The Tsar of the Border of the White House, Tom Homan, denied on Sunday the accusations of a quid pro quo between the Trump administration and the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, calling for the notion that the Department of Justice moved to Dismiss the criminal charges against Adams in exchange for the cooperation of the Mayor of Immigration “ridiculous” ridiculous “.”
The presenter of CNN, Dana Bash, asked Homan: “It seems that the Department of Justice dropped the case against Adams and, in return, let you enter Rikers,” referring to the New York City prison. “That’s what happened?”
“No, I think it’s ridiculous,” Homan replied, saying that the two have been discussing access to Rikers Island prison for months.
During a closed door meeting with Homan on Thursday, Adams agreed to allow us immigration and customs control agents (ICE) to operate in Rikers.
Then, the two men sat for an interview with “Fox & Friends” on Friday, during which Homin said: “I came to New York City and I would not leave with nothing”, and added that I would be in the case of Adams and “be in his office, in his butt”, if the mayor did not continue with his commitment.
Homan, who served as an interim director of ICE in the first administration of President Donald Trump, said Sunday that the conversation between him and Adams, a former police captain of New York City, was “Cop for COP”.
“I think people are doing a lot about anything,” said Homan. “I mean, again, I went there as director of ICE, now the border tsar, and we collaborate on how to move the illegal crime of aliens, the decrease in New York City and we found the worst of the worst. And that we talk about. He was a police officer, not in the border tsar for the mayor, the police to the police. “
The Department of Justice moved to dismiss corruption charges against Adams on Friday, after an internal riot that included a wave of resignations on the management of the Adams case.
At least seven officials of the Department of Justice have resigned as part of the consequences of the Adams legal saga, including Danielle R. Sassoon, who was the main federal prosecutor in Manhattan. The interim attached attorney general, Emil Bove, ordered US prosecutors in New York to dismiss charges against Adams, arguing in part that the case was interfering with Adams’s ability to help administration to address illegal immigration.
Sassoon, a conservative who secreted the late judge of the Supreme Court, Antonin Scalia, resigned in a memorandum very drafted the attorney general Pam Bondi, who said that during a meeting on January 31 with the lawyers of Bove and Adams, “the lawyers Adams repeatedly urged what was equivalent to what was equivalent to what was equivalent to what was equivalent to what amounted to Adams lawyers. Only if the accusation were dismissed. “
Adams, who was elected mayor in 2021 and is ready for re -election in November, was accused last year for bribes and fraud charges and had faced a trial in April.
Adams declared himself innocent and insisted that he is innocent and that the positions are politically motivated. Adams and his lawyer, Alex Spiro, vehemently denied any Quid Pro quo offered at the January 31 meeting.
