Trump Says He’d Consider Pardoning NYC Mayor Eric Adams
(Bloomberg) -- President-elect Donald Trump said he’d consider pardoning New York Mayor Eric Adams after he was indicted this fall on bribery and fraud charges.
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“I would certainly look at it,” he said Monday at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida estate. “I’d have to see it, because I don’t know the facts.”
Adams was indicted in September and accused of accepting illegal campaign contributions to his 2021 mayoral campaign from foreign nationals. Prosecutors have detailed improper relationships that Adams allegedly had with a Turkish diplomat, including accepting free flight upgrades.
Trump said Adams was “treated pretty unfairly,” chalking up some of the case to “being upgraded in an airplane many years ago.” He added that Adams was a critic of migration levels and suggested the indictment was related to him taking that position publicly.
“He made some pretty strong statements, like, ‘This is not sustainable,’” Trump said. “I said, ‘You know what? He’ll be indicted soon.’ And I said it not as a prediction, a little bit lightheartedly, but I said it. I said he’s going to be indicted, and a few months later he got indicted.”
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