Eric Adams compares resignation calls to 'modern-day Mein Kampf'

New York City Mayor Eric Adams wants the public to know he's not going anywhere despite the mounting calls for him to resign — and he said it in such a way that triggered a fresh wave of outrage.

According to the New York Daily News, Adams, while speaking at a re-election campaign event at Rehoboth Cathedral in Brooklyn, told his supporters, “I was listening to some of Dr. King’s teachings, and he talked about the book ‘Mein Kampf.’ He said if you repeat a lie long enough, loud enough people will believe it is true, and that’s what you’re seeing right now. This is a modern-day ‘Mein Kampf.'”

"Mein Kampf" is the antisemitic manifesto of genocidal Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, which he wrote after being imprisoned for his involvement in a failed coup attempt in the 1920s. In the book, Hitler stated that “the great masses” tend to “more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.” Hitler claimed Jews had used this technique to deflect the blame they supposedly had for Germany's loss in World War I, although future historians would argue Hitler himself employed it to spread antisemitic propaganda that ultimately enabled the mass murder of six million European Jews in Nazi death camps.

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Adams' comments prompted instant outrage from multiple Jewish officials.

“As the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in New York City government, I condemn the mayor’s language in the strongest terms,” said city Comptroller Brad Lander.

Former comptroller Scott Stringer agreed, saying, “The mayor of the city with the largest Jewish population should not be comparing the situation that his own unethical conduct put him in to anything to do with Hitler or the Holocaust.”

Both Lander and Stringer are running against Adams in the upcoming Democratic mayoral primary.

Adams was criminally indicted last year on public corruption charges, with federal prosecutors alleging he accepted over $100,000 in luxury travel and gifts from individuals connected to the Turkish government, as he sought to bypass city fire codes for the construction of a Turkish consulate building. Justice Department officials in the Trump administration, however, moved to dismiss the charges, arguing that they were politically motivated and interfering with Adams' ability to cooperate with Trump officials on immigration raids.

The development triggered a wave of resignations from federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York and the mayor's office, as well as sparking widespread suspicion the Trump administration was using the dismissal as leverage to guarantee easy immigration enforcement in the city. Adams has faced widespread calls to resign, and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is also under mounting pressure to use her own powers to remove him from office.