Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade Grill Eric Adams on Dropped Corruption Charges: They Didn’t Say ‘You’re Innocent’

Fox News’ Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade grilled New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) about the Trump administration’s decision to drop the criminal charges against him on Fox & Friends Friday morning.

During a discussion that also included Trump border czar Tom Homan largely centered around immigration enforcement, Doocy brought up the Department of Justice’s decision let Adams off, as well as former Acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon’s refusal to comply with the order, and subsequent resignation.

“You’ve been in the news all week. The Department of Justice dropped the criminal corruption charges against you. The U.S. Attorney here in New York City, the Southern District, she quit yesterday — the acting U.S. Attorney — and so did five members of the Department of Justice because they felt like being forced by the Department of Justice to drop the corruption charges was inappropriate, and they should not have asked,” observed Doocy. “And what she said was, she said you offered to help with the migration problem and the immigration agenda in exchange for the case being dropped.”

“Think about that, think about that. Think about my attorney, Alex Spiro, one of the top trial attorneys in the country. Imagine him going inside saying that, ‘The only way Mayor Adams is going to assist in immigration’ — which I was calling for, for 2022 — ‘is if you drop the charges,'” replied Adams. “That’s quid pro quo, that’s a crime. It took her three weeks to report in front of her a criminal action. Come on, this is silly.”

“They said when they gave you — when they dropped the charges, it says it’s not because we think he’s innocent. It says we think that it affects elections, that it’s going to affect his reelection. And we think that that was wrong,” jumped in Kilmeade, before clarifying his point: “When the Department of Justice dropped the charges, they said it’s not because they think the charges were unjust or that you’re innocent.”

“No, go, go deeper into what they wrote. They articulated exactly: weaponization,” shot back Adams. “When you looked at leg room turning into bribery because I asked for a governmental entity to do a building inspection, we need to be clear on the root of all of this –”

“Of the Turkish embassy,” pointed out Kilmeade.

Later in the conversation, Doocy hinted again at the possibility of Adams’s arrangement being a quid pro quo.

“As you know, Mayor, the way this particular case is being handled right now, they can refile the charges at any time. If you don’t help them, they could refile the charges,” he said.

“That’s not what they said,” insisted Adams.

“They can refile the charges, right?” continued Doocy.

“No, first of all, I don’t get into the legalese,” answered Adams. “I have an attorney to do that and I pay a lot for that.”

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