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Adams pledges to work with Trump on public safety, infrastructure
The mayor, a Democrat, said he can find common ground with “anyone and everyone.”
New York Mayor Eric Adams exits Gracie Mansion.
Mayor Eric Adams did not answer a question about whether he spoke with Donald Trump about immigration and the president-elect's pledge to implement mass deportations. | Stephanie Keith/Getty Images
By Maya Kaufman and Joe Anuta
11/07/2024 02:22 PM EST
NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams spoke Wednesday with President-elect Donald Trump about working together on infrastructure, public safety and other issues affecting New York City, he told reporters during an unrelated press conference Thursday.
“I communicated with the president yesterday to state that there are many issues here in the city that we want to work together with the administration to address,” Adams said. “The city must move forward and that is what our call is to do.”
Asked whether he and Trump share common ground on the issue of public safety, Adams said he can find common ground with “anyone and everyone.”
“All of us want to be safe and that is something that we push for,” he said, adding his slogan about New York City being the “safest big city in America.”
Adams, a Democrat, did not answer a follow-up question about whether he spoke with Trump about immigration and the president-elect’s pledge to implement mass deportations. He also declined to say whether he had specifically congratulated Trump or had broached the topic of Trump’s appointee to the U.S. attorney general post in light of the federal criminal indictment Adams is facing.
And he punted a question about removing fluoride from the water supply to experts in the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, saying he would make a final determination on how to move forward based on their advice.
Former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom Trump has said would work on health issues as part of the incoming administration, said this past weekend in a post on X that he would “advise all U.S. water systems to remove fluoride from public water.”
The mayor’s overture to Trump came after he steadfastly refused to criticize the Republican during the campaign — a move that infuriated fellow Democrats but likely endeared himself to the president elect.
Trump has returned the favor, casting a criminal corruption case against the mayor as politically motivated.
“I just want to be nice because I know what it’s like to be persecuted by the DOJ for speaking out against open borders,” Trump said at a dinner several weeks before the election. “We were persecuted, Eric. I was persecuted, and so were you.”
Adams pledges to work with Trump on public safety, infrastructure
The mayor, a Democrat, said he can find common ground with “anyone and everyone.”
New York Mayor Eric Adams exits Gracie Mansion.
Mayor Eric Adams did not answer a question about whether he spoke with Donald Trump about immigration and the president-elect's pledge to implement mass deportations. | Stephanie Keith/Getty Images
By Maya Kaufman and Joe Anuta
11/07/2024 02:22 PM EST
NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams spoke Wednesday with President-elect Donald Trump about working together on infrastructure, public safety and other issues affecting New York City, he told reporters during an unrelated press conference Thursday.
“I communicated with the president yesterday to state that there are many issues here in the city that we want to work together with the administration to address,” Adams said. “The city must move forward and that is what our call is to do.”
Asked whether he and Trump share common ground on the issue of public safety, Adams said he can find common ground with “anyone and everyone.”
“All of us want to be safe and that is something that we push for,” he said, adding his slogan about New York City being the “safest big city in America.”
Adams, a Democrat, did not answer a follow-up question about whether he spoke with Trump about immigration and the president-elect’s pledge to implement mass deportations. He also declined to say whether he had specifically congratulated Trump or had broached the topic of Trump’s appointee to the U.S. attorney general post in light of the federal criminal indictment Adams is facing.
And he punted a question about removing fluoride from the water supply to experts in the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, saying he would make a final determination on how to move forward based on their advice.
Former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom Trump has said would work on health issues as part of the incoming administration, said this past weekend in a post on X that he would “advise all U.S. water systems to remove fluoride from public water.”
The mayor’s overture to Trump came after he steadfastly refused to criticize the Republican during the campaign — a move that infuriated fellow Democrats but likely endeared himself to the president elect.
Trump has returned the favor, casting a criminal corruption case against the mayor as politically motivated.
“I just want to be nice because I know what it’s like to be persecuted by the DOJ for speaking out against open borders,” Trump said at a dinner several weeks before the election. “We were persecuted, Eric. I was persecuted, and so were you.”
