Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday defended a top NYPD official for participating in a televised interview, in uniform, with the far right-wing outlet Newsmax during former President Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally Sunday. Hizzoner suggested the site is no different from any other news source.
The mayor made the remarks during his weekly off-topic press conference at City Hall on Oct. 29 after a reporter asked him why NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell appeared on Newsmax in uniform during Trump’s Oct. 27 MSG rally. Adams said he saw nothing wrong with Chell’s appearance, which some observers and elected officials criticized as crossing political lines.
