Al Sharpton: If Trump Truly Felt Eric Adams Was a Victim of a Political Vendetta, Why Didn’t He Pardon Him?

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SHARPTON: "I think that I've made clear that I’ve been a friend of the mayor’s for years, but we have disagreed, and I strongly disagree that the mayor is some victim of a political vendetta. I said that to him. I said that any number of times in public. And I think that it was in the mayor’s interest to go to trial and prove himself innocent if he’s innocent. Just because someone has been — you’ve been knowing a lot of years does not mean that you’re going to not look at the fact that it is very suspect to me that this White House and this Justice Department wanted to have the trial put off with no prejudice, so that they can try him again, when if they felt he was — if President Trump genuinely felt that he was a victim of a political vendetta, then why didn’t he pardon him? And my only answer that I could think of, he wouldn’t pardon him because then they wouldn’t have this leash to yank on him if he didn’t do what they wanted him to do. When he sat on FOX television the other morning and Homan said to his face 'You know, if you didn’t do what we wanted, I’d be up your butt,' I’ve never seen a mayor of a major city, the major city in the country, so humiliated, and he took that. So I’ve said, and I repeat, that I think that the culprit in this is the Trump Administration manipulating this situation, having the people fight against a black U.S. Attorney, Damian Williams, against a black mayor, and having us in the middle.