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Mayor Adams agrees to not publicly criticize Trump as Day One govt orders rock NYC, nation
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Mayor Adams agrees to not publicly criticize Trump as Day One govt orders rock NYC, nation

Last updated: January 22, 2025 12:11 am
Editorial Board Published January 22, 2025
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Amid sharp debate over President Trump’s govt orders on immigration, gender identification and different points, Mayor Adams revealed Tuesday he lately made a deal to not publicly criticize Trump after being assured he’ll have a direct line to him.

Adams mentioned they made that settlement whereas he met privately with Trump at his namesake golf membership in Florida this previous Friday.

The deal covers controversial subjects equivalent to Trump’s govt order searching for to finish birthright citizenship, his pardon of convicted Jan. 6 rioters and different actions that might have critical impacts on New York Metropolis.

“We’re not going to agree on everything, but those areas that we disagree, I’m going to personally share with [Trump], and he has given me an opportunity to communicate with him directly on issues we disagree, and I respect that,” Adams mentioned throughout his weekly press convention at Metropolis Corridor earlier than including:

“I don’t want to be part of what feeds the anxiety of going back and forth.”

The announcement drew a swift rebuke. Metropolis Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, a Queens Democrat who has lately stepped up her criticism of the mayor, was perplexed by his refusal to slam Trump’s current actions.

“This shouldn’t be that hard: The EO to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional. Rioters who attacked police and broke into the capitol should be held accountable. Withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement will set environmental progress back for generations,” the speaker wrote on X.

The mayor has come beneath hearth for the final a number of months from a variety of Democrats who say he’s being overly cozy with Trump and be aware he’s going through federal corruption fees that the Republican president is brazenly contemplating pardoning him for.

Mayor Adams arrives at President Trump’s inauguration on the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2025. (Photograph by Al Drago-Pool/Getty Pictures)

Adams revealed the settlement with Trump after being requested whether or not he opposes the president’s Day One strikes to tug the nation out of the Paris Local weather Accords, concern a legally doubtful govt order that seeks to terminate birthright citizenship within the U.S. and provide clemency for some 1,500 prison defendants accused of collaborating within the lethal Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol.

These strikes had been a part of a raft of controversial govt actions Trump took inside hours of being sworn in Monday, a number of of which have already drawn authorized challenges, together with the bid to finish birthright citizenship, which New York Legal professional Common Letitia James filed a lawsuit over Tuesday searching for to invalidate it.

Trump’s Jan. 6 clemency actions included pardoning and commuting prolonged jail sentences of supporters who had been convicted of seditious conspiracy and assaulting cops throughout the Capitol Hill chaos in 2021.

President Donald Trump speaks during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool Photo via AP)

Chip Somodevilla/Pool Photograph through AP

President Trump speaks throughout his inauguration. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool Photograph through AP)

The Jan. 6 riot — undertaken by Trump supporters who sought to dam the certification of President Biden’s 2020 election after Trump falsely claimed his victory was fraudulent — resulted within the dying of Brian Sicknick, a Capitol Police officer assaulted within the melee. 4 different officers who responded to the Capitol assault dedicated suicide in its aftermath.

Adams, a former NYPD captain who was elected in 2021 on a pro-police platform, wouldn’t say Tuesday whether or not he thought it was applicable for Trump to grant clemency to people convicted of assaulting legislation enforcement officers.

In truth, Adams recommended there might be purpose to take a second have a look at some such Jan. 6 convictions, pointing to his personal declare, which he has made with out proof, that federal prosecutors in Manhattan had been politically motivated in bringing corruption fees in opposition to him.

“You look at how this system has been, you have to really raise questions — I raised it, President Trump raised it, President Biden raised it, that’s something we should all reflect on,” he mentioned.

Mayor Eric Adams speaks to the press at City Hall Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025 in the Manhattan, New York. (Barry Williams / New York Daily News)Mayor Adams speaks at Metropolis Corridor on Jan. 21, 2025. (Barry Williams / New York Day by day Information)

Adams’ unwillingness to sentence Trump contrasts together with his repeated criticism of President Biden’s dealing with of the nationwide migrant disaster. Adams mentioned he additionally gave Biden the advantage of the doubt by not criticizing him “out the gate.”

“The same thing I did for President Biden, I am doing for this president,” he mentioned.

Mayor Eric Adams speaks to the press at City Hall Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025 in the Manhattan, New York. (Barry Williams / New York Daily News)Mayor Adams speaks at Metropolis Corridor, Jan. 21, 2025. (Barry Williams / New York Day by day Information)

Adams’ revelation that he has a direct line of communication with Trump is the newest wrinkle in what many see as a very chummy relationship with the president for the Democratic mayor. It has prompted hypothesis Adams is angling for a pardon from Trump.

Adams most lately got here beneath hearth over his determination to go to Washington, D.C early Monday morning to attend the inauguration after getting a last-minute invite.

With a view to make the inauguration, Adams cancelled appearances at numerous Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations in New York, a transfer that drew pushback from numerous native Black leaders.

Mayor of New York City Eric Adams departs Emancipation Hall during the Inauguration of Donald J. Trump on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Angelina Katsanis - Pool/Getty Images)Mayor Adams departs the Capitol after the inauguration of President Trump on January 20, 2025. (Photograph by Angelina Katsanis – Pool/Getty Pictures)

Requested at Tuesday’s press convention in regards to the criticism, Adams claimed his attendance at Trump’s inauguration is in step with Dr. King’s “dream.”

“My life is the life that Dr. King was talking about when he says he had a dream,” he mentioned. “I’m living that dream, and my desire to be in Washington to make sure I continue to move forward on that dream.”

Initially Printed: January 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM EST

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