New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared Tuesday that he is “no longer facing legal questions” after the Justice Department moved to shield him from the bribery charges that have been hanging over his reelection campaign.
But now, with the Democratic primary just four months away, he faces a seemingly impossible political balancing act.
The Democrat may have to continue pleasing Republican President Donald Trump with his policies and public statements to keep the charges from being revived — while simultaneously convincing voters in a deep-blue city that he’s still his own man.
Adams’ fraught position is owed to a section of the extraordinary Justice Department memo that ordered prosecutors to drop
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