by Jeff Childers
The feds have unsealed his indictment, and the controlled demolition of Eric Adams continued over the last two days without a hint of rescue anywhere. NBC ran a snarky story this morning headlined, “Inside Eric Adams’ ‘clumsy’ attempt to hinder foreign bribery probe.”
I’m no Eric Adams fan, not least of all because of his devastating pandemic policies. Nor do I find his pushback against the Biden Migrant Invasion particularly compelling, since New York City was overrun anyway.
But the corporate media pile-on is highly suggestive.
NBC described the indictment’s allegations as best it could, but the narrative is still failing to come up with a hook. What did Adams do? Here’s how NBC framed it:
Discounts on plane tickets and hotel rooms? Like Travelocity or something? Campaign donation violations? About $10K per year over ten years? What? The NBC article mocked Adams’ spelling and compared him to Boss Tweed.
Have a look at some of the other corporate media headlines. The Atlantic, also this morning:
Or this morning’s Washington Post’s non-paywalled op-ed roundup, in which all the writers agreed:
This morning’s Business Insider compared Adams’ indictment to the stomach-turning allegations against Sean “Diddy” Combs:
And from Thursday’s New York Times editorial, on behalf of the entire editorial board:
Adams pleaded ‘not guilty’ in court yesterday. He Diddyn’t do it. In an emphatic response video released last week by his office, Adams forcefully fretted that, despite receiving lots of advice to step down from far-lefties like AOC and Jerry Nadler, he wouldn’t quit.
This all reminded us of New York’s Luv Guv Andrew Cuomo, who also swore he wouldn’t quit right up until the glorious day he did quit.
What is painfully obvious at this point is Eric Adams is out, like Andrew Cuomo was out. Adams can try to hang on, but the deep state’s political machine has ten thousand ways of applying pressure. Like by organizing a media character assassination, which is exactly what we’re watching happen right now.
The betting markets are forecasting a 66% chance Adams is out before the year’s end. I’d give it 99%.
IF all the “lawfare” against Trump had worked so he lost his popularity, or spent his limit and quit, the perps of that lawfare would have celebrated.
So, all that failed in Trump’s cases.
Now, those same perps, joe and kamala and deep state, are using the same tool from their apparently scantily filled tool box to go after dems who say bad things about their policies.
Who knows how this might backfire.
Eric Adams might just out the deep state in many arenas.
He might have something to say about the lawfare against Trump.
He might have been privy to some of the machinations in the backrooms.
Tulsi Gabbard reveals that when she opposed Barack Obama’s request to start bombing more countries in the Middle East, the White House immediately called to threaten her
“I announced that I would be opposing President Obama’s request to go and start another war. And in less than 24 hours, I got a call from the White House. How dare you stand against your president? How dare you stand against, as a freshman Democrat, your president, who is from your home state of Hawaii. They didn’t care about the substance.”
Now you see why the DOJ is going after Eric Adams. Democrats panic every time someone in their “circle” breaks rank.