Mayor Eric Adams proclaimed vindication earlier this week when President Trump’s Justice Department moved to dismiss the five-count criminal indictment against him — but if anything, the situation only seemed to heighten calls for the mayor’s ouster from office.
Adams has insisted he will not resign and wants to move forward, though critics have suggested that might be impossible given the revelations in former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Danielle Sassoon in a Feb. 12 letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. In that eight-page letter, Sassoon said that Adams’ attorneys had “repeatedly urged what amounted to a quid pro quo, indicating that Adams would be in a position to assist with the Department’s [immigration] enforcement priorities only if the indictment were dismissed.”
