Carrie Johnson:
It’s significant because the allegation is that the Justice Department may have entered into a deal with Mayor Eric Adams that Adams would help Trump with immigration priorities in exchange for dropping the criminal charges, the criminal corruption case, against Eric Adams.
Now, Bove denied that was the case, but he refused to answer questions about his conversations with people in the White House, including Stephen Miller, for whom immigration is really the highest priority. And it gives rise to questions about why he refused to answer that question and whether there were potentially improper conversations around that deal.
Remember, many prosecutors quit over the move to drop the case against Eric Adams and a judge ultimately found that it smacked of a bargain.
