New York Democratic Mayor Eric Adams will be attending the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump after receiving a last-minute invitation from his team. I guarantee you this is a reward for Adams being willing to play ball and back Trump’s mass deportation operation in the city. If you help make America a better, safer country, if you set aside petty differences in ideology in order to do what’s best for the citizens of this nation, then you will reap what you sow. And in Adams’ case, that means a close working relationship with the incoming president.
Originally, according to the Daily Wire, Adams was scheduled to attend two events in NYC in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., but his team released an announcement that his schedule underwent a huge change early on Monday morning, which brought several weeks of speculation about whether the mayor would attend the inauguration.
“In the early hours of Monday morning, the Trump administration reached out inviting Mayor Adams to attend the inauguration at the incoming administration’s request. Mayor Adams accepted on behalf of New York City,” Fabien Levy, a spokesman for the mayor, stated in a post on X Monday morning.
“As the mayor has repeatedly said, America has chosen a new national leader and we must work together to build a safer, stronger, and more affordable in New York City,” Levy said.
Adams’ attendance comes just three days after the mayor traveled to Florida to meet with Trump at his golf club in West Palm Beach. The embattled mayor is facing federal corruption charges and is set to go to trial in April. He has pled not guilty in a five-count indictment that accuses him of accepting luxury travel gifts for years in exchange for several things, including getting the fire department to approve a new Turkish consulate in Manhattan despite safety concerns. Trump said last month that he would consider pardoning Adams.
“I think that he was treated pretty unfairly,” Trump said, however, he followed that up by saying that he does not “know the facts.” Adams revealed that the two men did not talk about his current legal battles during their lunch meeting.
Adams has suggested that the federal charges were brought down on him in retaliation for his harsh criticism of the Biden administration in the thick of New York’s migrant crisis, which he said would “destroy” the city.
“The president and the White House have failed this city,” Adams went on to say back in 2023 as tens of thousands of illegal migrants flocked into New York City, most of them immediately filing for welfare and other local government benefits in order to provide them with food and shelter.
“Trump will be sworn in around noon on Monday. He is expected to sign a flurry of executive orders afterward on issues from immigration to gender ideology as his first official moves as president,” the report concluded.
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