Eric Adams will miss a major Democratic Party fundraising event just a day after congratulating Donald Trump on his victory.
Adams, the Democratic mayor of New York City who previously criticized the party’s harsh rhetoric against Trump, will not attend ‘Somos,’ a major party fundraiser held in Puerto Rico that he has attended twice in the past.
The mayor congratulated Trump on his victory and said he spoke with the president-elect by phone privately on Wednesday.
‘Yesterday I contacted the president to tell him that there are many problems here in the city that we want to work together with the administration to address. The city must move forward and that is our call to make.”
This led some liberals on social media to wonder if there were more nefarious reasons for the mayor’s call, as he awaits a federal trial on corruption charges next April, while both Adams and Trump have sympathized with each other’s legal difficulties. in the past.
Eric Adams will be absent from a major Democratic Party fundraiser just one day after congratulating Donald Trump on his victory.
Adams, the Democratic mayor of New York City who previously criticized the party’s harsh rhetoric against Trump.
One wrote: “1000000% voted for Trump and now he’s trying to get a pardon for all his madness.”
“Forgiveness comes hot,” added a journalist.
Another account added that Adams took a look at the pardons Trump granted at the end of his last term and is taking advantage of the opportunity.
“Trump paid absolutely no price for the pardons he granted during the last presidency – literally the most corrupt set of pardons possibly in history,” they said.
Adams’ federal corruption trial will begin next April, a judge ruled last week, right in the middle of his promised re-election campaign.
U.S. District Judge Dale E. Ho set the trial date as Adams returned to federal court in Manhattan for a hearing on his bid to remove a key charge in the indictment that threatens his political future.
Ho said he is confident the April 21, 2025 date will hold, “assuming nothing unexpected comes up.”
At the same time, prosecutors said they have not yet been able to decipher a potentially crucial piece of evidence: Adams’ personal cellphone.
This led some liberals on social media to wonder if there were more nefarious reasons for the mayor’s call, as he awaits a federal trial on corruption charges next April.
According to his indictment, Adams changed his password just before turning the phone over to authorities and later claimed he forgot it.
Adams’ lawyers are fighting to dismiss a bribery charge, one of five charges against the Democrat in his first term.
They argued that the charge does not meet the threshold for crime recently lowered by the U.S. Supreme Court and should not apply to Adams because it involves allegations dating back to before he became mayor.
Trump has in the past pardoned Democratic politicians such as former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
However, Adams told reporters Thursday that he simply feels the city could be chaotic after Trump’s victory and that he should be there to be in charge and not fundraising in the Caribbean.
“My flight was booked, my hotel was booked, but I wanted to make sure I was here,” Adams said Thursday.
Adams attended the conference in 2021 and 2022 and he still plans to have several allies on the ground, but now he’s worried about what will happen to the liberal city after Trump’s victory, where the president-elect made big gains among voters.
“There’s a lot to do here and I need to be here for the next few days as we move forward, as we make these transitions,” the mayor said. “There is a lot of work I have to do.”
Trump defended Adams at Al Smith’s benefit dinner, which Harris skipped, by mentioning the mayor’s federal indictment for bribery, fraud and soliciting foreign campaign donations.
SOMOS is described as “a leading force bringing together Latino communities to create positive, transformative impacts that result in improved socioeconomic and civic status for all Latinos throughout New York State and beyond.”
The mayor’s statements in recent weeks have made him become friendlier with the president, with the liberals New York Magazine asking: ‘Why are Trump and Eric Adams playing political games?’
Local outlet Gothamist has asked more directly, saying: ‘Trump presidency offers Mayor Adams a path to clemency, but comes with political risk.’
Adams harshly criticized Kamala Harris for her anti-Trump rhetoric in the days leading up to the election.
The mayor was asked questions about preparing for Trump’s successful rally at Madison Square Garden.
He was asked if he agreed with Kamala Harris’ statement earlier this week that Trump is a “fascist.”
‘Some political leaders in the city have made those comments at me; “My answer is “No,” he said of the remarks, which Joe Biden echoed.
Trump defended Adams at Al Smith’s benefit dinner, which Harris skipped, by mentioning the mayor’s federal indictment for bribery, fraud and soliciting foreign campaign donations.
The mayor was asked questions about preparing for Trump’s successful rally at Madison Square Garden and criticized him as a “fascist.”
As in other public comments, Trump expressed sympathy for New York City Mayor Eric Adams and found similarities with his own prosecution.
‘Mayor Adams: good luck with everything. They came after you,” Trump said while acknowledging notables.
‘I’d like to make fun of Eric a little, but I’m going to be nice. I just want to be nice because I know what it’s like to be persecuted by the Department of Justice for speaking out against open borders. We were persecuted,” Trump said, following Adams’ indictment on corruption charges and growing scandals in his circle.
Then Trump indulged in some fun. “But I have to say that I have never met a vegan person who liked Turkey so much,” referring to accusations of influence peddling involving the country.
Adams appeared to return the favor for the former president on Saturday, blushing at Trump’s comparisons to the likes of Adolf Hitler.
‘I know what Hitler has done and I know what a fascist regime is like. “I think, as I’ve asked over and over again, that the level of conversation, I think we can all lower the temperature,” he added.
He promised tight security for the president’s rally in Manhattan, while defending the event itself.
‘This is America. “This is New York and I think it’s important that we allow people to exercise their right to get their message clear to New Yorkers,” he said.