New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the city’s notorious Rikers Island prison will be “ready” to receive former President Donald Trump should he be ordered to serve jail time for violating a gag order imposed by the judge presiding over his paperwork trial in Manhattan.
Adams, a Democrat, said the city’s Corrections Department “is prepared for whatever comes on Rikers Island,” and said the facility has experience with well-known individuals from the incarceration of disgraced former movie producer Harvey Weinstein.
“We have to adjust, you know — in this business, particularly around law enforcement, we have to adjust whatever comes our way,” he said at a press conference on Tuesday, according to The Hill. “But we don’t want to deal with a hypothetical. They’re professionals, they’ll be ready.”
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