Far right fake news website the Gateway Pundit on Thursday sort of half-assed their portrayal of New York City Mayor Eric Adams as a victim of “lawfare” at the hands of the “Biden Regime” and the “Department of Injustice” after FBI agents raided the home of Adams’s top campaign fundraiser in connection with an investigation into whether he accepted laundered contributions from the Turkish government, with Gateway just kind of implying that Adams might’ve been subject to “retribution” over his criticism of the Biden Administration’s immigration policies and the city’s migrant “crisis.”
FBI Launches Investigation into Alleged Corruption in Mayor Eric Adams’s 2021 Election Campaign Over Illegal Donations From Turkey via @gatewaypundit https://t.co/S1ENld5RN3
— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) November 3, 2023
“On Wednesday, Eric Adams, along with far-left mayors of Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver, and Houston, banded together in a plea for a staggering $5 billion in federal aid from the Biden regime. This request comes as these self-declared ‘sanctuary cities’ grapple with the burgeoning costs of their own immigration policies,” Jim Hoft wrote toward the end of the article, like he wanted to say outright that the FBI is Biden’s “personal gestapo” or some shit like he usually does, but his heart wasn’t quite in it this time around so he just went for a soft “sanctuary city” jab.
It’s really the only paragraph that comes anywhere close to invoking any MAGA political angle, with the rest of it being written in a mostly neutral tone atypical of an “editor” who just two days ago compared the Trump family’s current legal issues to the Romanovs being executed in a muddy basement by Russian Bolsheviks in 1918. Which seems to indicate that Hoft wanted to say Adams is getting “persecuted” with a “fraudulent” investigation – he sure as shit did not go off on a “corrupt Democrat lording over an urban shithole being exposed” like you might’ve expected – though he probably estimated that his readers may not’ve shared his apparent sympathy for a Black Dem.