Eric Adams walks back comments on Trump shooter

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday blamed bad information he received on the shooter who attempted to kill former President Donald Trump, which led the New York Democrat to previously link the would-be assassin to social media.

Adams last week said the shooter was obsessed with social media and the shooting was motivated by politics. But federal investigators have since said the shooter didn't have much of a social media presence, and they couldn't find evidence of the act being politically motivated.

In light of that information, the mayor walked back his previous assessment during Tuesday’s press briefing.

"I stand corrected, it was a post that was sent,” he said, noting he wasn’t sure of the false information’s origin. “It could've been AI, it could've been altered. Just goes to show how we all can fall victim to some of the distorted information out there."

Despite that admission, the mayor continued to insist that the shooter was pushed to the act by some radicalizing force.

"I do know I've been extremely vociferous around the radicalization of our young people,” he said. “Something plays into a person climbing on a rooftop with an automatic weapon and shooting someone.”