Rikers would be ready for Trump, says NYC Mayor Eric Adams

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In a surprising moment, during a regular press briefing on public safety statistics, protests at Columbia University, migrant centers, the proliferation of illegal weed stores and Mayor Eric Adams’ upcoming trip to meet the pope in Rome, Adams was pressed by a curveball question about the possible, even improbable, imprisonment of former President Donald Trump.

When asked if New York’s Rikers Island complex would be prepared to handle Trump’s imprisonment, or if the city had plans in place for such a situation, Adams said that city prison officials ” would be ready.

“Our amazing (Lynelle Maginley-Liddie, commissioner of the Department of Corrections), she’s ready to take on whatever happens at Rikers Island,” Adams told reporters. “I’m pretty sure she would be willing to handle and deal with the situation.

“As you see with what’s happening with Harvey Weinstein,” Adams continued, “we have to adapt. In this business, especially in law enforcement, we have to adapt to whatever comes our way. We don’t want to deal with a hypothesis, but these are professionals who will be ready.

Trump is on trial in Manhattan on 34 counts of falsifying business records, stemming from hush money allegedly paid to porn actor Stormy Daniels. Trump has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Yesterday, Judge Juan Merchan fined Trump an additional $1,000 for once again violating an order of silence by speaking about jurors. This follows the $9,000 fine imposed last week.

“The last thing I want to do is put you in jail,” Mercan said yesterday. “You are the former president of the United States and perhaps the next president as well.”

“The magnitude of such a decision does not escape me,” the judge continued. “But at the end of the day, I have a job to do.” He told Trump that his “continued and deliberate violations” of the silence order “constitute a direct attack on the rule of law.” I cannot allow this to continue.