Mayor Eric Adams has long refrained from criticizing Donald Trump, and, in recent weeks, has even spoken favorably of the incoming administration.

Critics have accused him of angling for a presidential pardon. On Monday, the president-elect was asked point-blank if he’d consider it.

“Yeah, I would,” Trump said at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. “I think that he was treated pretty unfairly. Now, I haven’t seen the gravity of it all, but it seems like being upgraded in an airplane many years ago.”

“I’d have to see it, because I don’t know the facts," he added.

During his weekly question-and-answer session with reporters just two hours later, Adams declined to address the possibility of a pardon, but took the opportunity to reassert his innocence.

“I have an attorney that is going to look at every avenue to ensure I get justice,” he said. “I did nothing wrong. I should not have been charged. And I just think God has a way of showing the irony of life. I’m just saying the same thing that President Biden said. President Biden stated his Justice Department has been politicized.”

In issuing a pardon to his son Hunter earlier this month, Biden said the Justice Department had singled him out for political reasons.

Trump, of course, has long claimed he was politically prosecuted, and has suggested Adams, too, was targeted because he criticized Biden’s border policy.

“He made some pretty strong statements, like 'This is not sustainable,’” Trump said Monday. “I said, ‘You know what? He’ll be indicted soon.’ And I said it not as a prediction — a little bit light-heartedly. But I said it. I said he’s going to be indicted. And a few months later, he got indicted."

"So I would certainly look at” a pardon, he added.

Adams, a Democrat, is accused of accepting illegal campaign contributions and bribes from foreign nationals, including free and discounted flight upgrades and trips, in exchange for favors.

Adams has offered praise of the incoming administration and aligned himself with Trump on immigration, meeting last week with his incoming "border czar" Tom Homan.

He also chatted with Trump ringside at a UFC event at Madison Square Garden last month. But he says they haven’t discussed his case.

“Only thing we talked about is improving the city,” Adams said. "The city that I love, the city that he loves and the city that the New Yorkers love. That’s the only conversations we have — how we improve this city.”

As for reports that allies are trying to land him a role at next month’s inauguration, the mayor said he’s not behind it.

“People have relationships,” he said. "But that did not come from City Hall.”

Adams' trial is currently scheduled to begin on April 21.