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If national Democrats hope to retain their majorities in 2022 and the presidency in 2024, he warned, they should heed his example - and watch as he shows the United States of America how to run a city.Īnd with that, the Adams mayoralty effectively began. On June 24, two days after the primary election he would win by only 7,000 votes, he held a press conference in front of Brooklyn Borough Hall declaring himself the new face of the Democratic Party. “If I can help him in any way, I am there for him.”Īlthough Mayor de Blasio had declared the past several months the “Summer of Bill” as he wore a Hawaiian shirt and rode the roller coaster at Coney Island, it was really the summer of Eric Adams. He told Adams the three big issues facing the city were “crime, crime, and crime.”
“He is a big texter,” he tells me, explaining that he and Adams spoke before he ran. (Adams declined to be interviewed for this story.) Dietl knows Adams from back when the future mayor was a captain in the police force. The next day, Dietl says kicking me out wasn’t his fault Adams told him if there was any press there, he wouldn’t come. He says that he and the assembled are from the “NO RADIO stickers–on–windshields generation” and they aren’t going back and that “I’m going to tell my police officers, ‘I have your back.’ ” He thanks Dietl, describes him as someone who “always had my back,” and tells his donors the reason he won the Democratic primary a few months before is his opponents were too timid: too scared to address the rising crime rate, too afraid to go into the neighborhoods he went into to hear the concerns of New Yorkers, too in thrall to their gatekeepers. When Adams rises to speak, he quotes a familiar line about how we spend so much time pulling people out of the river but never go upstream to stop them from falling in. “We get rid of crime, real estate will go up, people will come back! Eric Adams, he will get it done - don’t listen to any bullshit!” “We need a mayor who is a hero, who will bring us out of this abyss,” Dietl continues, his voice carrying outside. I stand on the boardwalk in front of the restaurant, where I am close enough to see the guests mingle, to see donors exchange business cards with Ingrid Lewis-Martin, Adams’s top aide, and hear Dietl introduce Adams as “someone I have known for a lot of years.” Inside, the crowd looks more like the kind found in a high-roller room in Atlantic City than at a fund-raiser for a Democratic politician: blonde women in cocktail dresses and half-inch-too-high heels, men sporting two-tone collared shirts and thick pinkie rings.ĭespite the personal invitation, when I get there, Dietl starts shaking his head and tells me I need to leave. A longtime acquaintance of Donald Trump’s, he was encouraged to run for mayor back in 2017, first as a Democrat, then as a Republican, and, still unsuccessfully, as an independent, spending much of his time heckling “Big Bird de Blasio.”ĭown at the Seaport, Dietl’s company Jeep with the words BEAU DIETL & ASSOCIATES SECURTY AND INVESTIGATIONS written on the side (he has been hired by Fox News to dig up dirt on the women who accused Roger Ailes of sexual harassment and by Steve Bannon to do the same for an ex-wife who accused him of domestic violence) is parked in front of the restaurant.
Then he made a name for himself as a loud and gruff commentator on Fox News and Don Imus’s radio show, where he once said Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, wanted to build a privacy fence around Gracie Mansion so they could “doobie-doobie-doo,” by which he meant, apparently, smoke marijuana. Unlike Adams, Dietl went into the security-and-private-investigation business. Dietl favors shiny suits and gold watches the size of a baby’s arm, and he was, like Adams, a New York City police officer for two decades. Bo Dietl says on the phone to come by the South Street Seaport at six, where he’ll be hosting a fund-raiser for Eric Adams, the Democratic nominee and all but assured next mayor of New York City.