‘I Helped Him Out’: Trump Brags About Getting Prosecution of Eric Adams Shut Down in Shocking Remark
President Donald Trump boasted on Tuesday that he “helped out” New York City Mayor Eric Adams after the Justice Department indicted the then Democrat on various corruption charges related to the country of Turkey.
Trump was asked about Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani during a presser in Florida, and after vowing to arrest Mamdani if he were to interfere with ICE operations as mayor, turned his attention to Adams — who skipped the Democratic primary to run as an independent.
“It’s been a long time since a Republican won the city, but you would think that a Republican would be able to win. Or you have a good independent running—Mayor Adams, who’s a very good person. I helped him out a little bit,” Trump said, adding:
He had a problem, and he was unfairly hurt over this question. He made a statement to the effect that “this is terrible. New York City can’t have all these immigrants come in.” And, like, he was indicted the following day. And I said that was a phony indictment, and it was a phony indictment.
That was a Biden indictment. I said, “Don’t feel bad. I got indicted five times every time you opened your mouth.” That was a bad group. It was a very dangerous group, I will tell you. These were not nice people. That was the only thing they could do. They had no policy, they had no skill, they didn’t know anything. But they were very good at that. They were vicious, vicious, horrible people.
The federal corruption charges against Adams were dropped by a judge in early April, following the Trump Justice Department’s move to have the case dismissed.
Judge Dale Ho agreed to dismiss the case “with prejudice,” meaning the case cannot be retried later on the same charges. Adams was accused in court of having fast-tracked the safety permitting of building for the Turkish government in exchange for luxury travel gifts. Trump DOJ pressure to dismiss the case led to widespread resignations in the Justice Department earlier in the year and accusations of a “quid pro quo” between Adams and the Trump administration.
Judge Ho noted in his ruling to dismiss the case that he did not believe the charges against Adams, brought by a DOJ led by Biden appointees, were in any way politically motivated. Judge Ho wrote, “there is no evidence — zero — that they had improper motives” in the DOJ charging Adams, but did take a swipe at the Trump officials desire to dismiss the charges.
“Everything here smacks of a bargain: dismissal of the Indictment in exchange for immigration policy concessions,” Ho wrote, later adding, “Ultimately, because the decision to discontinue a prosecution belongs primarily to a political branch of government, it is the public’s judgment, and not this Court’s, that truly matters.”
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