## When the Hammer Falls on You
Eric Adams just said the quiet part out loud. The outgoing New York City mayor sat down with Fox News and did something remarkable for a Democrat: he admitted the Biden Justice Department turned into a political weapon aimed squarely at anyone who stepped out of line.
“I think what we have witnessed under President Biden’s Justice Department, Americans should never have to live through that again,” Adams told viewers. Strong words from a guy who spent most of his career on the other side of the aisle.
But here’s the thing. Adams didn’t wake up one morning with a sudden appreciation for constitutional limits on prosecutorial power. He got indicted in September on corruption charges, and suddenly the scales fell from his eyes. Personal experience has a funny way of clarifying things, doesn’t it?
The mayor drew direct parallels between his treatment and what happened to Trump. The raid on Mar-a-Lago. The targeting of everyday parents at school board meetings who dared question what their kids were learning. Charlie Kirk getting hassled. The list goes on, and it’s not pretty.
## A Come-to-Jesus Moment
Adams acknowledged his awakening with refreshing honesty. When asked if he felt this angry about DOJ overreach before becoming a target himself, he said “personal experience allows us to see firsthand the abuse.” Translation: yeah, I didn’t fully get it until they came after me.
Give the man credit for admitting it. Most politicians would twist themselves into pretzels avoiding that confession. Adams at least owns the trajectory of his thinking.
He pointed to his background as a cop and his work on criminal justice reform. Said he’s been fighting abuse in the system his whole life, going back to when he was roughed up by police as a young man. Maybe that’s true. But there’s a massive difference between local police misconduct and the full weight of federal prosecutorial power being deployed for political purposes.
The Biden DOJ didn’t just go after Adams and Trump. They surveilled parents. They pursued political enemies with a zeal that would make J. Edgar Hoover blush. They turned the machinery of justice into a cudgel for enforcing ideological conformity.
## What Lawfare Actually Looks Like
Let’s be clear about what we’re talking about. Lawfare isn’t legitimate prosecution. It’s using the legal system as a battlefield to destroy opponents when you can’t beat them through normal democratic means. It’s prosecution as persecution.
Trump said this was happening for years. His supporters knew it in their bones. But the media and the establishment called it conspiracy theory, called it paranoia, called it everything except what it was: the truth.
Now Adams is saying the same thing. A Democratic mayor from the bluest city in America is confirming that the Justice Department under Biden operated like a political hit squad. That should tell you something.
The charges against Adams got dismissed with prejudice recently. Interesting timing, that. Almost like once Biden was gone and Trump returned, suddenly the case didn’t seem quite so airtight anymore.
## The Bigger Picture Nobody Wants to Face
This isn’t just about two politicians who got roughed up by federal prosecutors. It’s about the fundamental compact between citizens and their government. When people can’t trust that justice is blind, when they believe the system punishes political dissent, the whole thing starts to crumble.
Republicans have been screaming about this for years. The IRS targeting conservative nonprofits under Obama. The Russia collusion hoax. The coordinated censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story. Pattern after pattern of institutions being weaponized against half the country.
Adams experienced a fraction of what Trump and his supporters endured, and suddenly he’s outraged. Welcome to the party, Mayor. Better late than never.
The question now is whether anything changes. Trump’s back in office. He’s got a chance to clean house and restore some integrity to federal law enforcement. But the bureaucracy is deep, and the resistance is real.
Adams warned that New York isn’t fine under incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani. He’s worried about the city’s future. Maybe he should’ve worried more about the country’s future when federal power was being abused on a massive scale and he stayed quiet.
Still, credit where it’s due. He’s speaking up now. And every voice that calls out this garbage makes it harder for the next administration to pull the same tricks.
Americans deserve a Justice Department that enforces laws, not political agendas. They deserve prosecutors who seek justice, not scalps. And they deserve leaders who’ll stand up against abuse of power even when it’s their own party doing the abusing.
Adams learned that lesson the hard way. Let’s hope others figure it out before they need a federal indictment to see clearly.
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