Flattery Will Corrupt the King Every Damn Time! And Attaint the State

 

New York Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, had been charged by Federal prosecutors with bribery, fraud, and the solicitation of illegal foreign campaign donations. The case was set to go to trial in the spring. But hold on, Snoopy, because Trump's Justice Department just ordered New York prosecutors to drop the cases against Adams.

Boy howdy! How flattery of Trump seems always to pay off for some of the worst people in the nation.

Adams began sucking up to Trump immediately after the November elections, clearly angling for a presidential pardon for his money-grubbing in forbidden places and the fraud that went with it. Adams got himself to Mar-a-Lago even before the Inauguration, Jan. 17th, to kiss ass and heap appalling praise on the man who could -- and as it turns out, did -- save his ass from prosecution for crimes against civic integrity.

Yesterday, Trump's Justice Department ordered the prosecutors in Manhattan to drop their charges against Adams, who had, incidentally, stepped up his ass-kissing campaign substantially, meekly meeting with Trump's border czar, apparently promising to help deliver on demand his quota of illegal brown people into the gentle hands of ICE. And just yesterday, before Trump's DOJ demanded the charges be dropped, Adams was telling other high officials of NYCity not to criticize the king -- whatever the hell you do!

Does public corruption ever get more ... uh, public? Flatter the effing king, and he might just kill a fat goose for you.