President-elect Donald Trump said he would consider pardoning New York City Mayor Eric Adams, at a Mar-a-Lago press conference on Monday.
Adams faces fraud and corruption charges detailed in an indictment unsealed in September.
When asked if he would consider the pardon, Trump said, “Yeah I would. I think that he was treated pretty unfairly.”
Among the federal charges is that Adams accepted a flight upgrade and other travel accommodations.
Trump said Adams’s airplane upgrade was “many years ago” and that he would have “to look at the facts” before deciding.
Speaking at his Palm Beach, Florida, estate, Trump said he foresaw Adams’s indictment after the mayor spoke out against the illegal immigrant surge into New York City as “unsustainable.”…