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In the mayor’s first comments after a judge ordered corruption charges against him dropped, he urged New Yorkers to read a book by the Trump administration’s F.B.I. director.
- April 2, 2025, 1:37 p.m. ET
Eric Adams, the Democratic mayor of New York City who, after his federal corruption indictment, forged a mutually beneficial relationship with President Donald J. Trump, on Wednesday made clear where his loyalties lie.
Hours after a federal judge granted the Trump administration’s request to dismiss the corruption charges against him, Mr. Adams suggested at a news conference in front of Gracie Mansion that Mr. Trump’s Justice Department was doing God’s will.
“Jesus stepped in and he uses who he uses,” Mr. Adams said at the news conference, seemingly referring to the Justice Department officials who moved to drop his case.
“New Yorkers stop me all the time trying to find the rationale behind this,” Mr. Adams said. “And I found it in this book.”
Then he held up a copy of “Government Gangsters” by the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, a Trump loyalist who has spread misinformation about the agency he now runs, arguing that Americans are the victims of an unbridled cabal of federal officials referred to by Mr. Patel and others as the “deep state.”
Mr. Adams turned Mr. Patel’s book so that the audience could read the title and waved it for emphasis. “I’m going to encourage every New Yorker to read it,” he said. “Read it and understand how we can never allow this to happen to another innocent American.”
