Following Thursday's unsealed indictment, New York City Mayor Eric Adams joins a handful of other indicted by the Biden administration's . Under President , the DOJ has issued two federal indictments against former President —one for mishandling classified documents and another for alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election—but it has also pursued Democrats, most notably the president's son, . Last November, Trump said in a Noticias Univision interview that the DOJ "has allowed the next party, if I happen to be president, and I see someone doing well and beating me very badly, I say go down and indict them.
..they'd be out of the election.
" He has repeatedly called the indictments against him part of a political witch hunt. On Thursday, the 57-page indictment against Adams was , revealing five federalcharges related to contributions to his 2021 campaign, including luxury gifts from foreign entities, wire fraud, and bribery. He said he has no plans to resign as he faces these criminal charges.
The mayor is expected to have several days to turn himself in to authorities. Biden's son Hunter Biden has been indicted twice during his father's presidency. First, in September 2023, on three felony counts related to his purchase of a firearm.
In June, he was convicted of all three charges and is scheduled to be sentenced on November 13. His second indictment arrived in December 2023, when he was , three of which are felony counts. The DOJ alleged that Hunter Biden "engaged in a.
