Eric Adams cozies up with Trump surrogates for fourth time in recent weeks this time at National Prayer Breakfast
Mayor Eric Adams rubbed elbows with President Trump’s surrogates for at least the fourth time in recent weeks as he tries to cozy up to the leader of the free world while facing federal corruption charges.Adams and City Hall kept tight-lipped Thursday about whom he hobnobbed with during the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC.Trump headlined the prayer breakfast, which has long been a key spot for ambitious politicians, conniving lobbyists and even Russian spies to bend the ears of top officials of any presidential administration.Adams attended at the invite of controversial Pastor Mark Burns, whom Time Magazine has anointed “Trump’s Top Pastor.”“Honored to host my friend NYC Mayor Eric Adams once again here at The National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC as World leaders, including President Trump coming together to pray not just for America but the World,” Burns tweeted, along with a chummy photo with the mayor.The mayor’s trip was his second mad dash to Washington, DC in recent weeks.Adams’ embracing of Trump comes as the mayor faces corruption charges and his legal team lobbies to score a presidential pardon or have the case dropped.Adams, a Democrat, has conspicuously avoided criticizing Trump — and sometimes appeared to have little to do with city policy.Adams traveled to Florida to meet with the Republican Trump near Mar-a-Lago days before the inauguration.The mostly vegan Adams also broke bread — and ate fish — with Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a Trump ally, around that time.Hizzoner then skipped Martin Luther King Jr.Day events in the city to instead make an impromptu early-morning trek to attend Trump’s inauguration — a trip he undertook while suffering pain that prompted his uncharacteristic disappearance from the public eye last week.The inauguration trip saw Adams consigned to an overflow room with the likes of Jake and Logan Paul, and prompted a torrent of criticism.Adams has maintained his various trip...