New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams (D) stated on Sunday he won’t be “warring” with President-elect Trump in his subsequent time period
In an interview on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart,” Adams stated, nonetheless, that there isn’t any connection between his federal indictment and his warming perspective towards the subsequent president.
“Not at all,” Adams stated, when requested whether or not there’s a connection between the 2. “Pay attention, I did nothing flawed. I stated that time and again. I mustn’t have been focused within the first place. I’ve repeatedly said that, and I feel that we’re discovering out an increasing number of a few of the issues which were occurring with DOJ. Like placing dad and mom on FBI watchlists for simply standing up for his or her youngsters.
Adams stated he’ll method this subsequent administration equally to the way in which he approached the Biden administration.
“I need to be clear, I requested… the present president, President Biden, to return to New York Metropolis to assist me in 2022 to take care of gun violence. He arrived within the metropolis, sat down with the police division. I met together with his crew a number of occasions on a number of initiatives,” Adams stated.
“That’s the same way I feel with the incoming president. I am not going to be ‘warring’ with this president. I’m going to be working with this president,” he stated.
Adams pushed again on claims that his warming perspective towards the subsequent president is a mirrored image of his need to acquire a pardon from Trump, saying, “I am not communicating with the President about a pardon.”
On whether or not he or his allies are in search of to get Trump’s decide to be the highest prosecutor within the Southern District of New York to drop the costs in opposition to him, Adams stated, “That is not my responsibility.”
“I have an attorney that is going to look at every avenue to go after this unjust attack on me. They will handle that, and that is why you have legal teams. My job is, as I stated before, my job is to run the city of New York, and that’s what I’m doing. And if you look from the day that we became aware of these allegations, you saw our city continue to move in the right direction, and people are acknowledging how well we’re moving in this city. So let the attorneys handle the legal aspect of it.”
