Mayor Adams rips Maryland Sen. Van Hollen over 'tequila drink' with 'gang member'

[demmiblue]

Mayor Eric Adams took an apparent swipe Tuesday at a Maryland senator who met with a man mistakenly deported to El Salvador – saying at a press conference that he would not sip a “tequila drink” with a gang member.

“It’s time for all of us to ask the question, particularly those who are in government who find it more convenient to have a tequila drink with someone who’s a gang member: Which side are you on?” Adams said.

The statement was an apparent reference to Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, who traveled to El Salvador last week to meet with a constituent who was mistakenly deported to the country. When Van Hollen met with the man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, he was photographed at a table with drinks he said were placed there by Salvadorian officials in what he called a setup.

Abrego Garcia has never been charged or convicted of any crime, including gang activity, a federal judge wrote in an opinion earlier this month.

https://gothamist.com/news/mayor-adams-rips-maryland-sen-van-hollen-over-tequila-drink-with-gang-member

[Walleye]

1. I never liked this guy. I don't live in New York anymore, but if I did, I never would've voted for him strikes me as

Being a sexist. Now he is happily repeating Russian propaganda.

[electric_blue68]

21. I'm a NYC'r. Don't like him either. Buh-byeee in Nov!

[malaise]

2. Apparently he missed van Hollen's comments on the

meeting and the fake drinks

[underpants]

4. Yeah. It's considered a fact by many and a way to placate Trump by saying it.

When he and Abrego Garcia first sat down for a meeting at the hotel where Van Hollen had been staying, the senator said, they “just had glasses of water on the table, maybe some coffee.”

Subsequently, Van Hollen said, “one of the government people” on the sidelines of their half-hour meeting deposited other beverages on the table, with salt or sugar around the top — “but they look like margaritas.”

https://apnews.com/article/margaritagate-bukele-van-hollen-abrego-garcia-e346ea5bcca8b4bc7ead1b12f304d3d2

[Nevilledog]

13. Picture before the staging

[John1956PA]

3. It was a setup. The continuity of the salt around the rims shows that the glasses had not been sipped.

[Rebl2]

14. My eyes

are bad I guess. I don’t see salt on the rims of these glasses..

[John1956PA]

18. Margaritagate zoom-in

[Omnipresent]

5. Adam's is a day late and a dollar short unless..

He takes a bribe from a gang member!

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Kiss your re-election goodbye.

TSF told you to say that, huh?

[spanone]

7. He's fallen under the trmp spell. Quid pro quo.

Fuck adams.

[kacekwl]

8. We know

which side you're on Adams.

[Nanjeanne]

9. You could have had Maya Wiley New York.

[electric_blue68]

22. Don't remind me Sigh.

She was my choice

[Paladin]

10. trump pimps, having to back off from "margaritas" to "tequila drink."

Because so many people know the difference between what a margarita looks like, versus glasses of clear tap water.

And even by trump standards, Eric Adams is pathetic. Looking forward to his political career being over.

[Ritabert]

11. It was no margarita. They stuck a cherry on a glass of water.

Hey New York City there must be a better candidate than Adams.

[comradebillyboy]

12. Eric Adams has New Yorkers clamoring for

Andrew Cuomo. Who would have thought Adams' incompetence and corruption would lay the groundwork for Andrew Cuomo's political comeback?

[lark]

15. Adams is a total ass. I never knew why NY'ers picked this jerk.

Ugh!!

[Passages]

16. From this guy??

Must be kidding.


Thank you, Senator Van Hollen.

[ArnoldLayne]

17. Adams is as crooked as a dogs hind leg.

[republianmushroom]

19. Less vile than meeting with the convicted felon and kissing his orange ass.

As you have done Adams. IMO

[UTUSN]

20. His KRASNOV deal was for all of him.