Conservative lawyer and Fox News contributor Andrew McCarthy is calling out President Donald Trump, who spent years decrying the Justice Department as “weaponized” against him under his predecessor — only to intervene in the case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

Adams was indicted in September on allegations he accepted bribes and illegal campaign contributions. The mayor has sought to curry favor with Trump in recent months, particularly by working with him on immigration. And on Monday, Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove ordered federal prosecutors to drop the charges against him.

McCarthy called out Bove and Attorney General Pam Bondi in the National Review.

“Bondi, acting through [Bove], is poised to abandon the case against Adams on explicit political grounds — which are hilariously claimed to be part of the new DOJ’s crusade against politicized prosecutorial decision making,” he wrote Tuesday.

The order claims Adams was indicted only after he “criticized the [Biden] Administration’s immigration policies,” suggesting the mayor was targeted for political reasons rather than for alleged crimes, while also maintaining that dismissing the case “in no way calls into question the integrity” of the prosecutors now working on the case.

That entire premise is “ridiculous,” McCarthy wrote.

McCarthy noted Tuesday that if the prosecutors who have “spent years working on the case” cannot “follow the order in good conscience,” they will have to step down — which is precisely what happened Thursday, when U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon handed in her resignation letter.

Sassoon frankly condemned the Justice Department’s move to drop the case after Adams claimed it was partisan: “Rather than be rewarded, Adams’ advocacy should be called out for what it is: an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for a dismissal of his case.”

“President Trump decided it was in his interest to do a political favor for Mayor Adams,” McCarthy wrote in a follow-up Review article Thursday. “His subordinates tried to cloak this raw political gesture in legally palatable terms. But the rationale offered was incoherent. Now that it has predictably blown up, they blame the people who wouldn’t play along.”

In a letter accepting her resignation, Bove rebuked Sassoon for supposedly losing “sight of the oath that you took,” and warned her that the DOJ will investigate her conduct.

The five-count indictment against Adams includes charges of conspiracy, wire fraud and bribery. Like many others looking on, McCarthy has been stunned that the same administration that had decried the “weaponization” of the Justice Department is now, in his view, doing just that.

“Politicized law enforcement is always wrong,” McCarthy wrote Tuesday prior to Sassoon’s exit. “That is the lesson of the Trump Justice Department’s dropping of the corruption case against New York City’s Democratic mayor.”