When looking for the dismissal of Adams, Trump’s appointed use the legal system for their advantage

In doing so, Mr. Trump’s team precipitated a serious crisis within the besieged unit of the department responsible for investigating and prosecuting political corruption, and the Office of the Prosecutor of the United States of Manhattan. The amazing movement also attracted Mr. Adams, who had begun to cultivate a close relationship with Mr. Trump, closer to the White House, at a time when the president is trying to affirm the dominance over the Democrats of the Great city ​​that could resist its impulse for immigration control.

On Friday, hours before Department officials sign a motion in search of Adams’s dismissal, the mayor appeared in “Fox and Friends” with Trump’s border tsar, Thomas Homan, to say that he was not “on the road” of deportation efforts, unlike many of his fellow Democrats.

“I’m collaborating,” said Adams.

Mr. Trump, speaking from the Oval office, told journalists that he had not asked that the case against Mr. Adams was abandoned and that he knew nothing about it. But after The accusation landed in SeptemberHe criticized him extensively, and in December, after his own election, he reflected on being open to forgiveness for Mr. Adams. Last month, the couple I had a well -publicized meeting at your Golf Club in Palm Beach.

Emil Bove III, Trump’s criminal defense lawyer, became a senior official of the Department of Justice who demanded dismissal, said the decision was based, in part, on restoring the security authorizations of Mr. Adams to be able to Help in the application of the Immigration Law.

It is a “of the important priorities that President Trump has presented for the United States to be safe again,” he wrote in a memorandum, who said that the request had nothing to do with a legal evaluation of the case. Another key reason for the decision, said Bove, was the time of the case. He affirmed that the arrival of the accusation, eight months before the elementary school of the Democratic mayor of June 2025, gave “appearances” of electoral interference.