Eric Adams Visits Mar-A-Lago After Trump Hinted At Pardon

New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams holds a press convention after assembly with Tom Homan, Donald Trump’s incoming ‘border czar,’ on the Metropolis Corridor in New York Metropolis on December 12, 2024. | Supply: Anadolu / Getty

New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams was set to satisfy with Donald Trump in Florida, with many claiming he’s after a federal pardon.

A spokesperson for embattled New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams confirmed that he can be assembly with President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida on Thursday night (January 16). “Mayor Adams has made fairly clear his willingness to work with President-elect Trump and his incoming administration on behalf of New Yorkers — and that partnership with the federal authorities is essential to New York Metropolis’s success,” Metropolis Corridor spokesman Fabian Levy mentioned in an electronic mail. “The mayor seems to be ahead to having a productive dialog with the incoming president on how we will transfer our metropolis and nation ahead.”

The Democratic mayor’s assembly with Trump wasn’t on his public schedule for Friday (January 17) till early morning. The assembly is ready for 1 P.M., the place Adams mentioned that the 2 will talk about “New Yorkers’ priorities”. The town will probably be funding the journey in response to Metropolis Corridor. Adams is the most recent Democratic politician to satisfy with the president-elect; Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman lately visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

Adams’ go to comes months earlier than he’s to face trial after being indicted on federal fees of wire fraud, bribery, and accepting unlawful marketing campaign contributions from international nationals. Adams was accused of pressuring the New York Metropolis Hearth Division to approve a brand new high-rise constructing for the Turkish Consulate regardless of distinguished questions of safety with the development. He additionally allegedly accepted over $100,000 in luxurious journey, together with resort lodging from Turkey and different nations. Trump has been publicly sympathetic to Adams, even hinting that he might pardon him after starting his second time period within the White Home. Adams has additionally said that he was eager about attending the inauguration subsequent Monday in Washington, D.C.

The go to has drawn quite a few critics, who see it as one other brazen ploy to acquire a federal pardon. “Eric Adams ought to state instantly that he is not going to search or settle for a pardon from Donald Trump,” Brad Lander, the New York Metropolis comptroller, mentioned to the New York Occasions. “New Yorkers need to know that their mayor is placing their pursuits forward of his personal.” Others akin to Rolling Stone contributor Noah Shachtman took a extra sarcastic tone. “It’s such a aid to know that the mayor is spending each waking second looking for the individuals of New York,” he wrote in a put up on BlueSky.