Trump DOJ Is Explicitly Political in Dropping Case Against New York City Mayor Adams

Politicized law enforcement is always wrong. And it is not more attractive when it insulates a politician from what appears to be righteous law enforcement than when it targets a politician with what appears to be discriminatory law enforcement. That is the lesson of the Trump Justice Department’s dropping of the corruption case against New York City’s Democratic mayor, Eric Adams.

I was not blown away by the case against Mayor Adams brought by the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY). But that’s mainly because Adams appears to be a bumbling small-timer — an often incoherent loose cannon previously notorious for praising Louis Farrakhan and chumming around with Al Sharpton. The 57-page, five-count indictment, which exposes Adams to a statutory maximum 45 years’ of imprisonment, is a story of penny-ante bribery and illegal foreign campaign contributions — stemming mostly from Adams’s tenure as Brooklyn borough president, which marked the start of his courtship with the abominable Erdoğan regime in Turkey.

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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Politicized law enforcement is always wrong. And it is not more attractive when it insulates a politician from what appears to be righteous law enforcement than when it targets a politician with what appears to be discriminatory law enforcement. That is the lesson of the Trump Justice Department’s dropping of the corruption case against New York City’s Democratic mayor, Eric Adams.

I was not blown away by the case against Mayor Adams brought by the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY). But that’s mainly because Adams appears to be a bumbling small-timer — an often incoherent loose cannon previously notorious for praising Louis Farrakhan and chumming around with Al Sharpton. The 57-page, five-count indictment, which exposes Adams to a statutory maximum 45 years’ of imprisonment, is a story of penny-ante bribery and illegal foreign campaign contributions — stemming mostly from Adams’s tenure as Brooklyn borough president, which marked the start of his courtship with the abominable Erdoğan regime in Turkey.

About the Author

Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.