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Today, Explained

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2025-02-26

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First, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and President Donald Trump struck up an unlikely friendship. Then, the Trump administration ordered prosecutors to sidestep DOJ norms and drop corruption charges against Adams so that he could focus on cracking down on immigration. This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn and Devan Schwartz, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members New York City Mayor Eric Adams as he arrived for a court hearing earlier this month. Photo by Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • New York City Mayor Eric Adams has always been an odd guy.

  • As a state senator, he made a video explaining how to search your kid's room for contraband.

  • You can look in a jewelry box, a jewelry box of this nature, maybe a simple jewelry box,

  • but if you look through it closely, you don't know what your child may be hiding.

  • Fair.

  • You should always, when your child bring in his popular knapsack with many different locations,

  • look through it to see what exactly is your child carrying in addition to a book,

  • Something simple as a crack pipe.

  • A used crack pip.

  • Could he have found it on the street?

  • That's quite possible.

  • Wait, what?

  • Swagger as mayor?

  • There was the Urban Rat Summit, there was the baptism his at Rikers island.

  • And then there was the alleged corruption, the wire fraud, bribery, the indictment.

  • And then came the order from the Department of Justice that all those charges had to be dropped.

  • Ahead on Today Explained.

  • Where there's smoke, there's possible fire.

  • Friendly reminder, your taxes are due soon.

  • Sorry to scare you, but it's true.