Mayor Eric Adams made a last-minute journey to Washington, DC Wednesday evening to attend a prayer breakfast the place President Trump will ship remarks the next morning.
Adams is scheduled to attend the Nationwide Prayer Breakfast — an annual occasion the place the president, Congress members and different leaders break bread within the nation’s capital — Thursday morning and left the town Wednesday evening, based on Metropolis Corridor.
His go to marks the third time in current weeks that Adams, who’s dealing with corruption prices, and Trump will likely be in the identical room because the Democrat’s authorized workforce lobbies to clinch a presidential pardon or have the case dropped.
Late final month, Hizzoner skipped Martin Luther King Jr. Day occasions within the metropolis to as a substitute make an eleventh-hour journey to attend Trump’s inauguration. He additionally traveled to Florida to fulfill with the Republican at Mar-a-Lago days earlier than he was sworn into workplace.
Adams has been cautious to not criticize Trump, together with over tariffs the president ordered on Canada and Mexico earlier than a short lived pause was enacted this week. Trump had admitted his tariffs would possibly trigger “some ache” for Individuals, however claimed it’d “all be well worth the worth.”
A Metropolis Corridor spokesperson downplayed Adams’ scheduled attendance on the prayer breakfast, noting it’s a bipartisan occasion that a number of presidents, together with former President Barack Obama, have spoken at.
In response to the occasion organizers, each president “no matter occasion or non secular persuasion” has joined the breakfast because it was began in 1953.
Thursday, nonetheless, would be the first time Adams attends the Nationwide Prayer Breakfast, based on a overview of his previous schedules.
It was not clear who invited Adams to the annual occasion, which merges faith and politics, and if Trump’s workforce had a job in getting the mayor again to DC.
Trump’s Division of Justice has opened talks between Adams’ authorized workforce and Manhattan federal prosecutors because the under-fire mayor seeks to have the corruption prices dropped in an election yr, a supply confirmed to The Put up final week.
Even when the DOJ moved to get the case tossed, a choose would nonetheless must approve the request.
Trump had beforehand mentioned, whereas on the marketing campaign path, that he would contemplate pardoning Adams, who has denied all wrongdoing.
Hizzoner has been accused of taking bribes — together with $123,000 in free flights and different ritzy perks — from overseas nationals in trade for favors, based on a federal indictment.
His corruption trial is pegged for April.
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