Mayor Adams has spoken with President-elect Trump to address ‘issues in the city’

Mayor Adams spoke to President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday astir moving unneurotic to code “issues successful the city,” saying lone that the taxable was infrastructure. The politician did not spell into specifics oregon accidental whether they discussed the imaginable of wide deportations oregon Adams’ pending transgression case.

“I communicated with the President yesterday to authorities that determination are galore issues present successful the metropolis that we privation to enactment unneurotic with the medication to address,” the politician said astatine an unrelated press league Thursday. 

Adams besides said he’s assured he’ll beryllium capable to find “common ground” with Trump on nationalist safety. During his run for the White House, Trump highlighted transgression successful cities specified arsenic New York successful criticizing Democrats attack to safety.

“I look guardant to coordinating with immoderate and everyone to support this large metropolis safe,” Adams said.

The politician declined to accidental if the brace spoke astir the incoming president’s menace of wide deportations oregon if helium had personally congratulated Trump connected his victory. He did not reply a question astir whether Trump’s aboriginal U.S. lawyer wide mightiness assistance him with his national corruption case.

“I’m not going to spell into backstage conversations,” the politician said.

The politician besides said helium has yet to “make a last determination” astir removing fluoride, a mineral that helps fortify teeth and reduces cavities, from the h2o supply.

Former candidate Robert F. Kennedy, who is connected Trump’s modulation team, precocious said helium would counsel systems crossed the state to region the mineral from the h2o supply.

In the lead-up to the election, the politician sidestepped questions astir Trump’s supportive words and drew choler from Democrats for saying it was inappropriate to telephone the former president a fascist. Trump has doubly expressed sympathies for the mayor. Last month, Trump told Adams astatine the Al Smith meal that they both had been targeted by Biden’s Justice Department.

“We were persecuted, Eric,” Trump said astatine the event. “I was persecuted, and truthful are you, Eric.”

The politician is set to spell connected proceedings successful April for charges helium carried retired governmental favors successful speech for amerciable straw donations and question perks. The politician has pleaded not blameworthy to the allegations. Federal prosecutors with the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office, who brought the case, person said they whitethorn bring a superseding indictment against Adams.

Adams antecedently said helium planned to pass with Trump’s administration astir “the interaction of migrants and asylum seekers” astatine a Wednesday property league connected the interaction of the statesmanlike election.

He past pledged to enactment with the incoming Trump medication connected migration issues and hoped to make “a realistic and compassionate” strategy connected the national level.

Manuel Castro, Adams’ migrant affairs commissioner, said Wednesday the mayor’s squad volition speech to the Trump medication to “hopefully alteration their minds” astir initiatives similar wide deportations.