DOJ Orders Prosecutors To Drop Charges Against Mayor Eric Adams Because It’s Interfering With Trump’s Agenda - Page 2
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At this point, it’s clear the Trump administration doesn’t even feel the need to hide its corruption, abuse of power, or contempt for the rule of law when it’s applied to them, not everyone else (especially undocumented migrants). Trump is a 34-time felon who, along with the entire MAGA-fied Republican party, claimed the justice system was persecuting him because he was prosecuted for and convicted of the crimes he committed. He also either pardoned or commuted the sentences of more than 1,500 convicts who participated in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot that he himself inspired. These people don’t care about the law or the Constitution if those things stand in the way of executing the MAGA agenda. Sad! See how social media is reacting to the dropped charges below.The order was sent in a letter from the department’s acting No. 2 official, Emil Bove III, to Manhattan prosecutors who brought the charges against the mayor last year.
Mr. Bove justified the decision to ask for the dismissal by saying that the mayor’s indictment had limited Mr. Adams’s ability to cooperate in President Trump’s immigration crackdown. He also suggested that the indictment, which was handed up in September, threatened to interfere with the June 2025 mayoral primary, despite the nine-month interval between the two events.
Mr. Bove explicitly said that the Justice Department had made its decision without assessing the strength of the evidence against Mr. Adams or the legal theories undergirding the case. Instead, his letter criticized the U.S. attorney who brought it and former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. He offered expressly political arguments for dropping the charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, soliciting illegal foreign campaign contributions from foreign nationals and bribery, asserting the urgency of Mr. Trump’s immigration objectives.
