Its kind of embarrassing, isnt it?
How long until the actual begging and love letters start?
Adams hasnt explicitly asked for a pardon from Trump, who takes office next month.
President-elect Donald Trump (L). New York Mayor Eric Adams (R).Scott Olson/Getty Images; Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Images
But Adams apparent positioning for one wont just impact his own future.
Joe pardoned Hunter for all crimes he has committed or may have committed going back a decade.
Trump has shown no hesitation in issuing pardons to people being prosecuted by the Southern District of New York.
So I think thats a very real possibility.
Its become a running inside joke among some of Trumps senior staff that Adams is angling for a pardon.
But the two men have more than a little in common.
Both are outer borough showmen and party switchers with a flexible approach to the truth and ideology.
Both have a love/hate relationship with what they see as Manhattans liberal elite.
Americans have certain rights.
You know, the Constitution is for Americans.
And Adamsquickly walked it back on Friday.
His political opponentswerent exactly satisfied.
How Trump might help Adams is a matter of intense speculation in New York.
Trump could hand Adams a wide-ranging pardon, like the one Joe Biden gave his son.
Thats what brings him joy.
Immediately afterwards, that adviser, Ingrid Martin-Lewis, went on a radio show.
We are not thieves, she insisted.
And if the Adams team committed any crimes, they were small-scale.
During his previous term, Trump was willing to pardon high-profile allies like Bannon.
His co-conspirators, a former federal prosecutor notes, were hung out to dry.
The past track record of pardons with Trump were either close confidants or people who had some utility.
But someone who was an Adams deputy, the prosecutor says, wont necessarily be in the same position.
