New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Trump’s «incitement of insurrection» before the Capitol riot «clearly constitutes criminal activity.»
New York officials are putting up «you’re not welcome» signs to one of their own and on Wednesday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the city was breaking ties with the Trump Organization. Worth a reported $17 million per year, de Blasio told MSNBC’s Morning Joe the city was severing all contracts with the Trump Organization, saying the legal team believes they’re within their right to do so because the leadership of the company was engaged in «criminal activity.» «Inciting an insurrection against the United States government clearly constitutes criminal activity,» de Blasio said. «The City of New York will no longer have anything to do with the Trump Organization. They have profited from these kinds of contracts. They will profit no longer.» The contracts cover three sites in New York City and one in the Bronx. De Blasio identified them in a tweet as the Central Park Carousel, Wollman and Lasker skating rinks and the Ferry Point Golf Course. Wollman rink is one of Trump’s early success stories when he showed a private developer could do what the city couldn’t.
