Bill de Blasio Defends Eric Adams in Stunning Moment on CNN: ‘Very Flimsy’ Charges

Former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio defended his successor, Mayor Eric Adams, in a stunning moment on CNN Friday.

After being indicted for his involvement in a foreign corruption scheme last fall, Adams was granted a reprieve when the Department of Justice ordered the office prosecuting his case to drop the charges against him.

Rather than comply with the order, Acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon resigned, accusing the administration and Adams of participating in a quid pro quo.

On CNN, de Blasio disagreed strenuously:

I think there’s more than one thing going on, and I fear they’re all kind of being blended together in a way that’s just not fair and not accurate. What is happening in Washington, the Justice Department in general, is, to me, a travesty. I’m talking about everything we’re seeing, the overt politicization of the Justice Department. Obviously, Attorney General Bondi has an enemies list, whether she acknowledged it in her confirmation hearings or not. There’s a lot that’s going on that’s extremely problematic.

That is a different question than what’s happening with Mayor Adams. The notion that Mayor Adams has a position on immigration that might be different than some other Democrats — all you have to do is pay attention to what he’s been saying for years to see that difference. I don’t happen to agree with him on a number of things he says or does, but I don’t think it’s fair to say, because he has that view, that therefore there’s a quid pro quo. I don’t see evidence of a quid pro quo. I also think, and I’ve said it for a while, that the original charges brought against him appeared to me to be very flimsy.

The mistake here, I think, is the Justice Department could have and should have said ‘These charges are just not strong enough to continue to pursue.’ Apparently in some of what they put out today, they actually do say that. But that’s the way they should have handled it. They shouldn’t have kept it an open prosecution, they should have said ‘There’s nothing there’s not enough here to continue with. So we’re dropping the case.’

Watch above via CNN.