Speaker 1: Hey, and welcome back to The Michael Cohen Show on
our journey to two hundred and fifty thousands of scars,
and we're almost a two hundred thanks to you. Now,
I want to talk about yesterday. I want to talk
about last night Eric Adams, the mayor of New York.
And you may say, well, that's on more of a
local issue, it's not. It's not what it goes to
is It goes to the concept of corruption that's taking
place in government all across the board. Now, I'm not
saying that Eric Adams is innocent, nor am I saying
that he's guilty. How many times have you heard me,
even on this show, turn around and say, in America,
we have a presumption of innocence until proven guilty, and
under that theory, I want to show you a clip
of Eric Adams talking about the indictment.
Speaker 2: Play the clip, my fellow New Yorkers. It is now
my belief that the federal government intends to charge me
with crimes. If so, these charges would be entirely false,
based on lies, but they would not be surprising. I
always knew that if I stood my ground for all
of you, that I would be a target and a
target I became. For months, leaks and rumors have been
aimed at me in an attempt to undermine my credibility
and paint me as guilty. Just this past week, they
searched the home of our new police commissioner looking for
documents from twenty years ago, just one week after he
joined my administration. Enough, I would fight these injustices with
every ounce of my strength and my spirit.
Speaker 1: Now, look, I want to be clear about something. I
happened to know Eric Adams, and I happened to like
Eric Adams. However, I do take umbrage to some of
the statements that he just made. There is he trying
to say that the Biden Justice Department, the Biden Justice Department,
is being weaponized to go against him based upon what
the migrant issue. I'm not one hundred percent certain what
issue that he's referring to, that the Justice Department would
be coming after him. I don't buy that. I don't
And you also know that I have no love for
the Southern District of New York, and they're prosecutors, but
this one, very much like mine, is a very high
profile case, and they're going to have to have something.
There's no chance in the world that they are going
in to this case completely blind with made up information.
You see, in my specific case, what did they had,
They had the campaign finance violation, and then what they
do is they pile stuff on you in order to
add to it, despite the fact that many of those
allegations are let's just say, non prosecutable or should not
have been prosecuted at all. But I want to now,
I want to show you what Caitlin Collins of CNN
said the other night, play that flip.
Speaker 3: The New York Times is now reporting that New York
City Mayor Eric Adams has just been indicted tonight by
federal prosecutors. It's still under seal as of this hour,
so we're still waiting on a lot of the details here.
But this comes as there has been a flood of
resignations in his administration, and of course we have seen
several of them embroiled in investigations from his administration. The
phones seized by several of them, including the police commissioner,
the school chancellor, the deputy mayor, several officials in his administration.
This has all been going on as today we saw
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocostio Cortez, one of the most prominent voices
in the Democratic Party who doesn't often get involved in
the politics of New York City on the local level,
calling for Adams to resign, saying she did not see
how he could continue to govern the city. He responded
to that by saying that he had not faced any
charges yet. Of course, now tonight we see that he
has been indicted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I understand, and I appreciate everybody chiming in,
and they all have a right to say whatever they want.
It's called the First Amendment, unless, of course he Michael
Cohen and Donald Trump was the president. But you have
the First Amendment right to say whatever you want. Whether
you're a congress person or just a lay person, it
makes no difference. So they can call for it. He's
not stepping down. He's already made that crystal clear. But
what I want to turn around, and I want to
just spend a second and talk about, is what these
charges are stemming from. The New York Times actually reported
that what it's regarding is an influx of campaign finance
money that came from foreign sources, and one of those sources,
I believe was Turkey, where they had a construction project,
and somehow or another, that construction project was fast tracked
through a developer, through a construction company that ended up
donating that money or a large sum of money to
the Adams campaign in twenty twenty. Now, that is a
clear violation of campaign finance rules, and that is a
federal offense. I know, because that's what the Stormy Daniels
matter was, about what they're going to charge and what
they're going to pile on next that I have no idea,
but it appears that it wasn't just Turkey alone, that
there was other campaign finance money that was coming in
from foreign entities. This is a problem. This is a
real problem. Now, when I said earlier that they must
have information out in my mind that the contractor or
other people must have provided testimony and documents to the
Southern District, they're not that stupid that they're going to
jump in with something like this. But nevertheless, Mayor Adams
is claiming that he's innocent. Play that clip.
Speaker 2: If I'm charged, I know I am innocent. I will
request in immediate trials so the New Yorkers can hear
the truth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he has the right within which to plead not guilty,
and then they will, of course unseal the indictment. I
suspect they will, and they will also then have to
turn over what's called three H two's. Those are grand
jury documents that were obtained and used in order to
get the indictment. That's going to be very interesting because
that tells the whole story. You see. I wasn't able
to get them because in my Space Pacific case, I
was literally I was told if I didn't plead guilty,
and this is on a Friday five point thirty. By Monday,
they were filing an eighty page indictment was going to
include my wife and I was like, what, But he
doesn't have that situation, Thank goodness, And those three O twos,
which are the statements that were made in order to
obtain the indictment, will be released. I for one, am
very interested, I really am. I'm interested in order to
read all of the allegations that are raised in the
three twos. I'm interested to see the indictment, the specifics,
and hopefully they provided the specifics so that we can
all see whether or not our Mayor Eric Adams is
actually guilty of this campaign finance violation, because if he's not,
this is a real serious problem once again for our
Department of Justice, and it will change my entire perspective
about the weaponization of the Justice Department under this current administration.
You see, I have often said, while I am pro
Harris and Walls, and I've always been pro Biden, I've
never been a fan, for example, of Merrick Garland, our
Attorney general. And I am very curious just to see
how this whole thing plays out, not just as somebody
who has gone through the system, but somebody who's a lawyer.
And so we all are on pins and needles waiting
for this information. We're waiting for the release of the
information so that we can review it and discuss it
here on episodes like that. Nevertheless, despite the fact this
isn't about the campaign and so on, I will still
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