Eric Adamsand his lawyersinsistthere was no deal.
But Adams still isnt able to be that omnipresent partner to the feds, and may never be.
Eight Justice Department officials quit over what they saw as a corrupt deal.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams holds a press conference on June 11, 2024.Adam Gray/Getty Images
Adams went down to Mar-a-Lago and to Donald Trumps inauguration.
It was all so over-the-top, Trump and his team laughed at the thirsty mayor.
Adams eventually got a deal from Trump, but its clear his strategy has backfired spectacularly.
New Yorkers know exactly what this is.
But once he went all in, people were like, Oh, nah, nah.
Were not having it.
But they focused largely on the political and policy implications of a mayor facing five felony counts.
Its worth noting that the NYPD is strictly prohibited from working with federal authorities on civil immigration matters.
We never said or suggested to anyone that Mayor Adams would do X in exchange for Y.
By dismissing Adams case only temporarily, they made it seem like they were forcing the mayor into subservience.
Al Sharpton who has known Adams since the then-cop was the activists bodyguard expressed his disgust with the arrangement.
Eric Adams, who once proclaimed himself the future of the Democratic Party, is on political life support.
His bet to cozy up to Trump appears to have been a bust.
He warned Adams that he would be up his butt if he wasnt sufficiently helpful to Homans deportation push.
This is a time when the City of New York needs a guardian at the gate, right?
Some political observers ask what Adams was supposed to do instead.
This is one of the arguments the mayors lawyers used in their letter to Bove.
At least this way, the argument goes, he stays out of jail.
Adams has brought down crime as promised, and helped the city rebound from Covid.
Theres a record to run on, if an uneven one.
He is unfairly being targeted.
And I dont like the fact that hes undergoing so much of this consistent scrutiny, he tells me.
Like, you cant win to save his life.
Adams himself has been one step ahead of investigators for years.
And the craziest part is, they saw it all coming.
A little more than two weeks later, she was very publicly contemplating doing exactly that.
