Of course it is not true. He was shocked and surprised that there's a $12 billion budget. Mayor Adams lied. Everybody lied. Yeah, it turns out he's the liar. Mayor Adams was quite open about what the deficit was. Had nothing to do with me. No, he just makes it up. And then the next week he said I was wrong. It's actually not that, you know, they just make it up. (00:29–00:35)
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Asserts that Mayor Adams was transparent about the budget deficit.
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