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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
(109,233 posts)(unless I have seriously underestimated the intelligence of NYC voters)...
SheltieLover
(66,750 posts)
of New York recall him, or is that not allowed in NY city.
Blue Owl
(55,954 posts)Phoenix61
(18,283 posts)bites him in the butt.
SheltieLover
(66,750 posts)
SheltieLover
(66,750 posts)Lucky them...
returnee
(522 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
(66,750 posts)Guessing charges didn't cover all his misdeeds. Jmo
returnee
(522 posts)…but this case is gone.
dutch777
(4,297 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
(21,870 posts)marble falls
(64,813 posts)no_hypocrisy
(51,250 posts)(Sliwa is a wellknown "Never Trumper".
BannonsLiver
(19,052 posts)Prairie Gates
(4,907 posts)Cool cool.
choie
(5,359 posts)as soon as he took the Quid Pro Quo down in Palm Beach.