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President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he’d consider pardoning embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Trump was blunt when asked by a reporter during a press conference at his
Mar-a-Lago resort if he’d come to Adams’ rescue with a presidential pardon. “I would,” he said. “I think that he was treated pretty unfairly.” The declaration came as Adams battles for his
political life and potential freedom against a historic bribery and corruption federal indictment, charges which he denies. Many in Adams’ camp have seen another Trump presidency as a
potential boon for his defense, either through a pardon or a sympathetic appointee to the Manhattan US Attorney’s Office, which is leading the case against the mayor. EXPLORE MORE Trump has
repeatedly expressed his belief that Adams is being railroaded by overzealous federal prosecutors — and he repeated that Monday. He questioned the accusations that Adams took bribes from
Turkish officials and nationals in the form of luxury flight upgrades. “Now, I haven’t seen the gravity of it all, but it seems like being upgraded on an airplane many years ago,” he said.
“I think everybody here has been upgraded. “I’d have to see it because I don’t know the facts.”
