Sunday, February 16, 2025

Eric Adams Becomes An Independent!

The Devil and Mr. Adams.

New York City mayor Eric Adams is the second African American to become the city's top executive. He may be the second one term Black mayor since David Dinkins.

Kathy Hochul is an embattled New York governor. Her stance on Israel as well as her job approval makes her vulnerable to defeat if a Republican is strong enough to compete against her.

Adams is also a staunch supporter of Israel. Wondering how they got all this dirt on him?

Israel is notorious for espionage on Americans. They have bundlers and extortionists who will blackmail individuals.

Adams is showing out. He is criticizing former president Joe Biden, the U.S. Justice Department and appearing with MAGAland. He is agreeing to mass deportations of immigrants.

So I've come to the conclusion:

Adams appears to have left the Democratic Party. He appeared on Fox with former NYPD cop turned into Trump Administration Border Security Adviser Tom Homan.

Homan, a notorious white nationalist who is anti-immigrant, anti-Black, anti-Muslim and enabler of vigilante justice. He served under the first and second Trump administration.

To be the mayor of a city of 8.3 million is a success. After all, he is retired New York City Police Department captain. He became mayor in 2022 after a push by AIPAC to drive all the progressive Democrats out and Republicans were stuck with the showboating idiot Curtis Silwa.

Adams was born in Brownsville, Brooklyn, on September 1, 1960. He was the fourth of six children. His mother, Dorothy Mae Adams-Streeter (1938–2021), worked double shifts as a housecleaner and had received only a third-grade education. His father, Leroy Adams, was a butcher who struggled with alcoholism. Both of his parents moved to New York City from Alabama in the 1950s. Adams was raised in a rat-infested tenement in Bushwick, Brooklyn. His family was so poor that he often brought a bag of clothes to school with him in case of a sudden eviction from his home. As a young boy, he sometimes earned money as a squeegee boy. By 1968, his mother managed to save up enough money to buy a house and move the family to South Jamaica, Queens.

At age 14, Adams joined a gang, the 7-Crowns, and became known as "a tough little guy". He would hold money for local hustlers. He also ran errands, including purchasing groceries, for a dancer and part-time prostitute named Micki after she became injured. After Micki refused to pay for the groceries he purchased or his work, Adams and his brother stole her TV and a money order. The two were later arrested for criminal trespassing. While in police custody, they were allegedly beaten by NYPD officers until a black cop intervened. Adams was sent to a juvenile detention center for a few days before being sentenced to probation. Adams had post-traumatic stress disorder after the incident and has said that the violent encounter motivated him to enter law enforcement. He was particularly intrigued by the black police officer and by the "swagger" and "respect" that comes with being in law enforcement. Herbert Daughtry of The House of the Lord Pentecostal Church added to his motivation when he suggested that by joining the police force, he could aid in reforming police culture from within. Adams would later attend his church often.

Adams graduated from Bayside High School in Queens in January 1979, but struggled to maintain good grades. He began attending college while working as a mechanic and a mailroom clerk at the Brooklyn District Attorney's office, receiving an associate degree from the New York City College of Technology, a bachelor's degree from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and an MPA from Marist College in 2006. Adams experienced an academic turnaround that he credits to a dyslexia diagnosis in college: "I went from a D student to the dean's list." As a result, he became a strong advocate for early dyslexia screening in public schools.

Adams is vilified by the right and the left. Some of the criticism is racist. But most of it is due to some of his incompetence. Now his latest scandal is making a deal with the devil.

President Donald J. Trump and Republican governors often vilified Adams as a "sanctuary city" mayor due to New York City being the place where America's tired, poor and needy see freedom at the door.

New York City is the symbol of America's freedom. In reality, the United States is located between 60 - 100 in the freedom scale. It is certainly on a decline. We have lost so much freedoms since Ronald Reagan becoming the president. It only gotten worse with George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Donald J. Trump.

New York City is by far a fortress. They have cameras almost everywhere. They are tolling roads, tunnels, bridges, traffic congestion and subways. They are trying to make jumping over turnstiles difficult. Because they charge nearly $5 for subway riders and its not affordable for the poor. Homeless people sleeping in subways or bus stations are removed violently. They have increased patrols to kick out homeless people and had incidents where mentally ill people committing violent acts on riders. Two notable ones were the Daniel Penny strangling of Jordan Neely and the immolation of Debina Kawam by Sebastian Zapeta-Calil.

The NYPD have gotten training from three Israeli government. That's why you see plain clothes officers, brutal takedowns, property damage, unlawful entry and shooting suspects even if they're not threatening. 

The NYPD has a Tel Aviv branch where they obtain intelligence. They have surveillance on Black activists, Muslims and immigrant civil rights lawyers.

Adams has even brought back the stop and frisk policies that were encouraged by past mayors Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg and Ed Koch.

