Mayor Adams is slated to meet with President Trump in Washington, D.C. to “discuss New York City priorities,” his office announced Friday morning.
The mayor’s friendly relationship with Trump has been the subject of enormous scrutiny after the president’s Department of Justice stepped in to get his federal corruption case dismissed.
The mayor, who denies a quid pro quo with Trump, dropped out of June’s Democratic mayoral primary shortly after the unusual dismissal and is instead seeking reelection as an independent candidate in November’s general election.
White House spokespeople did not immediately return requests for comment.
Tiffany Raspberry, deputy mayor for intergovernmental affairs, will also be at the meeting, according to Adams spokesperson Kayla Mamelak, a spokesperson for Adams.
Mamelak also noted that Gov. Hochul has also traveled to D.C. to meet with the president.
Trump’s Department of Justice secured the dismissal last month, after they discussed with Adams and his legal team how dropping the case would pave the way for Adams to help the Trump administration with its efforts to target undocumented New Yorkers for “mass deportations.”
The mayor has consistently said he wants to “work, not war” with the president.
The 3 p.m. sit-down was scheduled to take place just two hours before a deadline by which Trump’s Department of Justice must release search warrant materials and other sealed records from Adams’ federal corruption case.
The judge presiding over the since-dismissed case initially ordered Trump’s DOJ to release the materials last week, but the department blew the deadline and got an extension until 5 p.m. Friday.
It’s unclear what the sealed materials will show, but public attention in the records have been high in light of the controversial dismissal of the mayor’s indictment.
