For their Friday show, the ladies of ABC’s The View welcomed New York City Mayor and Turkish Airlines super fan Eric Adams to the table to discuss the recent election and Donald Trump.
In the second segment with Adams, Ana Navarro asked, “On the other side of that coin, though, you've got Trump, who says a part of his plan is to send troops into the states and into the cities to conduct these mass deportations. Would you let him come into New York City? What's your scenario? What are your plans if he tries to do that in New York City?”
“Let?” There is no “let.” New York cannot just declare the city off limits to federal law enforcement. As for Adams’s response, he gave a long-winded non-answer:
We have sat down and did scenario plannings on all of these issues, and there are a lot of laws and requirements. What we must do is to be prepared to address the issues as they come in front of us, our team has been there. We looked at all of these issues and all the conversations that are taking place. The operationalizing of the theories that people want to do is different from the actualization of it. Again, people conflate sanctuary cities with the migrant and asylum issue. That's not the same thing. People who are paroled into the country, the sanctuary cities is stating to those who are here for those, you have the right to access the services of the city because that's how we treat people in New York City.
While Adams tried to have it both ways, the cast moved on to his legal issues and questioned if his plea for fellow Democrats to tone down the rhetoric about fascism was just an attempt to appeal to Trump for a pardon.
Earlier, however, Joy Behar was confused by Adams’s claims that Democrats lost touch with normal voters with all their prophesying about Trump being Hitler. She claimed Democrats not only did care for their needs but voters decided to hurt themselves, “But the Democratic Party was addressing most of those issues with the infrastructure bill, for example, and keeping Medicare and Social Security safe. Why would they vote for the party that will hurt them? I didn't get that.”
Adams took the opportunity to promote himself:
Well, you know, part of the business of campaigning is getting your message out and being clear in your message. Even the experts in their party were saying, get back to the message. What are we doing for everyday people in the country? And this is the same thing that happened in 2022. When I got elected in 2022, I stated that, listen, we need to be talking about crime in this country. They've ignored it. We lost the election. During 2023, I said we had to deal with this migrant and asylum seeker issue. It was on the top one or two issues in the country. We ignored it. We have to go back and talk to those issues that people are worried about.
Meanwhile, if Behar doesn’t understand, maybe that’s why The View should pop their liberal bubble.
Here is a transcript for the November 15 show:
ABC The View
11/15/2024
11:20 PM ET
JOY BEHAR: But the Democratic Party was addressing most of those issues with the infrastructure bill, for example, and keeping Medicare and Social Security safe.
SUNNY HOSTIN: And an opportunity economy
BEHAR: Why would they vote for the party that will hurt them? I didn't get that.
ERIC ADAMS: Well, you know, part of the business of campaigning is getting your message out and being clear in your message. Even the experts in their party were saying, get back to the message. What are we doing for everyday people in the country? And this is the same thing that happened in 2022. When I got elected in 2022, I stated that, listen, we need to be talking about crime in this country. They've ignored it. We lost the election.
During 2023, I said we had to deal with this migrant and asylum seeker issue. It was on the top one or two issues in the country. We ignored it. We have to go back and talk to those issues that people are worried about.
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ANA NAVARRO: On the other side of that coin, though, you've got Trump, who says a part of his plan is to send troops into the states and into the cities to conduct these mass deportations. Would you let him come into New York City? What's your scenario? What are your plans if he tries to do that in New York City?
ADAMS: We have sat down and did with scenario plannings on all of these issues, and there are a lot of laws and requirements. What we must do is to be prepared to address the issues as they come in front of us, our team has been there. We looked at all of these issues and all the conversations that are taking place. The operationalizing of the theories that people want to do is different from the actualization of it. Again, people conflate sanctuary cities with the migrant and asylum issue. That's not the same thing. People who are paroled into the country, the sanctuary cities is stating to those who are here for those, you have the right to access the services of the city because that's how we treat people in New York City.
