Alec sees ‘dreadful’ betrayal

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ONE-TIME ERIC Schneiderman advocate Alec Baldwin was surprised to learn the former top New York prosecutor is now part of the #MeToo movement for all the wrong reasons.

While the politically active actor wouldn’t address Monday’s New Yorker magazine article alleging the 63-year-old Democrat physically assaulted four women while in office, he told the Daily News it’s time to move on.

“If he did these things, and there’s a strong possibility that he did or he wouldn’t resign so quickly ...”Baldwin told The News. “If he did these things, that’s dreadful.”

Baldwin was an outspoken supporter of Schneiderman, whose candidacy for attorney general the “30 Rock” star publicly endorsed in 2010. He still believes Schneiderman did great work.

“There are people who are effective and people who are progressive, and he was the most effective and progressive simultaneously,” Baldwin (photo) said.

According to Baldwin, the AG’s office was on the right track under Schneiderman, and it’s crucial it stays on that trajectory under Barbara Underwood, who was named acting attorney general following Schneiderman’s resignation Tuesday.

“You can sit there and be really upset and sad about it for a day, then you think, we have to move on,” he said. “No one saw this coming, believe me. ”

Baldwin sees parallels between Schneiderman’s downfall and that of former Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who was elected governor in 2007, only to resign a year later following a prostitution scandal.

“It was two brilliant men who were great public servants who people had a lot of hopes for, in terms of the long games of their career,” he said.

Baldwin says he interviewed Schneiderman last week for his NPR broadcast “Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin,” which he’d planned to air in two weeks. NPR planned to post that podcast as soon as possible.