“Donald Trump’s Thursday Afternoon Massacre” – Ryan Cooper & David Dayen (Prospect)

“The law as it applies to Adams will be ignored, so long as he does Trump’s bidding. Adams himself appeared on Fox News today with Trump deportation czar Tom Homan, who needled the mayor while admitting to the conspiracy again: “If he doesn’t come through … I’ll be in his office, up his butt, saying, ‘Where the hell is the agreement we came to?’”

The obvious corrupt nature of the deal prompted acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Danielle R. Sassoon—a Trump appointee and Federalist Society member who clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia—to resign. Sassoon’s resignation letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi was blisteringly critical, and made more eye-popping allegations”

https://prospect.org/justice/2025-02-14-trump-eric-adams-corruption-sassoon/