Eric Adams faces pressure to resign as New York Democrats plot next moves
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams, the rank-and-file transit cop who rose to the city’s most powerful office, is no longer the master of his political destiny.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, the rank-and-file transit cop who rose to the city’s most powerful office, is no longer the master of his political destiny. Indicted on federal corruption charges unsealed Thursday, Adams’ fate will be decided in the coming days and weeks, as the defiant mayor dials up his attacks on prosecutors who say he brazenly stole from the city he promised to secure. Adams maintains his innocence and says he is focused on being mayor. Whether he remains in that job, however, is an open question. Interviews with nearly a dozen Democratic operatives and donors, lobbyists and city officials yielded a picture of a mayor on the brink and a city government near paralyzed by weeks of upheaval. Rumors surrounding the mayor’s assorted legal troubles, including four ongoing federal investigations, dominated New York political chatter over the past few weeks, with leading operatives openly speculating about when – not if – the charges would be brought and how Adams would respond. “I always knew that if I stood my ground for New Yorkers that I would be a target – and a target I became,” the mayor said Wednesday night after The New York Times first reported on the indictment. Without directly addressing Adams’ comments, Damian Williams, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, insisted on Thursday morning after he unsealed the indictment that the charges were damning and unassailable.
Filings from special counsel Jack Smith laying out never-before-seen evidence in the election subversion case against Donald Trump – including interview transcripts and notes from an investigation that counted among its witnesses former Vice President Mike Pence, Ivanka Trump and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows – are now in the hands of a federal court.
The House task force charged with investigating the near assassination of Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, will hold its first hearing Thursday on Capitol Hill, probing local law enforcement and a medical examiner over what happened on July 13, when the former president was shot and one rallygoer was killed.