New York’s embattled mayor won’t answer questions about his relationship with Trump — who seems to love him
At his regular weekly press conference, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who is currently under federal indictment on corruption charges, refused to answer a question about how recently he had spoken to Donald Trump, or to others on the former president’s team. This was striking in the wake of Trump’s warm words for the city’s mayor during Trump’s inflammatory Madison Square Garden rally this past Sunday.
“Give me another question, please”, Adams snapped at WABC-TV reporter N.J. Burkett. “You lost your opportunity.”
Burkett’s first question was an attempt to circle back to comments Adams had made a week earlier, when Burkett suggested that Adams had “in essence, defended Trump when it came to the issue of whether he’s a fascist or not.”
Adams appeared to avoid the question of passing judgment on Trump after the instantly notorious Madison Square Garden rally, at which one featured speaker described Puerto Rico — a U.S. territory and the ancestral home of more than a million New Yorkers — as “a floating island of garbage,” while Trump falsely claimed that the the Biden administration and FEMA “haven’t even responded in North Carolina” in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
“They spent their money on bringing in illegal migrants so they didn’t have money for Georgia and North Carolina and Alabama and Tennessee and Florida and South Carolina,” Trump told the MSG crowd. “They spent all of their money on bringing in illegal immigrants and flying them in by beautiful jet planes. . They would fly them into the middle of our country, our beautiful, beautiful country.”
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani also spoke at the rally, suggesting that most or all Palestinians were terrorists who “are taught to kill us at two years old.
