When Mayor Eric Adams first took office, I described him as a corrupt clown and the best of a very bad lot of candidates and predicted he would end up indicted. I’m not surprised that he was indicted, but the issue wasn’t corruption. Adams is no more corrupt than the average New York City, Chicago, Detroit, LA, SF, or big city Dem pol, which is to say his kind of corruption is business as usual and there was something else that triggered this.

Adams used to be a Biden proxy. The Biden admin liked the idea of a black big city mayor until Adams broke with it over the open borders illegal alien invasion. New York City was and is overwhelmed by the invaders. Facing staggering expenses and chaos, Adams initially followed the party line and blamed Texas and Florida for busing migrants, but then broke with the White House and blamed the Biden administration.

At that point the relationship fell apart. And this outcome became inevitable.

Is there any evidence of that?

Let’s look at the timeline.

In April/May 2023, Mayor Adams began making pointed comments about the border crisis being a federal problem.

By August 2023, the Biden administration had begun taking shots at Adams.

In November 2023, the federal investigation of Adams went public.

Coincidence? Maybe. But I don’t believe in coincidences in corrupt systems. Like the election timing of this particular takedown which opens the door for a radical leftist takeover of the mayor’s office which will be an even worse version of Bill De Blasio.

The investigation predated some of the raids, but would the FBI have gone as hard after Adams if he hadn’t become a problem for the White House?

Adams is corrupt but his real crime was telling the truth about the open border crisis.