NYC Mayor Eric Adams pledges to 'reign' not resign in pair of church appearances

New York City Mayor Eric Adams spent Sunday praising God and pledging not to resign.

Rather, the Democratic mayor, nether national indictment for allegedly

Adams spoke to the congregation of the Emmanuel Presbyterian Reformed Church successful The Bronx for astir 30 minutes, and refused to reply reporter's questions afterward, the Post reports. 

"God placed maine successful this infinitesimal and placed successful my bosom to proceed to determination this metropolis forward," Adams said connected Sunday. "And truthful you’ll perceive the tiny fig of large radical saying, ‘But helium should measurement down.’ No, I’m going to measurement up. I’m not going to resign. I’m not going to resign. I’m going to reign."

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams sits successful national tribunal beside his lawyer, Alex Spiro, during his arraignment aft helium was charged with bribery and illegally soliciting a run publication from a overseas national, successful New York City, connected Sept. 27, 2024, successful this courtroom sketch.  (REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg)

The Post besides states that connected Monday morning, Adams' ineligible squad filed a question to disregard the bribery complaint from the national indictment. The complaint accuses Adams of accepting luxury question bribes successful 2021 and 2022 successful speech for the New York City Fire Department to let the 36-story Turkevi Center, besides known arsenic the Turkish House, to spell done contempt occurrence information concerns.

According to the indictment, national investigators were looking into whether Adams' 2021 and 2025 mayoral campaigns conspired with Turkish officials, concern leaders and different entities to illegally rise funds. Court documents allege wrongdoing arsenic acold backmost arsenic 2016.

"Despite the information that the indictment reproduces quotes from messages, emails, and conversations for galore different points, it does not allege immoderate circumstantial exchanges oregon conversations successful which Adams and the Turkish authoritative entered into this purported quid pro quo agreement," his ineligible squad wrote, according to the Post. 

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A presumption of Turkevi Center, wherever Turkey's Permanent Representation to the United Nations (UN) and the New York Consulate General is located, is seen among different skyscrapers up of its opening aft its operation comes to an extremity successful New York City connected Aug. 18, 2021. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Adams allegedly defrauded taxpayers for $10 cardinal implicit the past decennary and often took escaped oregon steeply discounted vacations bankrolled by his overseas benefactors.

Adams released a video connection saying immoderate charges filed against him would beryllium "entirely false, based connected lies," and helium insinuated that his disapproval of the Biden administration's disastrous borderline policies made him a people for retaliation.

"The national authorities did thing arsenic its breached migration policies overloaded our structure strategy with nary relief," helium said successful a video statement. "I enactment the radical of New York earlier enactment and politics."

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams and lawyer Alex Spiro talk to the media portion departing national tribunal pursuing Adams' arraignment successful Lower Manhattan connected Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. Adams faces 5 national charges, including alleged conspiracy, ligament fraud, 2 counts of solicitation of a publication by a overseas nationalist and bribery. (Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)

Investigators denied the assertion that the lawsuit was governmental retaliation during a quality briefing Thursday.

Adams is owed backmost successful tribunal connected Wednesday for a league earlier U.S. District Judge Dale E. Ho, who the TV presumption says volition preside implicit the lawsuit going forward, according to FOX 5 New York. 

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He could look up to 45 years successful situation if convicted of each charges, which see 1 number of conspiracy to person run contributions from overseas nationals and to commit ligament fraud and bribery, 1 number of ligament fraud, 2 counts of soliciting run contributions from overseas nationals and 1 number of soliciting and accepting a bribe. 

FOX News' Joseph A. Wulfson, Michael Ruiz and Maria Paronich contributed to this report.