What you should know
- New York City to terminate four contracts with the Trump Organization to run the city’s entertainment venues following the Capitol riots
- Those four contracts are worth about $ 17 million a year to the president’s business.
- Mayor Bill de Blasio said the president’s alleged “incitement to insurrection” was “criminal activity” that gave the city freedom to act.
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NEW YORK – New York City is breaking all of its contracts with the Trump Organization, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday.
De Blasio said the contracts allowed the city to void them if a vendor’s leadership violated the law, and said Trump’s “incitement to insurrection” was clearly “criminal activity.”
The four contracts, to operate the Central Park carousel, the Wollman and Lasker skating rinks and the Ferry Point golf course, are worth about $ 17 million a year to Trump’s business, the mayor said.
“Our legal team has done an evaluation and the contracts make it very clear, if a company, the leadership of that company, is involved in criminal activity, we have the right to break the contract,” De Blasio said on MSNBC. “Inciting an insurrection – let’s be clear, I’m going to say these words again, inciting an insurrection against the US government – clearly constitutes criminal activity.”
The decision comes just hours before a House of Representatives votes to impeach Trump for the second time in his presidency.
Like the city’s contract movement, the impeachment is linked to Trump’s rally for alleged election fraud on Jan.6, after which his supporters stormed Capitol Hill and occupied the House and Senate.
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