New York Mayor Eric Adams met privately with Trump’s Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff earlier this week to debate potential alternatives to affix the Trump administration, a source acquainted with the matter confirmed to NCS.
NCS beforehand reported that aides to President Donald Trump have floated the thought of providing Adams a job within the administration with the intention of blocking Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani from turning into the town’s subsequent mayor. Adams leaving the race might doubtlessly permit former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to consolidate the opposition vote to Mamdani.
Witkoff is one of Trump’s most trusted advisers. The source famous that nothing was supplied to Adams, however that privately the president has indicated he want to provide Adams a job within the administration. The source additionally mentioned that the assembly was saved at a detailed maintain even inside the partitions of the White House, and lots of aides solely realized in regards to the outreach to Adams by means of information studies Wednesday.
The New York Times first reported Witkoff and Adams’ assembly.