Texas and Florida governors Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis were intentionally sending migrants to New York City riling up Adams. They did it to criticize former president Joe Biden on immigration. It was a horrific white supremacist action by two ignorant governors.

Florida does not even have a land border with Mexico. But since Cubans and Haitians seek refuge in the United States, DeSantis devoted his state's resources to sending them to New York.

Adams who is worth a net estimate of $4 million is under federal indictment by the Southern District of New York. 

In September 2024, a series of investigations into Adams' administration emerged. Adams was indicted on federal charges of bribery, fraud, and soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations. He was the first mayor in New York City history to be charged with federal crimes while in office. Adams pleaded not guilty to the charges. He alleged that the charges were retaliation for opposing the Biden administration's handling of the migrant crisis. In February 2025, the Department of Justice in the second Trump administration instructed federal prosecutors to drop charges against Adams.

On November 12, 2023, The New York Times reported that Adams' investigation by the FBI was related in part to an alleged influence by the Turkish government to have its consulate in a Manhattan building approved by New York City authorities without a fire inspection. On September 25, 2024, Adams was indicted in a sealed case. Dozens of politicians called on Adams to resign, including Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of the Bronx.

In September 2024, a series of investigations into Adams's administration emerged. 

On September 25, Adams was indicted on federal charges of bribery, fraud, and soliciting foreign campaign donations. On September 26, the case was unsealed, revealing the five charges: bribery, conspiracy, fraud, and two counts of soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations. The allegations for which Adams was indicted begin in 2014, when he was still Brooklyn Borough President. Adams is accused of receiving luxury travel and other benefits from people from Turkey, namely a Turkish government official and Turkish businessmen. This included Adams pressuring the New York City Fire Department to open a Turkish consular building without a fire inspection. Allegedly, in order to cover up his misconduct, Adams created and instructed others to make false paper trails indicating he actually paid for these trips in full. He was arraigned in federal court on September 27, entering a plea of not guilty. The same day, U.S. Representative Jerry Nadler, the dean of the New York Democratic House delegation, called for Adams to resign. As of September 2024, 15 Democratic state and local leaders have also called for his resignation.

In response, Adams has said that the charges are "entirely false, based on lies," called for an immediate trial, and has vowed to fight the charges. Adams claims the charges are retaliation for opposing the Biden administration's handling of the migrant crisis. On September 30, Adams sought dismissal of the bribery charge against him for being "extraordinarily vague" and is a charge that was brought by "zealous prosecutors."

On February 10, 2025, the Department of Justice under Trump instructed federal prosecutors to drop charges against Adams, citing concerns that the case had been affected by publicity and was interfering with his ability to govern. The memo directing this move, written by acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, stated that the prosecution had limited Adams’ capacity to focus on issues such as immigration and crime. The Justice Department’s decision did not assess the strength of the evidence or legal arguments in the case. The memo was issued months before the city's Democratic primary, where Adams is seeking reelection.

The charges were to be dropped "as soon as is practicable" pending a further review of Adams’ case following the general election in November 2025. Danielle Sassoon, the U.S. Attorney in charge of the case, refused to dismiss the charges, telling Attorney General Pam Bondi that "I cannot agree to seek a dismissal driven by improper considerations". Sassoon later resigned, accusing Bove and the Trump administration of making an illicit deal with Adams to dismiss the charges. The case was then assigned to the Department of Justice's Public Integrity Section, following which John Keller, the section's acting head, and Kevin Driscoll, the acting head of the Department of Justice's Criminal Division, both resigned. The Public Integrity prosecutors reportedly considered whether they'd resign en masse or end up being fired. One of them, Ed Sullivan, stepped forward, with sources saying that he did this to protect the other prosecutors, and the motion was filed on February 14. In total, at least seven career Justice Department prosecutors resigned after it became clear they were next in line to handle the request to dismiss the case, and Sassoon also warned that "the presiding judge, U.S. District Judge Dale Ho, would likely 'conduct a searching inquiry in this case.'" Hagan Scotten, the Assistant U.S. Attorney who had been prosecuting the case, also resigned in a letter that said any attorney who would file the dismissal would be a "fool" or a "coward." Emil Bove gathered the remaining members of the public integrity unit, ordering them to find a prosecutor who would file a motion to dismiss the charges.

The efforts by the new Trump administration to dismiss the case came in the same week as the administration was negotiating with the mayor over immigration enforcement initiatives and "President Trump‘s border czar" Tom Homan made reference to an "agreement." Earlier, Adams had agreed with Homan to give access to the city's Rikers Island jail for ICE without -- via a "loophole ... [Adams] appears to have found" -- violating the city’s sanctuary laws, and joined Homan in a joint interview conducted by Dr. Phil McGraw, among one or more other joint interviews.

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