Charlie Kirk suggests that Eric Adams may have been targeted because “he spoke out a little bit too much against the regime”
Guest Miranda Devine on Adams indictment: “There's a hell of a lot of smoke here” but “It looks as if Eric Adams was deemed a political threat — so the FBI was sicced on him”"
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Citation From the September 26, 2024, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble
CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): Yeah. I guess that was gonna be my question — is that is he actually a criminal, or is it because he was — he spoke out a little bit too much against the regime?
MIRANDA DEVINE (NY POST): Maybe it's both. And look, he did speak out, but that's kind of all he did. What he was really saying was, oh, we need more money from the Biden administration to be able to accommodate all these migrants, and we are a sanctuary city, etc. It's been a total disaster. And I think he's tried to be — he certainly was better than Bill de Blasio, who totally destroyed the city in his two terms. But he has, sort of, managed to get on top of crime and homelessness slightly. But the illegal migrant crisis came on his watch, and he really — while he sort of thundered a little bit, he really didn't do much that was concrete apart from accommodate them and put — brought New York into more and more debt. And he also is a bit of a man about town. You know, he's always at Zero Bond, which is this nightclub downtown scene, comes very late. He's a real real night owl and is seen with the, you know, the rich and famous. And he seems to love that — dresses beautifully. So he's a bit of a playboy guy. And so it's not all that surprising if these charges have any merit, to see that he was, you know, allegedly taking bribes.
KIRK: Yeah. It definitely fits a pattern of someone who enjoys, let's just say, the high life of New York City.
DEVINE: Yes.
KIRK: He's, commonly known, as you say, going to to bars and clubs and and hanging around. And so, just how chaotic has his administration been? Has he run this like a Tammany Hall, well-known, you know, iron fist mayor, or is it kinda more of a guy that enjoys the trappings of being mayor and his office is kind of a mess?
DEVINE: It's really Eric Adams and his entourage. He just has these pals that had sort of look relatively shady and they travel around with him, and they go to these restaurants and, you know, dress slick like he does. And it doesn't seem to be Tammany Hall organized, I'll say that. And you can see how his associates have just been falling like kingpins lately with, you know, the — there've been, I think, six resignations, as I said. The police commissioner, and then even the interim police commissioner just got raided last weekend. So there seems to be a lot of rot in his administration. And certainly, there's ample evidence for the feds to go after whether or not — I mean, they're all innocent until proven guilty but — and whether or not they amount to anything, I don't think that Eric Adams can get away with just saying, oh, I'm being targeted because, you know, I spoke up for the city of New York. You know, there's a hell of a lot of smoke here.
KIRK: Yeah. And I just, what does it say, Miranda, about the lack of integrity for the justice system when we see this indictment and my immediate reaction is what is the motive? Not that Eric Adams is this terrible criminal, but immediately I say, OK. What is really going on here? Miranda, that's an unhealthy place for us to be as a country.
DEVINE: Yeah, it really is. I've — I went through the same thought process myself because my initial reaction was, oh, of course, they've targeted him. You know, because, remember, he was on a plane en route to Washington, DC last year —
KIRK: I remember that.
DEVINE: To confront Joe Biden about the illegal migrants who were being, you know, flown and shipped into New York. And the federal government was refusing to fund any of the costs and was actually threatening to make New York pay for a whole lot of previously — like Medicaid and so on — bills that were footed by the feds. And, anyway, he was on his way there, and he gets told that there's been a raid on his office, that his devices are being taken, and he has to turn around, go back to New York, and he's met there by the feds. So, that seemed like it was a deliberate way of stopping him from coming to Washington and being a trouble to Biden.
And, you know, I — it's almost — if you're — I have no proof of this, but what it seems to me, just the pattern, the way that the FBI has been weaponized by the Biden administration to go after Joe Biden's political enemies, that it looks as if Eric Adams was deemed a political threat — so the FBI was sicced on him. They started searching, and then they found a whole lot of dirt, and the southern district has come in. And prosecutors, probably acting completely honestly and above board as they would with any person who's discovered with all this wrongdoing alleged attached to them, they just are doing their job. So Eric Adams is at fault for having dirt that could be found, but by the same token, there are a lot of Democrats doing a lot of dirty things. You look at Joe Biden, you look at his family, all the influence peddling that they were up to. You look at Nancy Pelosi and others, including Republicans in Washington who are making a fortune out of the stock market. There's a lot of shady dealings going on in politics that would not be tolerated in the private sector.