California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing a fierce challenger in the race for Most Shameless Liar: New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
Adams touted his administration’s work to fix the “severe mental illness crisis playing out on our streets” in an op-ed for the New York Post. “While rare, we continue to experience unacceptable random attacks committed by people who desperately need help,” Adams writes.
Let’s strip away the euphemisms.
Those “rare” attacks are better imagined by the New York Post itself, which ran a story detailing an alleged heroin addict reportedly raping a corpse on a Manhattan subway. The deceased had expired several hours before the assault began, according to the outlet.
For another subway story, try a (previously deported) illegal migrant burning a sleeping passenger to death. Or a stabbing. Or another stabbing (this one fatal). The list of horrific violence exacted on a single New York City metro line probably exceeds the scope of a single article.
No wonder Adams elides specifics. “The Big Apple” is slightly more tourist-friendly than “The City Where Necrophilic Arsonists Never Sleep.”
Then there was Jordan Neely, beloved Michael Jackson impersonator and routine metro menace.
The mayor mourned Neely’s death by appealing to racial grievances. “One of our own is dead, a Black man, Black like me. A man named Jordan, the name I gave my son,” he said in a statement in May 2023. (RELATED: Daniel Penny’s Attorney Explains Why He’s Optimistic Manhattan Jury Won’t Try To ‘Right Racial Wrongs’ In His Case | The Daily Caller)
He noted Neely had, in his short but colorful life, “interacted with many city agencies” and faced “various encounters with the criminal justice system.”
This prompts an obvious question. Why wasn’t he in prison?
Such encounters include an arrest following Neely’s brutal assault of a 67-year-old woman in 2021. The victim sustained injuries including a broken nose and a fractured orbital bone, according to Fox News.
Still, Adams maintained, “Jordan Neely did not deserve to die.” Nor did those he threatened to murder, one might retort.
Adams later seemed to suggest he was bamboozled by the media’s representation of Neely.
“Look at the photo that they used to show the victim,” Adams said in an interview on the Rob Astorino Show, “It seemed like it was a young innocent child who was brutally murdered…it wanted to set up in the minds of people that we were dealing with a young innocent child that was, you know, just a Michael Jackson [impersonator].”
Regardless, the mayor continues to give lip service to solving the city’s vagrancy problem while racking up an inconsistent record.
He brags about “back-to-back record-breaking years of producing affordable housing with 2,761 total units produced in 2024 alone.” Adams avoids mention of the bougie housing procured for illegal migrants at New York City’s Roosevelt Hotel, which quickly became a nest of crime. (RELATED: Migrants Won’t Be Putting Their Feet Up At One NYC Hotel Much Longer | The Daily Caller)
“‘We should protect our immigrants.” Period,” the Mayor posted on X in 2021. “Yes, New York City will remain a sanctuary city under an Adams administration.” Adams announced he would shut down the hotel just four years later.
“We should protect our immigrants.” Period.
Yes, New York City will remain a sanctuary city under an Adams administration. #EricOnNBC
— Eric Adams (@ericadamsfornyc) October 20, 2021
The mayor’s rapid rhetorical shift comes as he runs for re-election. This time, as an independent. There’s not a “liberal or conservative way” to fix New York, Adams said in an announcement video, but there is “a right way and a wrong way.”
Adams’ newfound way warrants intense scrutiny. Sure, people change. But politicians?
“Our administration has skillfully managed this crisis, which has seen over 232,000 migrants enter our city asking for shelter, and The Roosevelt Hotel has been key in allowing us to effectively manage our operations, processing over 173,000 individuals through these doors,” Adams said.
The admission of 232,000 illegal migrants into an American metropole is now evidence of skillful management. Truly masterful work from the Eric Adams communications team.
The mayor defended New York City’s “sanctuary” status in an interview with Tucker Carlson in January 2025:
Tucker Carlson and Eric Adams debate sanctuary cities. pic.twitter.com/vMOIzOObaA
— Tucker Carlson Network (@TCNetwork) January 22, 2025
“As long as you’re here, you have a right to get the services your tax dollars are paying for,” said Adams in reference to illegal migrants.
The “never acknowledge, never apologize” brand of politicking has been adopted in spectacular fashion by Gavin Newsom. Newsom, like Adams, has rebranded as a moderate.
“I mean, because of our own policies and neglect, we put up our feet. We rested on our laurels,” said Newsom of California’s failing approach to homelessness. Newsom is somehow still confident that, with billions down the drain under his watch, he’s the right man to turn things around.
Perhaps the governor is counting on fluoride-induced short-term memory loss to convince constituents of his authenticity. Or brain damage incurred from listening to his podcast.
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