New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is considering forcibly removing Mayor Eric Adams from office after the Department of Justice dropped corruption charges against him.
There are growing calls for Hochul to remove Adams from office after multiple attorneys in the DOJ resigned when the Trump administration forced them to drop all charges.
Gov. Hochul said on Thursday she is not ruling out removing Adams from office.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced criminal charges against Hochul and NY AG Letitia James on Wednesday, Feb. 12. They are being charged with prioritizing illegal immigrants over American citizens.
Former FOX TV host Bill O’Reilly speculated that Mayor Adams “knows where the bodies are buried” with AG Letitia James and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.
O’Reilly said the DOJ (with Adams’s help) will prosecute James and Bragg.
“I’m going to predict it here,” O’Reilly said, “[Trump] will bring down Letitia James and Alvin Bragg.”
In February 2022, Bragg’s office launched a criminal investigation into Trump and his businesses in Manhattan. In Nov. 2022, Bragg’s office announced an investigation into Trump’s “hush-money payment to a porn star who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump”.
Trump was indicted on March 30, 2023 and arraigned on April 4, 2023. It was the first time a former president was indicted on criminal charges.
Trump was convicted of all counts on May 30, 2024.
After Trump was sworn in as President on Jan. 20, he fired hundreds of federal employees – including FBI agents – who participated in investigations against him.
Gov. Hochul told MSNBC that she’s consulting with officials about the mayor’s future.
“The allegations are extremely concerning and serious, but I cannot as the governor of this state have a knee-jerk, politically motivated reaction like a lot of other people are saying right now,” Hochul told host Rachel Maddow.
