Eric Adams To Meet With Trump As Court Documents Are Due

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Eric Adams is heading to the White House on Friday to have an audience with President Donald Trump, on the same day the Department of Justice is set to release documents in the mayor's now-dismissed corruption case.

It will be the first in-person meeting between the Democratic mayor and Republican president since Adams traveled to Florida in January to meet with Trump near his Mar-a-Lago estate.

"The mayor will travel to Washington D.C. for a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump to discuss New York City priorities," reads his public schedule, updated Friday morning to include the confab.

The sit-down comes amid Friday's deadline for Trump’s Justice Department to publicly disclose documents in Adams’ case, which a judge dropped last month at the urging of the DOJ. The court papers to be unsealed are expected to shed light on the prosecution into a mayor accused of taking bribes from Turkish officials. They were initially due on the public docket last Friday, but the DOJ failed to file them, defying an order by U.S. District Judge Dale Ho.

“We’re looking forward to finding ways that we can collaborate together to address infrastructure and other funding items,” Adams said in a brief video made aboard an airplane and posted Friday morning to social media.

The Trump DOJ had directed Manhattan prosecutors to drop Adams’ corruption case in February, sparking a cascade of prosecutor resignations in protest. Then-interim Manhattan U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon and others left, and Sassoon accused DOJ officials of engaging in a quid pro quo with Adams. The mayor had pleaded not guilty to the initial charges and subsequently denied cutting any deal with the Trump administration to have his case dismissed.

Ho agreed to drop the case against the mayor permanently.

Adams, a moderate Democrat, has warmed to Trump since the president’s 2024 campaign, finding common ground in what both have alleged are politicized prosecutions. The mayor routinely criticized the Biden administration for neglecting to provide aid as New York City grappled with an influx of more than 200,000 migrants on his watch, and he now says he is intent on working with the Trump administration.

Adams’ meetings with Trump border czar Tom Homan, as an example, led the mayor to agree to an executive order returning federal immigration officers to the Rikers Island jail complex — loosening a "sanctuary city" policy advanced under his predecessor, Bill de Blasio.

Adams is running for reelection this year as an independent and foregoing the Democratic primary, an acknowledgment that his standing among New York City Democrats — who have resoundingly rejected Trump three times — is too weak for him to pursue that route.