Mayor Eric Adams politely suggested he would “welcome” Donald Trump’s endorsement as he fights federal bribery charges — while he quietly added a former Trump White House counsel to his defense team.
Hizzoner responded in broad terms Tuesday to a question about the former president’s opposition to the mayor’s stance. Big Apple’s migrant crisis Targeted him.
“I welcome the support of every American,” Adams said. “No matter where they are and who they are. I welcome support from everyone who knows me and also from those who are reading about this now. I welcome the support of every American across this great country.
The comments came as dozens of reporters repeatedly pressed Adams during his first weekly press conference since his historic federal criminal charges.
Trump claimed last week that he predicted Adams would face federal charges when the mayor spoke out on immigrants and against President Joe Biden — an argument that echoes his own claims that he would be the F.B.I. And are victims of legal harassment by the Justice Department.
“And I said, ‘You know what? Within a year he’ll be impeached,'” Trump said during a Trump Tower press conference.
A sweeping federal indictment unsealed against Adams last week accuses him of defrauding taxpayers out of $10 million in matching campaign funds and taking $123,000 in bribes in the form of luxury travel perks from Turkish officials and citizens.
Meyer pleaded not guilty to all five counts of bribery, conspiracy and wire fraud. He is next scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday.
Adams herself has insisted, without presenting evidence, that her stance on the migrant crisis has put her in the political crosshairs of the federal government.
As Mayer begins her legal defense, the relationship between Democrat Adams and Republican Trump, perhaps not so strange after all, grew even stronger behind the scenes.
Court records show that conservative lawyer John Bash — whom Trump picked to serve as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas in 2017 — is now helping Adams deal with her federal charges in Manhattan. Are.
Bash was one of Trump’s legal advisers in the White House during the first year of his presidency and earlier in his career he clerked for conservative Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Antonin Scalia.
Now, he works at the law firm Quinn Emanuel with Adams’ trial attorney Alex Spiro.
As U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas from December 2017 to October 2020, Bash was asked to enforce Trump’s controversial policy of separating families from their children at the border – but Bash failed to enforce the policy. Pushed against the method, The Atlantic reported.
Bash also worked in the Office of the Solicitor General in President Obama’s Justice Department from 2012–17, arguing 10 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Records show Adams has also added another lawyer to her team – William “Bill” Burke – who once represented Trump’s former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.
Burke was representing Bannon in a fraud case in Manhattan federal court, but he was suddenly dropped as a client in November 2020, shortly after Bannon – hurt by Trump’s presidential election loss to Biden – publicly Called FBI Director Chris Wray and Dr. Anthony Fauci. Records show that he will be beheaded.
Burke also served as a top lawyer in George W. Bush’s White House and served on the board of directors at Fox Corporation.
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