2023-12-18 23:43:24
Time.news – New York Mayor Eric Adams made a gaffe about the September 11, 2001 attacks, saying that “anything” can happen in the “greatest city in the world,” including a “plane crashes into (World) Trade Center.”
“New York. It’s a place where you wake up every day and experience everything from a plane crashing into the World Trade Center towers to someone celebrating the opening of a new business,” Adams said during a Sunday interview with local television PIX11, which asked him to summarize the year.
“It’s a very, very complicated city and that’s why it’s the best city on the planet,” he added.
The jihadist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States (2,977 deaths in total) brought New York to its knees, after the two towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan were destroyed by two planes piloted by Al-Qaeda. Adams’ distant predecessor, Rudy Giuliani, led New York City at the time and helped revive it.
Eric Adams, in office since January 1, 2022, is a tough former police captain belonging to the right wing of the Democratic Party and the second mayor African American in New York history.
He is facing a series of crises that are undermining his popularity: he is the subject of a civil lawsuit over allegations of sexual assault he suffered when he was a police officer in 1993, and he is involved in an investigation by the federal police, the FBI, on the financing of his election campaign.
Finally, at 63, Eric Adams is at loggerheads with the federal government in Washington over the influx of migrants and asylum seekers in New York over the past 18 months, which he says threatens to “destroy” this world city historically built on successive waves of immigration.
“The weak point (of 2023) is clearly the 150,000 migrants and asylum seekers who represent an obstacle on the city’s road to recovery,” the mayor accused PIX11.
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