The Department of Justice has requested that a federal district court drop its corruption charges with prejudice against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was recently confirmed by the Senate, said on Friday that the September corruption charges against Adams were going to be dismissed later in the day.
In the official request, DOJ lawyers wrote, "The United States respectfully submits this motion seeking dismissal without prejudice of the charges in this case, with leave of the Court."
This would effectively end the corruption case against Adams which was pushed aggressively by the previous Biden administration after Adams began complaining about the impacts of Biden's open border policies on New York City.
Adams quickly claimed that the corruption investigation was a political hitjob designed to punish him for speaking out against Biden and the Trump administration seems to agree.
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove explained that the Trump administration has an interest in shutting down the political indictment against Adams in order to accomplish greater objectives as well as create a useful ally.
Ending the questionable investigation into Adams gives the Trump administration a friend in an otherwise extremely unfriendly Democrat state.
Bove explained on Friday "that continuing these proceedings would interfere with the defendant’s ability to govern in New York City, which poses unacceptable threats to public safety, national security, and related federal immigration initiatives and policies."
Bove also noted that the indictment against Adams "improperly interfered” with his reelection campaign as well as the aforementioned issues with tackling “illegal immigration and violent crime."
Adams is essentially going to ensure that the Trump administration's agenda will not be opposed in New York City and in return the DOJ is shutting the indictment down.
This has spawned a flurry of outraged responses from Democrats who want to see Trump's immigration agenda opposed. There has also been a flurry of resignations at the District Court for the Southern District of New York.
President Trump himself likely won't shed tears over the resignations at the SDNY as New York's court system has already proven its corruption in the indictments that Trump himself had to defeat prior to the 2024 presidential election.
So the news that interim attorney Danielle Sassoon and many others had resigned in protest to the DOJ's decision to request charges against Adams be dismissed is another win for Trump.
Democrats who weaponized the DOJ for years are now complaining that the Trump administration is killing a blatantly political indictment that was designed to silence a critic of the Biden administration
This is a new era for America under Trump and the rules of the game have changed after four years of chaos and kangaroo courts.
