Eric Adams is making a last-minute trip to Washington, D.C., to attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, after being invited after midnight, the New York City mayor announced Monday morning. Adams didn't start the drive down until after 3 a.m., according to his communications deputy Fabien Levy.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who had planned to attend Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebrations in Brooklyn and Manhattan, made a last-minute change to his schedule to travel to Washington for Donald Trump’s inauguration.
The New York City mayor canceled plans to honor Dr. Martin Luther King to attend the inauguration of Donald J. Trump, who has said he is considering pardoning Mr. Adams in his federal corruption case.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams met with President-elect Donald Trump over lunch at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach on Friday afternoon.
The trip comes as Adams stares down federal corruption charges and just days before the president-elect’s inauguration.
The New York City mayor, who is under federal indictment, has spoken warmly about President-elect Donald J. Trump in recent weeks and has said he is open to receiving a pardon from him.
"Mayor Adams will sit down with President-elect Trump and discuss New Yorkers’ priorities," the mayor's office said in a statement to FOX 5 NY.
NEW YORK -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams is meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago home Friday in Florida, days before the inauguration. Adams' team says he and the president-elect will be discussing "New York priorities," but the mayor's opponents within his party claim he has an ulterior motive: a pardon for himself.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams will be meeting with President-elect Donald Trump on Friday, a spokesperson for the mayor has confirmed. Adams is traveling to Palm Beach, Florida, to discuss the New Yorker’s priorities.
City Mayor Eric Adams on Saturday doubled down on defending his meeting with soon-to-be president Donald Trump, claiming he was “fighting for” New Yorkers, as fellow Democrats accused him of cozying up to Trump in efforts to get a presidential pardon for his federal corruption case.
NEW YORK − New York City's indicted mayor, Eric Adams, is going to meet with President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago private club in Florida on Friday, an Adams spokesperson confirmed Thursday evening.