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demmiblue

(38,248 posts)
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 08:46 AM 20 hrs ago

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

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




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Mayor Adams rips Maryland Sen. Van Hollen over 'tequila drink' with 'gang member' (Original Post) demmiblue 20 hrs ago OP
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 Walleye 20 hrs ago #1
I'm a NYC'r. Don't like him either. Buh-byeee in Nov! electric_blue68 16 hrs ago #21
Apparently he missed van Hollen's comments on the malaise 20 hrs ago #2
Yeah. It's considered a fact by many and a way to placate Trump by saying it. underpants 20 hrs ago #4
Picture before the staging Nevilledog 18 hrs ago #13
It was a setup. The continuity of the salt around the rims shows that the glasses had not been sipped. John1956PA 20 hrs ago #3
My eyes Rebl2 18 hrs ago #14
Margaritagate zoom-in John1956PA 17 hrs ago #18
Adam's is a day late and a dollar short unless.. Omnipresent 20 hrs ago #5
Kiss your re-election goodbye. no_hypocrisy 20 hrs ago #6
He's fallen under the trmp spell. Quid pro quo. spanone 20 hrs ago #7
We know kacekwl 19 hrs ago #8
You could have had Maya Wiley New York. Nanjeanne 19 hrs ago #9
Don't remind me Sigh. electric_blue68 16 hrs ago #22
trump pimps, having to back off from "margaritas" to "tequila drink." Paladin 19 hrs ago #10
It was no margarita. They stuck a cherry on a glass of water. Ritabert 19 hrs ago #11
Eric Adams has New Yorkers clamoring for comradebillyboy 18 hrs ago #12
Adams is a total ass. I never knew why NY'ers picked this jerk. lark 18 hrs ago #15
From this guy?? Passages 17 hrs ago #16
Adams is as crooked as a dogs hind leg. ArnoldLayne 17 hrs ago #17
Less vile than meeting with the convicted felon and kissing his orange ass. republianmushroom 16 hrs ago #19
His KRASNOV deal was for all of him. UTUSN 16 hrs ago #20

Walleye

(39,752 posts)
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
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 08:48 AM
20 hrs ago

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

underpants

(190,043 posts)
4. Yeah. It's considered a fact by many and a way to placate Trump by saying it.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 08:58 AM
20 hrs ago

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

John1956PA

(3,965 posts)
3. It was a setup. The continuity of the salt around the rims shows that the glasses had not been sipped.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 08:52 AM
20 hrs ago

Paladin

(30,211 posts)
10. trump pimps, having to back off from "margaritas" to "tequila drink."
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 09:35 AM
19 hrs ago

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

(1,018 posts)
11. It was no margarita. They stuck a cherry on a glass of water.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 09:47 AM
19 hrs ago

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

comradebillyboy

(10,649 posts)
12. Eric Adams has New Yorkers clamoring for
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 10:25 AM
18 hrs ago

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

republianmushroom

(19,546 posts)
19. Less vile than meeting with the convicted felon and kissing his orange ass.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 12:15 PM
16 hrs ago

As you have done Adams. IMO

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