William Brangham:
Including a P.R. blitz on FOX News.
All the while, the U.S. Department of Justice is in upheaval over the fate of the corruption case it brought against the mayor. Yesterday, six DOJ officials resigned after refusing an order from the department in Washington to dismiss the case.
Acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Danielle Sassoon, a Republican who clerked for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, started the exodus.
Writing to Trump’s new Attorney General Pam Bondi, Sassoon accused Mayor Adams and officials in the DOJ of what amounted to a quid pro quo, that Adams would aid Trump’s immigration enforcement if the DOJ dropped his case. Sassoon excoriated that alleged offer, writing — quote — “It is a breathtaking and dangerous precedent to reward Adams’ opportunistic and shifting commitments on immigration and other policy matters with dismissal of a criminal indictment.”
Yesterday, Mayor Adams met with Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, and sat beside him on FOX News this morning as he denied Sassoon’s claims.
