This whole Saga is wild. Eric Adams was accused of accepting opulent gifts, expensive meals, and subsequent campaign donations from Turkish nationals. In return, Mayor Adams allegedly did favors for the Turkish leadership such as expediting fire safety inspections and staying quiet about the Armenian genocide.
Original article about Adams' indictment
According to the linked AP article, the reason for the DoJ dropping the charges is because;
that a powerful defendant could be too occupied with official duties to face accountability for alleged crimes
I very much prefer that my "powerful" defendants are always able and ready to face accountability for their alleged crimes.
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Some additional details not included in the post:
Eric Adams went to Mara-Lago to [kiss the ring](https://apnews.com/article/trump-nyc-mayor-adams-meet-2ff982aab9f52f892433dd9e13875721) just before Trump was inaugurated.
The charges are being dropped *without prejudice*. This means that any time Adams pisses off the Trump administration, BAM, charges can be brought back in the blink of an eye.
Eric Adams is not an outlier. High-profile Uniparty politicians are all corrupt, many of them doing far worse than Adams. And they all protect each other.
Adams made the mistake of crossing the Democratic Party in a HUGE way. He dared to speak out about illegal immigration. He dared to complain that the influx of hundreds of thousands of illegals was hurting his city. It can’t be underestimated how fucking BAD it was for the Dem Party when he said that. It’s like if some Republican Mayor of a huge city gave a press conference announcing their plan to become a sanctuary city and criticized Trump’s deportation efforts.
So of course, what happened is the Dem Party-controlled federal prosecutors at SDNY dug up everything they could find in Adams’ past (or more likely, they already knew his crimes but were holding them as blackmail) and dramatically announced the charges.
It was meant to send a lesson to all Democratic politicians: You can disagree on minor details, but if you ever push back on one of our major narrative points, we will destroy you.
Trump knows it was lawfare, and that’s why he’s now involved…so he can dunk on the Dems.