Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker told Newsmax it’s possible the Feds targeted New York City Mayor Eric Adams for indictment because he criticized the Biden administration, but that the investigation will have to play out.

On “The Chris Salcedo Show” Thursday, Whitaker said, “First of all, I mean, these are serious charges. And, you know, they believe that they have the goods on him for taking illegal bribes and doing official acts after receiving those bribes.”

But, he said, “I thought the most interesting thing of the whole day was when Eric Adams suggested that he was targeted by the Biden administration and the Department of Justice under Merrick Garland because he had criticized them about their failure at the border and the immigrant crisis he’s seeing in New York City. That’s probably the most interesting part of what we’ve heard.”

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