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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMayor of NYC goes MAGA?
Mayor Adams says ‘deep state’ is real, calls on ‘everybody’ to read Kash Patel’s bookhttps://nypost.com/2025/04/04/us-news/mayor-adams-admits-the-deep-state-is-real-credits-kash-patel/
Mayor Eric Adams copped to believing the “deep state” is real this week — echoing President Trump and the MAGA movement.
“I don’t want to sound conspiracy theory, but there’s a permanent government,” Adams told comedian Andrew Schulz on the “Flagrant Podcast” Wednesday.
“There are people that see presidents and mayors come and go. Their attitudes will wait you out.”
The admittedly tin foil hat stance from Adams came on the same day a judge dismissed the federal corruption case that has dogged him since September.
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hlthe2b
(109,057 posts)(unless I have seriously underestimated the intelligence of NYC voters)...
SheltieLover
(66,193 posts)
of New York recall him, or is that not allowed in NY city.
Blue Owl
(55,855 posts)Phoenix61
(18,259 posts)bites him in the butt.
SheltieLover
(66,193 posts)
SheltieLover
(66,193 posts)Lucky them...
returnee
(496 posts)…to judge Ho’s shame. The case was solid enough for people to resign over being asked to dismiss it. TSF has no hold over him now. Whatever he is doing he’s doing voluntarily. Adams is a consummate opportunist, no principles other than what serves him personally. And Cuomo ain’t much better. That we may end up with one of these two assholes indicates how vulnerable NYC is to the vagaries of sociopaths.
SheltieLover
(66,193 posts)Guessing charges didn't cover all his misdeeds. Jmo
returnee
(496 posts)…but this case is gone.
dutch777
(4,209 posts)If you are any kind of decent leader you can inspire others and make changes, if you are a hack or worse, yes, there will be internal resistance in any system-- government, institutions or business.
Deuxcents
(21,710 posts)marble falls
(64,695 posts)no_hypocrisy
(51,083 posts)(Sliwa is a wellknown "Never Trumper".
BannonsLiver
(19,034 posts)Prairie Gates
(4,776 posts)Cool cool.
choie
(5,325 posts)as soon as he took the Quid Pro Quo down in Palm Beach.