President Trump will meet with Eric Adams on Friday, the White Home confirmed, a gathering that can come hours earlier than the Justice Division (DOJ) is slated to launch paperwork tied to the embattled New York Metropolis mayor’s now-defunct corruption case.
White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated throughout a press briefing Friday that Adams requested an viewers with Trump, and the president agreed to fulfill. She didn’t provide any particulars on what the 2 deliberate to debate.
“If [Trump] wishes to discuss the private meeting afterwards, I will let him do that himself,” Leavitt stated.
Adams posted a video to social media earlier Friday saying he was touring to Washington to fulfill with Trump to debate “how to deliver for New Yorkers.” It appears to be the primary assembly between the president and Adams for the reason that mayor traveled to Florida to fulfill with Trump earlier than the inauguration.
The timing of the assembly aligns with a deadline for the DOJ to publicly disclose paperwork together with search warrants and affidavits tied to the investigation in Adams’s prison case, which the federal government dropped earlier this yr.
The filings are anticipated to offer further readability on the probe about Adams and the proof that bolstered the five-count indictment towards him, which was dismissed by U.S. District Choose Dale Ho after high-ranking DOJ officers stated it was stopping Adams from effectuating Trump’s immigration agenda.
These efforts to drop the case created turmoil within the U.S. legal professional’s workplace for the Southern District of New York, the place a number of federal prosecutors — together with the performing U.S. legal professional overseeing the case — resigned moderately than submit the request.
The paperwork had been initially due final week, however the deadline was prolonged to early Friday night.
Adams was accused of soliciting and accepting bribes from rich overseas enterprise individuals and not less than one Turkish authorities official, beginning as early as 2014 and lasting via his 2021 mayoral marketing campaign and tenure as mayor. He pleaded not responsible.
