President Donald Trump said Friday that he wasn’t involved in the resignation of Department of Justice prosecutors involved in the federal case against Democrat New York Mayor Eric Adams, and suggested they would have been dismissed anyway in the coming days.

Six senior Department of Justice officials, including Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, resigned Thursday rather than comply with a directive from acting Deputy Attorney General Eric Bove’s order to dismiss the case. A seventh prosecutor with the case resigned Friday. The DOJ then formally asked a New York court to dismiss the charges against Eric Adams.

“I don’t know about it,” Trump said at the Oval Office, according to The Hill. “Obviously, I’m not involved in that, but I would say this. If they had a problem — and these are mostly people from the previous administration, you understand. So, they weren’t going to be there anyway. They were all going to be gone or dismissed … because what you do is you come in, and you put new people in.”

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