Facebook<\/a> post, Adams wrote, \u201cpublic safety is not a political game\u201d and called it \u201ccynical and irresponsible\u201d to \u201clabel someone a narco-dictator one year and then pretend he is no longer a threat the next simply because a different president is in office.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Biden administration offered a reward of up to $25 million last January for information leading to Maduro\u2019s arrest on U.S. narcotics charges, portraying him as a major threat tied to cocaine flows toward the United States.<\/p>\n
That reward was raised to $50 million by current U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and the State and Justice Departments, this past August. <\/p>\n
Referencing a tragic incident closer to home, Adams said, \u201cImagine being the parents of 2-year-old Nicholas Feliz Dominici, who died from fentanyl poisoning in a Bronx daycare, watching this political theater.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adams argued that \u201cMaduro\u2019s drugs have killed thousands of Americans\u201d and added that \u201cAmerica is safer today because Maduro is no longer in power,\u201d welcoming the Venezuelan leader to the city where he will now face federal prosecution.<\/p>\n
Throughout his tenure, Adams maintained a working relationship with the Trump administration, focusing on areas including immigration enforcement for alleged criminal migrants and infrastructure, while facing criticism from fellow Democrats for aligning himself with Trump. <\/p>\n
Adams would go on to switch his party affiliation to independent while running for reelection in the NYC mayoral race, before ending his bid in late September. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams took to social media Sunday to blast the Biden administration for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-90200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}