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Curtis Sliwa: “Eric Adams, who had seven burner phones, was talking to the…”

Featuring: Curtis Sliwa, Conservative | Radio Talk Show Host, Former Candidate, Mayor of New York City

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Published October 16, 2025 | Video Starts at 32:27

Hey, I had a red hat before. And so no one from the White House. The Trump admin has been reaching out to you in order to give you. A time where Eric Adams, who had seven burner phones, was talking to the President on a regular basis. Then he dropped Eric Adams cuz he realized the guy was. He was done one and done. The price was right. He was leaving. Then he's talked with Andrew Cuomo. (32:27–32:33)

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Asserts that Eric Adams had seven burner phones and communicated regularly with the President.

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“The biggest obvious thing that needs cutting is the Department of Education. $41 billion out of 18. 118 billion.”
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“6,000 in public housing. There's 335 projects in the city, about 717,000 units.”
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“28,000 of those [rent stabilized apartments] are empty.”
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“Right now half the people don't pay their bus fare and nobody's doing enforcement.”
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“In this recent bloated $118 billion budget, you know what the city council did with Eric Adams, Adrian Adams and Justin Brannon, who is the…”
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“De Blasio took a billion dollars out of the police budget.”
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“He gave 7 billion of our dollars to people we don't even know. Migrants.”
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“I have the only plan to actually slash the budget, which is $118 billion.”
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“Eric Adams did create an office to combat anti Semitism.”
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“You have a top heavy management of 13 deputy chancellors. Nobody knows what they do. 50 department heads.”
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“That's $10 billion right there. You just cut it.”
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“We are on the cusp of fiscal insolvency because of three things. Eric Adams, who is corrupt, the state, which has a $34 billion gap.”
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“The landlords aren't telling the truth. The reason they are not putting those apartments in the marketplace is because the squatters and…”
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“It was going to cost 8 billion. Now it's 16 billion.”
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“Eric Adams raised the rent. He appointed his nine directors. They voted 5, 4 to raise the rent.”
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“Phil Banks, unindicted co conspirator Timothy Pierson, four sexual harassment suits.”
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“Kathy Hochul has no control of Albany. She is their prisoner.”
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“Eric Adams never did it that way. The de Blasio to a degree, because he had been in city council.”
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“It turned out that many of them were his cronies.”
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“John Katsimatis supported Eric Adams in 2021.”
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“In 2024, because of the crisis in the subways, we had a thousand National Guards, 750 up until Debrina Cuom.”
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“Kathy sent in an additional 250. 50 National Guards people.”
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“New York doesn't need the National Guard under no circumstance.”
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“One little Shmendrick led that office. You gotta be kidding. It was a one person operation.”
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“Bruce Blakeman in Nassau county, the safest county in America.”
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“Cuomo was governor, he called ICE thugs.”
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“Trump came in and Brentwood and Central ICE slip and said, no, all agencies are going to deal with getting rid of MS.13.”
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“ICE led the way [in dealing with MS-13].”
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“ICE was revitalized with the reelection of Donald Trump president.”
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“Tom Homan had [ICE] doing all the right things, going after all the bad outbreaks.”
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“Somebody in Washington imposed a quota [on ICE].”
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“Eric Adams ever put that billion dollars back into the budget? No.”
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“A police officer cannot go into a shelter unless there's a 911 call because Department of Homeless Services says, oh, it'll traumatize the…”
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“Andrew Cuomo destroyed all the third parties, trying to destroy the Working Families Party.”
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“Women are the majority of the voters.”
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“I've raised more money than all three combined locally.”
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“I have headquarters in 10 areas of the city.”
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