I'm John Batson with my colleagues Andrew McCarthy, the National Review Online, and that

is McCona of American Greatness.

I mentioned that this is a time for you to get a subscription to the National Review Online,

which I read very carefully, not just Andy's column, but everybody's column, because the National

Review Online is witty.

I read it for the humor.

I also read it for the facts, and we're discussing the Eric Adams' controversy.

And Thaddy's, you had a question because I want to speak of lawfare internationally.

Do you have a question about Eric Adams?

Well, I have a question really about the way that they dropped it. So, Andy, when the

Trump people dropped the case, they talked about it being politically, and that was just to

keep it alive and keep it without prejudice, wasn't it? Again, there was no evidence that that

was a political prosecution. It was not lawfare, shall we say? Again, there was no evidence that that was a political prosecution.

It was not law fair, shall we say. Yeah, that's right, Thaddeus. In the decision that Judge Dale

Ho of the Southern District of New York, a Biden appointee issued on Wednesday, he noted that the Justice Department had made this sort of insinuation.

It's so thinly supported that they won't really even come out and say it.

But this idea that the prosecution against Adams might have been election interference,

might have been inappropriately motivated.

There was there was no real support for that.

What Judge Ho ended up saying, which is I think what most people have argued to this point,

is that that was a pretext for an arrangement to or to conceal an arrangement or camouflage,

an arrangement in which the Trump Justice Department

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