Mayor Adams’s Best Defense

Within days of Hizzoner turning against President Biden’s immigration policies, the FBI raids the homes of one of his top fundraisers and his international affairs aide.

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President Biden and Mayor Adams at the White House, July 2021. Via Wikimedia Commons

A good offense is the best defense, they say — which would suggest that if Mayor Adams believes his federal prosecution for treating with Turkey is political payback for his criticism of President Biden’s migrant policies, he ought to make that case to the public. “I always knew that if I stood my ground for New Yorkers that I would be a target,” Mr. Adams avers. So is the prosecution of Mayor Adams at bottom political? 

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