President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he’d consider pardoning embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
Trump was blunt when asked by a reporter during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort if he’d come to Adams’ rescue with a presidential pardon.
“I would,” he said. “I think that he was treated pretty unfairly.”
The declaration came as Adams battles for his political life and potential freedom against a historic bribery and corruption federal indictment, which he denies.
Many in Adams’ camp have seen another Trump presidency as a potential boon for his defense, either through a pardon or a sympathetic appointee to the Manhattan US Attorney’s Office, which is leading the case against the mayor.
Trump has repeatedly expressed his belief that Adams is being railroaded by overzealous federal prosecutors – and he repeated it Monday.
He questioned the accusations that Adams took bribes from Turkish officials and nationals in the form of luxury flight upgrades.
“Now, I haven’t seen the gravity of it all, but it seems like being upgraded on an airplane many years ago,” he said. “I think everybody here has been upgraded.
“I’d have to see it because I don’t know the facts.”
