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Eric Adams makes Timothée Chalamet blush and gives a long, long sit-down podcast video interview with opposing guys. I wouldn’t exactly call it coming out in front of things. Adams has already been charged in one of at least five federal investigations. His legal troubles now coincide with his political troubles. His favorable ratings have hit rock bottom and his polls are getting even worse. If Andrew Cuomo enters the New York mayoral race (and there’s plenty of speculation that he will), it looks as if it will end for Adams. It could have ended for Adams regardless.
In any case, the mayor is taking time out of his busy schedule to crash clubs, cut budgets and clear air. And for the cause of purification, what better way than to go to Tucker Carlson’s online show.
Let’s establish this from the beginning. Adams spent much of his political life as a registered Republican. He has also been plagued by allegations of corruption for as long as he has been in politics.
He staked his unlikely political rise to the mayor’s office in 2021 on a tried and true truth: crime panic. Law-breaking was out of control in New York, at least according to the New York Post, and only former police officers could give the poor, turnstile-hoppers and homeless a hard time. Conservative media cheered his position, as did some center-left pundits.
“Tough on crime” has worked for conservative politicians for decades. And it worked for Adams too. But soon, Adams’ staunch infidelity to actual conservative policy and governance drove him out of the public’s good graces.
Looking for another helpless scapegoat to anchor his administration’s chaos and cover up egregious and unnecessary cuts to popular social programs, Adams has trained his anger about immigrants and asylum seekers to It has joined a conservative ensemble that creates more abundant panic around crime specifically. This, Adams believes, was the beginning of the end of his relationship with the Democratic Party, at least according to the version of events he tells Carlson. Not because his efforts were mean-spirited, cynical, unnecessary, or plagued by poor leadership, but because he engaged in such a brazen act that created a huge political liability for Democrats caught up in a big immigration. Because it was. In Adams’ version of the story, it was only then that the politicized Justice Department came knocking and slapped Adams in the cuffs.
“I read the indictment…I thought it was ridiculous,” is how Carlson begins the interview. “You have been charged with accepting an upgraded flight.”
Of course, Adams’ Turkish Airlines account is only the funniest part of the violations he was charged with. One small problem with the interview, branded as “Tucker’s Challenge to Eric Adams,” is that during the 51-minute sit-down, Carlson makes no mention of the Stroudner campaign scheme that Adams was charged with.
That would lead to some inconvenient issues with Adams’ version of this story. Long before he was the only Democrat good enough to call out crime and immigration, he was allegedly funding his campaign through an elaborate series of misreported donations. One of those Stroudners pleaded guilty earlier this month.
Campaign financing violations are serious enough as they are. In Adams’ case, they are particularly aggressive because of his city’s public matching program. The initiative, which matches small contributions of up to $250 from citizens at a rate of up to eight times the original amount, is one of the most deliberate and pro-democracy civil procedures in American politics, and a Money that buys elections that are meaningful bulwarks.
According to the indictment, the Adams campaign conspired to funnel illegal donations from foreign nationals into campaign coffers and encouraged business leaders to circumvent contribution limits by directing employees to donate and then refunding them. I encouraged them to do so. In doing so, Adams also tapped into millions of dollars in public matching funds.
In short, the hard-on-crime mayor got into Gracie Mansion by not only abusing the public’s trust, but also allegedly stealing money from the public purse. Maybe because it’s not a Republican no. Adams argues that New York’s immigration surge is a financial drain on the city’s resources, which is true, and that federal support is insufficient, and that is also likely. What he doesn’t even try to back up is that library hours and the end of his novelty or outdoor dining at 3-K have anything to do with this.
Dayvan is working precisely because Trump intended Day’s sympathizers to be the true goal of Trump’s emails ordering federal employees to NARC. It’s almost like stealing the election.
This brings us to Adams’ third (and likely) final, well-worn Republican plaintiff. The Democrats left him. “People often say, ‘Well, you don’t sound like a Democrat,'” Adams confides to Carlson. “No. Well, the party left me, and it left working class people.”
If you have a politician who speaks like a Republican, governs like a Republican, and was actually a Republican before he became a Democrat, he is seeking a pardon from a Republican president. It may be only. Alternatively, he wants to join Donald Trump’s cabinet or, if the worst happens, become a TV anchor for a new Republican media venture. That’s a better question than “Are the Democrats leaving Eric Adams?” “Why did Democrats get into bed with this guy in the first place?”
Carlson posits the interview as a sign that Trump’s theory of the world has broken through, now undeniable even for Democrats. “New York City Mayor Eric Adams Sounds Like a Trump Voter” is the name of this segment. Instead, what the interviews actually show is evidence that at least two prominent Republicans from New York would say something to avoid their own consequences. corruption.
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