{"id":33579,"date":"2025-02-17T13:31:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T13:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/nyc-mayor-adams-refuses-to-resign-in-sermon-i-have-a-mission-to-finish\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T13:31:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T13:31:27","slug":"nyc-mayor-adams-refuses-to-resign-in-sermon-i-have-a-mission-to-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/nyc-mayor-adams-refuses-to-resign-in-sermon-i-have-a-mission-to-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Adams refuses to resign in sermon: ‘I have a mission to finish’"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City Mayor Eric Adams told churchgoers on Sunday that he\u2019s on a mission from God and won\u2019t resign from office as he faces allegations of a quid pro quo with President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n

Adams made the remarks during a sermon at Maranatha Baptist Church in Queens, telling the gathering, “I am going nowhere,” the New York Post<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

“I have a mission to finish, the mission that God put me on many years ago,” Adams said, adding that “God has fortified me.”<\/p>\n

Adams told “Fox & Friends” in an interview on Friday that he plans to run for re-election as a Democrat.<\/p>\n

NEW YORK CITY MAYOR ERIC ADAMS SAYS HE WILL RUN FOR RE-ELECTION AS DEMOCRAT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Adams, a Democrat who said he was targeted by the Biden administration, was indicted in September on charges including bribery, soliciting campaign contributions from foreign nationals, wire fraud and conspiracy. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.<\/p>\n

The decision to drop the case<\/a> against Adams came as part of Trump’s effort to overhaul the Justice Department, which he said has been weaponized against political opponents.<\/p>\n

Attorney General Pam Bondi defended the decision to drop the case, telling Fox News in an interview Friday that Adams was <\/a>targeted <\/a>after he criticized the Biden administration’s immigration policies.<\/p>\n

Several senior\u00a0Justice Department\u00a0officials <\/a>resigned <\/a>in protest Thursday rather than comply with an order to drop a bribery case against Adams.<\/p>\n

After the charges were dropped, Adams was accused of a quid pro quo over his willingness to work with the Trump administration crackdown to curb illegal immigration, and has faced calls to resign.<\/p>\n

“I just find it so amazing \u2014 the most sanctified among us are calling for me to step down,” Adams told the church gathering. “I\u2019m not going to step down. I\u2019m going to step up.<\/p>\n

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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul<\/a> said Thursday evening that she was considering removing Adams from office amid the allegations of a quid pro quo.<\/p>\n

“The allegations are extremely concerning and serious, but I cannot as the governor of this state have a knee-jerk, politically motivated reaction like a lot of other people are saying right now,” she said.<\/p>\n

Hochul is the only state official who has the power to remove Adams from his position.<\/p>\n

Hochul further stated, “I have to do what\u2019s smart, what\u2019s right and I\u2019m consulting with other leaders in government at this time.”<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital\u2019s Louis Casiano and The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York City Mayor Eric Adams told churchgoers on Sunday that he\u2019s on a mission from God and won\u2019t resign from office as he faces allegations of a quid pro quo with President Donald Trump\u2019s administration. Adams made the remarks during a sermon at Maranatha Baptist Church in Queens, telling the gathering, “I am going … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}