Dear New Yorkers,
Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday said a demand by the U.S. Department of Justice to make Manhattan federal prosecutors drop corruption charges against him proves his innocence — insisting that he “never broke the law” and vowing to regain the trust of the city.
In a six-minute livestreamed statement (that didn’t allow for questions afterward), Adams didn’t mention President Donald Trump, despite a memo from the DOJ’s second-in-command ordering federal prosecutors to drop his five-count indictment…