Andrew Cuomo lacks the requisite shame to allow a series of sexual harassment allegations to tank his career. But the New York governor’s de facto denial of the allegations was damning all the same.

In a Wednesday press conference, the Democrat seemed keen to have his cake and eat it too. He tried to defend his penchant for kissing people with the ultimate Cuomo get-out-of-jail-free card (blame being Italian and invoking his father Mario) while asserting he “never touched anyone inappropriately.”