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Rikers Would Be Ready For Trump, NYC Mayor Eric Adams Says
Asked whether Rikers Island would be prepared to handle Donald Trump, NYC Mayor Eric Adams said the city's corrections officials "will be ready."
In a surprising moment during a regularly scheduled press briefing about public safety statistics, the Columbia University protests, migrant centers, the proliferation of illegal weed shops and Mayor Eric Adams ‘ upcoming trip to meet the Pope in Rome, a curveball question pressed Adams on the possible, if unlikely, jailing of former President Donald Trump. Trump is on trial in Manhattan on 34 counts of falsifying business records, stemming from hush money allegedly paid to porn actor Stormy Daniels. “But at the end of the day, I have a job to do.” He told Trump that his “continued, willful violations” of the gag order “constitute a direct attack on the rule of law.
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