{"id":254855,"date":"2025-03-08T18:28:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T18:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/5-things-to-know-about-the-rise-and-fall-of-mayor-eric-adams\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T18:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T18:28:13","slug":"5-things-to-know-about-the-rise-and-fall-of-mayor-eric-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/5-things-to-know-about-the-rise-and-fall-of-mayor-eric-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Things to Know About the Rise and Fall of Mayor Eric Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/23\/magazine\/23mag-adams-takeaway\/23mag-adams-takeaway-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"5 Things to Know About the Rise and Fall of Mayor Eric Adams\" title=\"5 Things to Know About the Rise and Fall of Mayor Eric Adams\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mayor Eric Adams won his office four years ago pledging to deliver New Yorkers from chaos and calamity \u2014 a former lawman entrusted to tame a proudly unruly city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It hasn\u2019t happened that way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Over nearly 100 interviews with aides, allies and adversaries spanning Adams\u2019s life and career, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/08\/magazine\/eric-adams-mayor-nyc.html\" title=\"\">The Times Magazine found a mayor and a city unmoored,<\/a> their fates entwined whether or not residents want them to be. Long before his indictment last fall on federal corruption charges, Adams became the avatar of New York\u2019s day-to-day disorder, a volatile leader to match (and contribute to) volatile times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His chosen path out of his personal crisis, many details of which have not been previously reported, involved cozying up to a new president whom most of Adams\u2019s constituents oppose \u2014 and offering those constituents, federal prosecutors have said, as human collateral to the Trump White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Here are five takeaways from our reporting:<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-2upsz0 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-209f547e\">Adams (and Trump) have played the long game <\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Trump and Adams, two sons of Queens, seemed to understand each other from the start. When Trump encountered the mayor at a charity dinner in October, weeks before the presidential election, he put his arm around him in private. Adams\u2019s friend, former Gov. David Paterson, said that Adams was quiet for the rest of the night. \u201cAlmost like he\u2019s thinking about it,\u201d Paterson said. \u201cLike: \u2018Is this possible? Boy.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Trump urged Adams to \u201chang in there\u201d before publicly suggesting that both men had been persecuted by the Biden Justice Department. Adams, a Democrat who criticized Trump\u2019s \u201cidiot behavior\u201d during the president\u2019s first term, has not said a cross word about him since. By January, he was flying to Florida to dine with Trump days before the inauguration. And Trump had acquired a useful new friend in his native city: a mayor straining to cling to both his office and his freedom.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-2upsz0 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-2fdd0cc9\">Adams is a political shape-shifter <\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Adams has always been an adaptable politician, comfortable flip-flopping between the two major parties as the winds shifted. He was a Democrat, then a Republican in the 1990s, then a Democrat again. He briefly considered running in 2021 as a Republican. And he has considered it again in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In an interview, Tucker Carlson suggested Adams had formerly been \u201cintimidated into supporting things he doesn\u2019t believe\u201d and said he and the mayor \u201chave a lot of gut-level agreements.\u201d Adams was so open to Trump world that he even considered attending Trump\u2019s October campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Carlson told us, before deciding against the idea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cEric always was more right of center,\u201d the Rev. Al Sharpton told us. \u201cHe was not a fellow traveler.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-2upsz0 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-3e00f9a9\">The migrant crisis was Adams\u2019s first major test as mayor<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The city\u2019s migrant influx became a defining management crisis of Adams\u2019s term, decisively shaping his relationship with two presidents. \u201cJoe Biden is trying to hang me out to dry,\u201d the mayor told members of Congress visiting City Hall in 2023, according to an attendee. By 2025, the Trump administration, pushing for a dismissal of Adams\u2019s corruption charges, said the mayor needed to be uninhibited in assisting the new White House\u2019s deportation agenda.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Adams\u2019s views on immigration are more complicated than is widely understood. He has greeted asylum seekers personally upon their arrival to New York and slept on a cot in a tent shelter. He also predicted, long before his indictment, that the issue would \u201cdestroy\u201d the city, amplifying fears about migrants\u2019 committing both petty and violent crimes.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-2upsz0 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-17240284\">Adams is often loyal to a fault<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m going to make sure my people are taken care of,\u201d Adams said privately just after his win in the primary, noting that the white mayors before him did the same.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And so rather than choose a cabinet based solely on expertise, he created a City Hall divided between technocrats and cronies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The fallout has devastated City Hall and rendered it rudderless. By his fourth year in office, nearly all of Adams\u2019s most trusted aides had left amid investigations and scandal, including Adams\u2019s chief adviser, police commissioner, interim police commissioner, first deputy mayor and schools chancellor. Bill Bratton, a police commissioner under two previous mayors, diagnosed the problem: \u201cToo many friends with too many problems in too many high places.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-2upsz0 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-1d1badcc\">Adams has long tied his own story to the city\u2019s<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Adams has repeatedly told his audiences \u201cI am you.\u201d At his most effective, he has woven his biography \u2014 as a scofflaw youth who became an officer who became the mayor \u2014 into New York\u2019s own tumultuous and resilient history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe mayor must fit the characteristic of the city,\u201d Adams said last year. He does, especially now: self-regarding, sleepless, fast and loose, saddled with knotty crime problems. His legal duress has unfolded against the backdrop of a city that can feel as if it is losing its collective mind, unsettled by a reel of semi-surreal scenes, from the subways to the streets, that New Yorkers encounter every day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Maybe Adams is New York. But New York might not be his for long.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/08\/magazine\/mayor-eric-adams-nyc-corruption.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Eric Adams won his office four years ago pledging to deliver New Yorkers from chaos and calamity \u2014 a former lawman entrusted to tame a proudly unruly city. It hasn\u2019t happened that way. Over nearly 100 interviews with aides, allies and adversaries spanning Adams\u2019s life and career, The Times Magazine found a mayor and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/23\/magazine\/23mag-adams-takeaway\/23mag-adams-takeaway-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[85672,163575,28195,197033,197034,727,8270,572,52],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254857,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254855\/revisions\/254857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}