app.
If you like what you just heard, you're gonna love
(06:10):
that podcast. Jeffrey, thanks so much, Thanks.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
For having me. Larry
Raring to go because Andrew Cuomo is back in the race.
He's the high profile criminal defense attorney host of Beyond
the Legal Limit podcast found on the iHeartRadio app. You know, Jeffrey,
as I was watching how Cuomo played this out, it
was really kind of fascinating. He had his own poll
out showing how well he was going to do. He
(00:21):
had lots of people come out in the media saying
that we need them in the race, and we need
Eric Adams to drop out. And then finally he gets
in Jeffrey and he says, you know, I agree with
all of them. It seems like he sets it up
the same way every single time, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Well, you know, Andrew Cuomo was a disgusting opportunist. He's
a liar, he's you know, he's a politician. I mean,
this is what he is. Larry, we know what he is.
They're all the same. I can't tell you that I
think that any of the three choices that are left
are palatable. They're all frankly losers when it comes to
politics at this point, when you talk about Eric Adams
(01:01):
at Mushmouse, or our current mayor whose approval rating is
in the teens, and has the gall to say to Culomo, well,
you already lost, let's get some fresh blood in there. Well, dude,
if you were like even a quality politician at this point,
you would have run in the Democratic primary. The reason
he didn't run is because he knew we couldn't win.
(01:24):
So now he thinks, all of a sudden, he's the
guy who should be running. They're all bad. Clomo's already
gotten sumped. His prior polls that were done had him winning,
blowing out Mandani, and then look what happens. He got
killed himself. Curtis Leewa runs for every possible office, you know,
mayor Dogcatcher, can't win any of them. He's got no
(01:47):
chance of winning in November. We can stop pretending. And
the fact that all three of them, none of them
will drop out, is nauseating, because we are going to
get a communist Hamas's supporter for mayor in the greatest
city in the world, and this will be the end
of New York City. He's telling us what he's going
to do. He's not even hiding it. This psychopaths. And
(02:08):
the fact that the three of them refused to even
consider dropping out. Now Cuomo and I loathe Cuomo. Let
me make that clear. At least he says, let's convene
pulls and it's September. Whoever is ahead says in the
others of us have to drop out. You know, I
have to say, you know, I think it should be
(02:29):
earlier than September. I think it's too late. I think
it should be sometime, you know, probably within the next
thirty days. But these guys are politicians, they're opportunistic grifters.
I mean Adams obviously is a criminal and belongs in
a cage. He should be in a tight cage. He
can't even get matching funds, either because he's a criminal
or because he's too lazy to file the paper where
(02:51):
there's always a reason why this useless grifter and I
can't get anything done. He's destroyed New York City as
it is, and now he's going to put the final
nail on the coff by refusing to drop out. We
are getting mundane. And I told you that, Larry, when
we had the Democratic primary and he won. I told you,
I bet anything that he's going to be our next mayor.
It's clear that it's happening now.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, I agree with you, and I wasn't with you
at the time, maybe because I didn't want to believe it.
But it's not just because there's three people running against him.
It seems like the Democratic Party is excited about him.
I think there is a wing of the party that
is fearful, but you know, they're lost right now and
(03:32):
they're looking for a way forward, and unfortunately they're looking
at him as possibly a way forward. So I don't
think this is just going to be the demise of
the City of New York, but maybe a longer demise
of the Democratic Party. What do you think?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
You know, I don't think so, because the Democratic Party
is about to win this mayoral race. So maybe the
Democratic Party this is spreading and now maybe this will
be sweeping across the country. The fact the people that
are voting him, voting for him are highly energized. They
don't have any money, they don't care that they don't
have any money. They want to take from everybody else.
(04:09):
They hate Jews, they hate America. This is what the
Democratic Party is, and everybody else is too lazy to
get out of bed and vote. I mean, think how
preposterous it is that a guy like this, this is
an absolute friggin cockroach of a human being is going
to become mayor and no one seems to really care.
It's astonishing. But what I'll say is this, Look, it's
(04:32):
if it doesn't happen in this election cycle, Larry, if
somehow a two out of the three idiots that are
running against him drop out and somehow they beat him
this time, it is happening in the near future. If
it's not this election, it'll be the next one. If
it's not the next one, it will surely be the
one after. This is what America is becoming. We've been
(04:55):
unchecked immigration. We've had savages who hate America who have
been f funneled in here by foreign nations, and we've
done nothing to stop it. In addition, we've handed our
schools over to these leftist brainwashing psychopaths who are changing
what our kids thinks. We're allowing our colleges to feed
kids anti Semitism, anti American ideas. And this is what
(05:20):
is happening, Larry. It will happen, And that the very
first thing when I'm asking you this is that when
he wins, I absolutely hope that you and every other
talking head on TV and radio in America points to Sliwa,
points to Eric Adams that mushmouth in the club, Mayor,
and points to Cuomo and says, this is your fault.
(05:42):
They should be shunned, they should be forced to walk
around with dunce caps ons for what they're doing allowing
this to happen.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Oh, I think that is going to happen. I think
it's going to happen even before the election. There's going
to be a lot of pressure on somebody to drop out.
Jeffrey Lickman always great to talk to you. Thanks so much.
Jeffrey Lickman, criminal defense attorney, host of Beyond the Legal
Limit podcast. You really should find that on the iHeartRadio app.
If you like what you just heard, you're gonna love
(06:10):
that podcast. Jeffrey, thanks so much, Thanks.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
For having me. Larry
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