Watch: NYC Mayor Eric Adams grilled on MSNBC about 'cozying up' to Trump
Indicted New York City Mayor Eric Adams was grilled by MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire on Thursday about his outreach to President-elect Donald Trump ever since his election last month.
During an interview on "Morning Joe," Lemire noted that Adams had echoed Trump's arguments about being "persecuted" by the Department of Justice after he was hit with wire fraud, bribery and other charges earlier this year after being caught up in a federal corruption probe.
"Some of your fellow Democrats in New York have wondered if you're cozying up to the president-elect, for either a pardon or for an administration job," he said. "Do you have any response to their comments?"
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Adams responded without directly referencing his meetings with Trump.
"Well, I think if you do an analysis of my life and what I've stood for, as a police officer, as a state senator... you see the consistency," said Adams. "Public safety is a prerequisite to prosperity of the city, of the country. I believe in working-class people, I have not changed no matter whom the president may have been at the time. What I'm going through right now, no American should go through that."
In all, Adams has been charged with charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, federal program bribery, and to receive campaign contributions by foreign nationals; wire fraud; solicitation of a contribution by a foreign national; solicitation of a contribution by a foreign national; and bribery.
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