Eric Adams on His Attempt to Fix New York and How Democrats Weaponized the Law to Stop Him
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Mr. Mayor, thank you very much for having us to Gracie Mansion.
Thank you. Thank you. Historical place, you know. And you live here. Yes. Upstairs is a residency. But, you know, I was get back to Brooklyn from time to time. My place of love.
I kind of like this. I read through the indictment today on the way here. I read the day it came out. I have no reason to suck up to you. I thought it was ridiculous. It was flimsier even than I remember. You were indicted for accepting upgraded flights and for allowing the Turkish president to occupy his own building in Manhattan. The whole thing's crazy, actually, if you read it. What was your reaction when you found out you were being indicted?
Well, I know how I live my life. You know, a former police officer, the one rule my staff will always tell you, he says all the time, follow the rules, follow the law, follow the law. And so when I heard of this investigation, I was like, what could I have done that would cause what I was seeing? And then when I read it, I was like, where are the bags of cash? Well, that's what I thought. Where were these, you know, the secret stash somewhere? And what many people did not read, they saw the presentation that was given and it was, you walk away with saying, oh my God, what did this guy do? But when you read it and you saw that I didn't open the consulate, I asked the FDNY, can you look into the inspection to get the inspection done?
And so it's- So just to be clear for people who haven't read the indictment, you are accused of being bribed by the Turkish government to allow the Turkish president or prime minister, pardon my not remembering,
To allow the council general. The council general, my apologies. To get an inspection to determine if they could pass a fire inspection. And if they couldn't do it, you see in the indictment, I clearly stated to manage the expectation if it couldn't be done.
So you get a call from Turkish government and they say Turkish officials want to occupy their own consulate, which is being built in New York, hasn't received a fire inspection yet. You call FDNY and say, hey, can you, you know, the government wants to occupy their own building. I'm the mayor. It's another country. They want to occupy their own building. Can you go ahead and do the fire inspection? There's no evidence that the building was a fire trap or out of compliance with any fire regulation. Is this correct? Exactly. Right. So it's a weird thing to be indicted for.
No, and not only weird to be indicted for, when you look at being a former law enforcement person, pushing public safety, living your life a certain way, it was painful. It was extremely painful to go through this, you know, millions of dollars in legal bills and just not being able to respond. So the hardest part about this for me, anyone that's followed my career, they know I'm a straight, fighter, you know, and this is the first time in my life that you have to sit here and be punched on and you have to allow your attorney to fight the fight. I know how to fight and I like to fight to defend myself and not being able to do that is hard as hell.
Well, the weird thing is, from the Washington perspective, where I'm from, is that you're under indictment for allowing foreign governments, Turkey, not North Korea, by the way, or Iran, but like a member of NATO, allowing them to upgrade your flights.
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