The City of New York will break contracts with the Trump Organization. This decision follows the invasion of the Capitol in Washington by supporters of Donald Trump.
The city of New York will break contracts with the Trump Organization, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Wednesday a week after the violence committed by supporters of the outgoing president on Capitol Hill. “The president incited (his supporters) to a rebellion against the United States government which claimed the lives of five people and almost derailed the constitutional transfer of power”, he said in a statement.
“New York City will not be associated with these unforgivable acts in any form”, adds the mayor. The Trump Organization’s contracts, which cover the operation of an amusement ride in Central Park, ice rinks and a golf course in the Bronx, are worth about $ 17 million a year, Bill de Blasio told MSNBC .
Since the violence of the Capitol January 6, many American businesses and organizations, including Deutsche Bank, the tycoon’s main bank, announced that they had cut their ties or distanced themselves from Donald Trump and his family holding company, the Trump Organization, which is headquartered in Trump Tower on 5th Avenue. In the 1980s, when Donald Trump, still a simple New York businessman, was on the rise, his company took over the management of the two rinks in Central Park: the Wollman Rink, the most famous and the most touristic, south of the park, built in 1950 and closed for several years for work in the early 1980s, and the Lasker Rink, further north, built in 1966. Donald Trump was very proud of these facilities, and regularly cited them as proof of his talents as a real estate entrepreneur.
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