Cuomo’s Credibility Crash

Gov. Cuomo’s credibility stands in shreds just hours before Thursday’s primary, as fresh evidence puts his fingerprints all over what he insists are just a series of remarkable coincidences. As The Post’s Bruce Golding reports, a top Cuomo campaign official e-mailed this paper trying to plant a news story that mirrored the same points contained in that dirty-trick mailer accusing opponent Cynthia Nixon of being “silent on anti-Semitism.”

That would be the very same mailer the notoriously hands-on governor insisted he knew nothing about and hadn’t even seen, even though it was sent by the Democratic State Committee — which he funds and controls.

And, tellingly, for which he refuses to say whether anyone should be fired.

Meanwhile, The New York Times reports that Team Cuomo offered the contractor building the Mario Cuomo Bridge financial and legal enticements to finish the project by the end of August.

That conveniently allowed the governor to take a pre-primary victory lap with a lavish ribbon-cutting ceremony featuring Hillary Clinton. Except that the actual opening had to be delayed because of what engineers called a “potentially dangerous situation.”

Cuomo calls “nonsensical” any suggestion his folks played a role in the timing of the bridge’s opening. The document uncovered by the Times shows that they did.

We’ve seen this before: In a rush to complete the Second Avenue subway by a Cuomo-imposed deadline, the Cuomo-controlled MTA skipped final safety testing, leaving some 17,000 defects unfixed. The fire-alarm system was still being tested even as the trains began running.

Similarly, Cuomo has been linked to scurrilous campaign literature dating back to 1977 (he denies any involvement).

Denial after denial, “coincidence” upon “coincidence”: At this point, Andrew Cuomo has forfeited any right to the benefit of the doubt.