Posted on 03/15/2025 10:41:33 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Donald J. Trump’s electoral victory alarmed most New York Democrats — but not Eric Adams. For Mr. Adams, the mayor of New York City who had been criminally indicted and faced political isolation, it was a golden opportunity.
In the weeks before the presidential inauguration, Mr. Adams cozied up to Mr. Trump, his political allies and his family.
The mayor called the president-elect on multiple occasions, congratulating him on his election victory and discussing city affairs. He met at a luxury Manhattan hotel with Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trump’s ally and former top aide. And he contacted the president’s second son, Eric Trump, who runs the Trump family business.
The previously unreported extent of the charm campaign was recounted in interviews with more than a dozen people knowledgeable about the effort, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the nature of the communications.
The effort culminated in Mr. Adams receiving an in-person meeting with Mr. Trump in Florida just days before the inauguration.
While Mr. Adams did not explicitly raise his corruption case at the Florida meeting, the people said, Mr. Trump appeared sympathetic to the mayor’s legal plight. The president-elect, on the verge of attaining the power to make the mayor’s case disappear, lamented that the Justice Department under President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was “weaponized.”
Mr. Adams has said that he was there on city business, and that his outreach to Mr. Trump was normal political bridge-building, irrelevant to his criminal case. A City Hall spokeswoman noted he was not the only Democrat who has sought to find some common ground with Mr. Trump.
“Mayor Adams wants to work with the new president, and not war with him, to better the lives of New Yorkers,” Liz Garcia, the city hall spokeswoman, said in a statement...”
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Adams must have the goods on a bunch of NYC politicians.
Adams was a republic a long time ago.
As far as nyc mayors go, he’s considered a far right traitor to the left and so he got what they thought he had coming to him.
His stance on abortion alone makes him a hardcore dem.
But he dared have the idea the more police could help, that illegals pouring in was bad an though he paid lip service to the trans insanity, it seemed even he did not believe his words.
He’s STILL one of them...but one of the less insane ones.
What a compliment for a party :)
Trump helped him for one reason only. It was because Adams was unfairly targeted by the Biden regime just like him.
Trump helped him for one reason only: because “Adams was
unfairly targeted by the Biden regime” just like Trump was.
5 ADULTS TO WRITE THIS CRAP.
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