HE SQUEALS, N.Y. REELS AT THIS PIG

‘MOMENT OF RECKONING’

He just doesn’t get it. Most of them don’t, not even when the houses they built on shameful lies are falling down around them, and every woman from here to Hollywood has a story of how these men brutalized them in ways too disgusting to detail. Eric Schneiderman is a pig. And I know I should say “alleged pig,” because, as prosecutors like to point out in their press releases, the allegations against them are just accusations that haven’t been proven in a . . . blah blah blah. Here’s what we do have proof of. Two hours and 57 minutes passed between the time The New Yorker dropped its bombshell report about Schneiderman and the four women he beat on, and the press release announcing his resignation hit my inbox. In that time, Schneiderman, 63, issued two statements, both of which were disgraceful. The first one included some nonsense about “role playing” and “consensual activity” in the “privacy of intimate relationships.” “I have not assaulted anyone,” Schneiderman said in the statement. “I have never engaged in nonconsensual sex, which is a line I would not cross.” Good to know. But before you could say hypocrite, Schneiderman was out with another statement, this one more egregious than the first. “While these allegations are unrelated to my professional conduct or the operations of the office, they will effectively prevent me from leading the office’s work at this critical time,” he said in the second statement. Unrelated to his professional conduct or the operations of the office? So Schneiderman wants us to believe that he could be accused of beating up four different women, choking them, spitting at them and slapping one so hard she was bleeding from her ear canal, and still be effective at his job, which, by the way, is protecting women like them from monsters like him. Pig. And why did he need two statements to resign? It was clear in the first statement that crawling into a hole hadn’t crossed his mind yet. It was not until a long list of elected officials, including Gov. Cuomo and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, expressed their outrage that Schneiderman decided to step down. Sayitwithme—PIG. And off to the slaughterhouse you go.