Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption case should be tossed for good — without the Trump administration being able to hold it over his head — to remove any political “taint,”  the lawyer who reviewed the federal case recommended Friday.

The Republican lawyer, Paul Clement, wrote in a 33-page filing that Hizzoner’s case should be dismissed with prejudice — formally killing the prosecution — to swat down the idea that Adams is beholden to President Trump under the threat of his case being resurrected. 

“Even the appearance that the prospect of re-indictment would cause public officials to be more attendant to the executive branch than to constituents is deeply troubling and raises serious accountability concerns,” he wrote.

Clement, a conservative lawyer who served as Former US Solicitor General under President George W. Bush, was tapped by Manhattan federal court Judge Dale Ho last month to argue against the DOJ dismissal motion, which asked to keep the door open later for prosecution.

The DOJ has not yet responded to Clement’s filing.  

Adams was indicted in September for allegedly accepting luxury travel from Turkish nationals in exchange for political favor.

He has repeatedly denied all wrongdoing.

The controversial motion pushed by Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove led to a political firestorm for Adams, sparking a series of calls for him to resign or to be removed by Gov. Kathy Hochul from critics who accused the mayor of being in Trump’s pocket.

The order from Bove, who was Trump’s criminal defense attorney, caused chaos inside Adams’ orbit as his reelection campaign got put on pause — creating an opening for former governor Andrew Cuomo and Council Speaker Adrienne Adams to run for mayor and cut into his support.

It also sparked an exodus of prosecutors who worked on the case in DC as well as the Southern District of New York, including Interim SDNY head Danielle Sassoon.

The dissenting feds accused Adams and Trump’s camp of engaging in a corrupt “quid pro quo”  in which the mayor conditioned his support for the president’s immigration agenda on his case going away.

For his part, Adams denied under oath during a House Oversight hearing that he made any deal with Trump or his administration.

Clement argued that there was no reason for the case to be dismissed without prejudice — meaning it could be revived at any time — writing that the government had said the case was being brought in “bad faith.”

“If political considerations improperly influenced the initial decision to seek the defendant’s indictment, then dismissal with prejudice would definitively eliminate that taint,” he wrote.

“All roads here … lead to dismissal with prejudice,” Clement wrote.

The Manhattan federal judge has the power to change how to dismiss the case, deciding whether to toss it with or without prejudice, but had limited other options, according to Clement.

Clement said the judge could not appoint a special prosecutor and any attempt to force the DOJ to prosecute the case against their will would be “futile.”

The mayor’s legal team had argued the case should be tossed for good after the correspondence between Sassoon and Bove leaked out to the press, saying there was no way now for the mayor to get a fair trial.

Sources close to the mayor had been baffled over the botching of the dismissal motion by Bove, which they believe would have been rubber-stamped by the judge had it been tossed for good.