New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced that the city council will sever “all contracts” it currently has with the Trump organization for the president’s “criminal activities”, referring to the January 6 attack on headquarters of Congress. American.
The City Council’s legal teams have investigated the possibility of canceling these contracts and have concluded that the authorities can do so if a company or its main responsible person is involved in “criminal activities,” which De Blasio said in this case is the case.
The Democratic mayor has accused Trump in an interview with MSNBC of “provoking an uprising” against the institutions, referring to speeches to his followers that coincided with Congressional certification of the results of the latest election.
“New York City does not do business with insurgents,” De Blasio has condemned on his Twitter account, explaining that this decision will result in the termination of several concessions, including Central Park’s carousel, two rinks. and a golf course.
The Trump Organization, a business conglomerate primarily engaged in real estate management and development, is based in New York. The president was forced to relinquish control of the company to his sons in 2017, when he assumed the presidency of the United States, but he has never fully retired.