New York City is ready to lock up former President Donald Trump if the judge in his historic "hush money" trial orders him jailed for contempt of court, Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday.
Correction Commissioner Lynelle Maginley-Liddie "is prepared for whatever comes on Rikers Island," Adams said during an unrelated news conference, according to the New York Times.
"I'm pretty sure she would be prepared to manage and deal with the situation," he said.
Adams added, "As you see what's happening with Harvey Weinstein, we have to just, you know, in this business, particularly around law enforcement, we have to adjust whatever comes our way," Fox News reported.
"We don't want to deal with a hypothetical, but they're professionals that will be ready," he said.
On Monday, Justice Juan Merchan found Trump, 77, in contempt of court and fined him $1,000 for the tenth time over repeated violations of a gag order.
"I do not want to impose a jail sanction and have done everything I can to avoid doing so. But I will if necessary," Merchan told the first ex-U.S. president to face criminal charges.
The gag order bars Trump from criticizing witnesses, jurors and others connected to the case in which he's accused of directing $130,000 to porn actor Stormy Daniels silence her allegations they had an affair in 2006.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee denies having sex with Daniels and has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records.
Weinstein, who's awaiting a retrial of his 2020 rape conviction in Manhattan, was sent back to Rikers after the City website reported Monday that he was staying in a private room in Bellevue Hospital's intensive care unit instead of the hospital's prison ward.
The disgraced movie mogul, 72, was transferred to Bellevue from Rikers on April 26 for what his lawyer said were "all kinds of tests" because Weinstein was "somewhat of a train wreck, health-wise."
