Eric Adams Suggests the Biden Pardon Proves He Was Also Targeted
The New York Times
The mayor has argued that he was indicted because he criticized border policies. He also said that he has rights that migrants do not because “the Constitution is for Americans.”
Eric Adams, the indicted mayor of New York City, on Tuesday presented what might be deemed his closing arguments in the court of public opinion.
Ever since federal prosecutors indicted Mr. Adams in September on corruption charges, the mayor has protested his innocence and suggested, without evidence, that the case is payback for his outspoken resistance to President Biden’s border policies.
On Tuesday, Mr. Adams offered what he seemed to suggest was a piece of evidence. Bending down to pull a copy of the day’s New York Times from behind his lectern, he read from a front-page article related to Mr. Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter.
“President Biden and President-elect Donald Trump now agree on one thing,” he read, eliding the president-elect’s middle initial. “The Biden Justice Department has been politicized.”
“Does that sound familiar?” a smiling Mr. Adams asked the reporters gathered for his weekly “off-topic” question-and-answer session at City Hall.
“I rest my case.”
