What Next: Eric Adams May Not Get Out of This One

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.6 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Eric Adams’ political career has been heavy on soundbites and low-simmering scandals. But now, as mayor of New York, he might have finally risen far enough to fall. Guest: David Freedlander, New York Magazine contributor and the author of The AOC Generation: How Millennials Are Seizing Power and Rewriting the Rules of American Politics. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Twas a night in November at your pal's Christmas party when an elf arrives.
0:08.0	Oh, with a toffee night latte!
0:10.0	Hey everyone, who wants a Starbucks?
0:14.0	Ooy! Same one for me!
0:16.0	Get the group together for Starbucks festive favorites. It's IRL season.
0:22.0	At a Starbucks near you.
0:25.0	Ahem.
0:26.0	Subject of ability while stocks last. When I asked veteran New York City reporter David Friedlander to lay out one moment, one scene that encapsulates what's going on with New York City's
0:45.0	Mayor Eric Adams right now, he knew exactly what to say.
0:51.8	The scene is that he was attending an event in New York a couple of weeks ago.
0:58.0	I think he was leaving the event with his security detail and FBI agents stopped the vehicle and ordered Eric
1:10.0	Adam to turn over his phones, tablets, devices.
1:14.8	I mean this is a kind of thing that really feels like it's out of a movie.
1:20.4	You know, I've never heard of anything like that. I mean the FBI does not stop the mayor of New York
1:28.1	and demand his phone unless they fear that he's going to sort of throw in East River or something.
1:35.0	We don't know exactly why the FBI was after the mayor's phone, but we can make some
1:40.8	educated guesses.
1:42.8	The district attorney in Manhattan is investigating the Adams administration over
1:46.2	campaign finance irregularities.
1:48.8	The home of a top aid was just searched.
1:51.9	There are allegations that the mayor's team was getting paid
1:54.1	to do favors for the Turkish government. To be clear, the mayor insists he is
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