Mayor Adams says ‘deep state’ is real, calls on ‘everybody’ to read Kash Patel’s book
They’re deep thinkers.
Mayor Eric Adams copped to believing the “deep state” is real this week — echoing President Trump and the MAGA movement.
“I don’t want to sound conspiracy theory, but there’s a permanent government,” Adams told comedian Andrew Schulz on the “Flagrant Podcast” Wednesday.
“There are people that see presidents and mayors come and go. Their attitudes will wait you out.”
The admittedly tin foil hat stance from Adams came on the same day a judge dismissed the federal corruption case that has dogged him since September.
Adams — after Manhattan federal Judge Dale Ho tossed the charges for good Wednesday — closed a victorious address outside Gracie Mansion by holding up a book from Trump partisan and current FBI Director Kash Patel called “Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy.”
The Democratic mayor, who on Thursday announced he’d be running for re-election on an independent line in November, glowingly – if conspiratorially – praised the book in subsequent interviews for opening his eyes to what he claimed happened to him.
“Everybody should read the book,” Adams told Schulz.
“Of course, of course, we like Kash. But is this like what people refer to? And I think this word has been used too much, but like the deep state or whatever it is,” Schulz pushed back.
“It’s not used too much. It’s real, brother,” Adams responded.
The mayor forged ahead, “(Patel) comes with this wealth of knowledge and the way he breaks it down, it’s just unbelievable what this deep state is about and why it’s so important for Americans that we cannot have a weaponizing of our prosecutorial powers.”
Adams has contended that Southern District of New York prosecutors targeted him after he spoke up about former President Joe Biden’s dealing with the migrant crisis.
He acknowledged on the podcast that it was a situation that struck a chord with Trump, who has maintained his myriad criminal cases were retribution by his political enemies.
“He didn’t have to come out on his campaign trail and say, this is wrong what they’re doing to Eric,” Adams gratefully said of Trump. “He did it at rallies.”
Federal prosecutors started their corruption probe into Adams in 2021 – before he was elected mayor and before hundreds of thousands of migrants ended up in New York City.
The historic indictment against Adams accused him of accepting bribes from Turkish nationals in the form of luxury travel perks such as flight upgrades.
Adams, though he spilled his guts about the deep state with Schulz, didn’t entirely open up with the popular podcaster.
Schulz jokingly asked Adams what’s the best “bodega boner pill.”
“If I answer that, I’ll be on the front page of The Post,” Adams said.
