--- title: NYC Mayor Eric Adams Speaks After Trump DOJ Orders Prosecutors to Drop Charges Against Him | TIME description: The criminal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams is hanging by a thread after the Justice Department ordered federal prosecutors to drop the charges. canonical: https://time.com/video/BYd3ajXi/ og:title: NYC Mayor Eric Adams Speaks After Trump DOJ Orders Prosecutors to Drop Charges Against Him og:description: The criminal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams is hanging by a thread after the Justice Department ordered federal prosecutors to drop the charges. og:url: https://time.com/video/BYd3ajXi/ og:image: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/BYd3ajXi/poster.jpg?width=720 og:type: video.other twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: NYC Mayor Eric Adams Speaks After Trump DOJ Orders Prosecutors to Drop Charges Against Him twitter:description: The criminal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams is hanging by a thread after the Justice Department ordered federal prosecutors to drop the charges. twitter:image: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/BYd3ajXi/poster.jpg?width=720 --- * Politics # NYC Mayor Eric Adams Speaks After Trump DOJ Orders Prosecutors to Drop Charges Against Him ## Video: NYC Mayor Eric Adams Speaks After Trump DOJ Orders Prosecutors to Drop Charges Against Him [Watch (HLS stream): NYC Mayor Eric Adams Speaks After Trump DOJ Orders Prosecutors to Drop Charges Against Him](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/BYd3ajXi.m3u8) (2:47)  _Published 2025-02-11. The criminal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams is hanging by a thread after the Justice Department ordered federal prosecutors to drop the charges._ --- Feb 11, 2025 7:20 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [](/video/2c15KbDX/) 02:26 ### New York Mayor Eric Adams Reportedly Indicted: What We Know So Far [](/video/InER0yFv/) 01:58 ### NYC Mayor Eric Adams Comments on Federal Investigation into his 2021 Campaign [](/video/iaLZxlrQ/) 01:28 ### NYC Mayor Eric Adams Reacts to Jordan Neely's Death on Subway --- ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"NYC Mayor Eric Adams Speaks After Trump DOJ Orders Prosecutors to Drop Charges Against Him","description":"The criminal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams is hanging by a thread after the Justice Department ordered federal prosecutors to drop the charges. ","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/BYd3ajXi/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2025-02-11T18:42:10.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/BYd3ajXi.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/BYd3ajXi/","duration":"PT2M47S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/BYd3ajXi/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```