Eric Adams is taking a page out of the Trump playbook

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : "Trump is an expert in lashing out at prosecutors and has been doing so for years -- his mentor, Roy Cohn, perfected the "attack, attack, attack" strategy.
50% : "I don't know the mayor well, but he's been fairly generous to me in his statements," Trump said before eventually wishing him well.
47% : At a press conference in New York City on Thursday afternoon, Trump defended Adams and praised the mayor's immigration stance.
35% : Beyond painting themselves a victim or "target," Trump and Adams struck a similar tone another topic: immigration.
32% : As a businessman, presidential hopeful, president, and now candidate once more, Trump has gone after just about every local, state, and federal prosecutor he's encountered.
31% : Trump and his allies have argued the cases pending against him are all politically motivated "lawfare" and directed by President Joe Biden, even when there's no evidence to support such claims.
22% : Yet on Thursday, Trump doubled down on the notion that federal lawsuits function as retribution.
14% : Trump echoed the mayor's unfounded claim that the charges are related to his critiques of Biden's immigration policies.

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