NY Mayor Eric Adams affirms that the city jail is “prepared” to receive Trump

The mayor of New York, Democrat Eric Adams, did not hide his animosity with the former president and stated that the Rikers Island prison is “prepared” to receive Donald Trump if the former US president is sentenced to prison for violating the ‘order’. gag’ that he faces in his criminal trial in Manhattan.

According to warnings in the trial, Trump could face temporary imprisonment before any conviction, whether he violates a gag order again in his trial in New York on 34 charges related to hush payments made as a form of election interference.

Adams also referred to his “incredible commissioner” at the New York Department of Corrections, Lynelle Maginley-Liddie, and her team, whom he said will be “ready” if the time comes.

“They will be prepared to deal with the situation as is already happening with Harvey Weinstein (transferred to Rikers in the last few hours). When it comes to applying the law, We have to adapt to what comes. We don’t want to talk about hypotheses, but we have professionals there and they are prepared to receive everyone,” Adams said in a press conference after being asked about the alleged case of the former president being sent to prison.

From film producer Harvey Weinstein to rapper Tupac Shakur and former IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn passed through Rikers Island. Also, the scammer Anna Sorokin and even the murderer of John Lennon. For those who know her, it is true hell.

Within the framework of the criminal trial against Trump in New York, in which he is accused of falsifying accounting records to buy the silence of the porn actress Stormy Daniels – with whom he would have had an ‘affair’ – and thus protect his campaign from 2016, Judge Juan Merchan has fined the politician twice for violating the ‘gag order’ and has warned him about the possibility of imprisoning him.

The judge in charge sanctioned him again this Monday with $1,000 for contempt, since the former president has continued to publicly accuse those involved in the process opened in New York, despite being prohibited from doing so.

“The last thing I want is to put him in jail. You are the former president of the United States and possibly the next president as well.but I have a job to do and part of that job is to protect the dignity of the judicial system,” Merchan told him.

In fact, the judge already fined Trump $9,000 last week, considering punishable several public statements on his social network, Truth Social, and on his campaign website, in which he attacked some of the witnesses.

If he goes to prison, he would become the first former president behind bars, as he is already the first criminally accused.facing 88 criminal charges for various legal proceedings opened in courts in various cities and for different crimes.

“This judge has put a gag order on me and said that I will go to jail if I violate it, but our Constitution is much more important than jail. “I will make that sacrifice,” Trump said after leaving court on Monday.

Besides, Adams’ comment about Weinstein is due to the fact that the former film producer is currently in Rikers Island prison after previously being in a prison in upstate New York.and after having spent time in a prison hospital unit in this same city.

Weinstein remains awaiting a retrial in New York after an appeals court overturned his historic 2020 conviction for sex crimes that sparked the #MeToo movement.

*With information from EFE.

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