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Eric Adams eyed by Trump for Saudi Arabia ambassadorship
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s administration is considering New York City Mayor Eric Adams for an ambassadorship to Saudi Arabia, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions.The potential post comes as Adams, mired in the single digits in polls, is facing pressure to drop his bid for a second term in order to consolidate the field and halt the momentum of front runner Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist.
The gaping memory hole quite a few trump supporters stash past stories in out of a desire to put the constant chaos behind them likely have forgotten why Adams is available for an ambassadorship and not preparing his legal defense.
Three more prosecutors on Eric Adams case resign after suspensions, saying they did nothing wrong
Three federal prosecutors have chosen to resign instead of admitting wrongdoing following suspensions over their handling of the now-dropped federal corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, saying it is the Trump administration's handling of the case that was wrong, according to a letter seen by NBC News.Celia Cohen, Andrew Rohrbach and Derek Wikstrom were assistant U.S. attorneys who were suspended after they refused to take part in the Department of Justice's move to drop the prosecution against Adams. A federal judge ordered the case permanently dropped last month so that the charges couldn't be used as "leverage" over Adams, who is cooperating with the Trump administration's immigration priorities.
The corruption case against Adams, who was elected as a Democrat but is now running for re-election as an independent, had sparked a crisis for the Justice Department in the early days of the Trump administration, leading to the biggest mass resignation of DOJ lawyers since the Watergate era.
The former acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Danielle R. Sassoon, resigned over the move to drop the prosecution of Adams, as did several members of the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section.
Three more prosecutors on Eric Adams case resign after suspensions, saying they did nothing wrong
“We will not confess wrongdoing when there was none," they wrote in a joint letter. Ten attorneys have now left the Justice Department over the handling of the case.
Remember? Emil Bove, the corrupted former acting deputy AG, who famously told DoJ lawyers to defy court orders, was behind the scheme to get Adams off the hook. He's an appellate court judge now, which is shocking in and of itself.
Enticing Adams to drop out of the race being an effort on Don's part to control what candidates eventually face off to be the next mayor of NYC. In any event, he should fit seamlessly with trump and the other members of the government with checkered pasts.