Eric Adams torches Harris, Dems for blasting Maduro arrest as Mamdani fumes ‘act of war’
Just two days after posting a social media video signaling his freedom from government office, former New York Mayor Eric Adams slammed fellow Democrats over their response to President Donald...
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Just two days after posting a social media video signaling his freedom from government office, former New York Mayor Eric Adams slammed fellow Democrats over their response to President Donald Trump ’s operation to capture Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. Adams previously posted a video of himself with a cigar and what appeared to be bourbon, smiling as he lambasted the government as "slow as s---" filled with people trying to throw "sand in the gears" and predicting an "unforgettable, bada--, no bull---- 2026" – before issuing a starkly different message on Maduro than his mayoral successor. By the weekend, Adams followed through, openly weighing in by thanking Trump for "hit[ting] the cartels where it hurts" through Maduro’s detention and sharply criticizing former Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Joe Biden’s approach to the Venezuelan strongman. "I have seen firsthand how Nicolás Maduro destroyed Venezuela and turned it into a narco-state. Millions fled. Thousands landed in New York City ," he said. GREGG JARRETT: NO, TRUMP'S ORDER TO SNATCH MADURO WAS NOT ILLEGAL OR UNCONSTITUTIONAL "Now in U.S. custody, the man who helped flood our streets with fentanyl is finally being held accountable. American lives were destroyed because of him." Turning to those in his party, Adams said that days before Biden and Harris left office, they increased the bounty on Maduro to $25 million from an Obama-era $10 million. Harris had said that Trump’s detaining of Maduro "do[es] not make America safer" and that the despot being an "illegitimate dictator does not change the fact that this action was both unlawful and unwise … The American people do not want this, and they are tired of being lied to." LAWMAKERS RIP BIDEN AFTER TRUMP-MADURO TAUNT RESURFACES – CALL IT BASELESS AND POLITICALLY CHARGED "Public safety is not a political game," Adams replied to Harris. "You do not label someone a narco-dictator one year and then pretend he is no longer a threat the next…