Scandal-plagued, politically isolated and federally indicted Mayor Eric Adams could end up being one of the biggest winners of another Donald Trump presidency, insiders told The Post Thursday. The scuttlebutt swirling around the SOMOS conference — the annual political retreat in Puerto Rico where New York politicos hobnob — this week is that Trump in the White House makes it more likely Adams will legally and politically survive his historic bribery and corruption case. “There is going to be a resurrection of Eric Adams with a presidential pardon with Trump in office,” one Democratic operative quipped.
Trump has repeatedly expressed his belief that Adams has been railroaded by vengeful federal prosecutors — and some in the mayor’s camp after Tuesday’s election have double-downed on their theory that the incoming president could hamper the case or even toss a potential conviction, sources close to the mayor said. Adams’ inner circle itself is split into two camps over what Trump’s win means for Hizzoner, insiders told The Post. One camp believes that Trump could help Adams’ legal battle by either installing a new US Attorney, effectively killing the case, or by pardoning the mayor if he’s convicted in a trial, sources said.
But others close to Adams worry that if the federal case is dropped that state prosecutors in New York, perhaps even Attorney General Letitia James, could revive the case with a focus on straw donor accusations, sources said. The whisp.
