New York, the hometown of Donald Trump, was added on Wednesday to organizations that no longer want to do business with his company: the Democratic mayor announced that the City was terminating contracts that gave the Trump Organization the management of certain attractions in Central Park and Bronx Golf Course.
“New York City does not deal with insurgent elements. We are taking action to end the agreements “which entrusted the Trump Organization with the operation of a Central Park merry-go-round and two skating rinks, as well as a Bronx golf club, said Mayor Bill De Blasio, on Twitter.
He explained that his lawyers had concluded that after the violence at the Capitol on January 6, the City was within its right to terminate these contracts, worth some $ 17 million per year.
“If a business or the management of a business is involved in criminal activity, we have the right to stop it. Inciting insurgency against the government is clearly a criminal activity, ”he said.
The violence of the Capitol
Eric Trump, one of the sons of the president who has led the Trump Organization since Donald Trump left for Washington, immediately denounced “political discrimination” and “an attack on the 1is Amendment ”to the US Constitution on Freedom of Speech.
The City “does not have the legal right to terminate contracts, and if it goes ahead, it will owe the Trump Organization $ 30 million,” he said in a statement quoted by the channel. NBC, suggesting he could sue the City.
If a business or the management of a business is involved in criminal activity, we have the right to terminate [aux contrats]. Inciting insurgency against the government is clearly criminal activity.
Since the violence on Capitol Hill on January 6, many American companies and organizations – including Deutsche Bank, the magnate’s main bank, and the PGA American professional golf championship – have announced that they have cut their ties or distance themselves from Donald Trump and Trump. Organization, headquartered in Trump Tower, 5e Avenue.
The mayor’s announcement came as the Democratic-majority House of Representatives in Washington prepares to indict the president for encouraging his supporters to storm the Capitol.
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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