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12-07-2016, 11:25 AM
Mayor Emanuel to meet with Trump in New York this morning
Mayor Rahm Emanuel will meet with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York on Wednesday morning, the mayor's office has confirmed.
Trump requested the meeting when he and Emanuel had a telephone conversation last month, Emanuel spokesman Adam Collins said in a statement.
"Mayor Emanuel will meet with the president-elect this morning when he is in New York for a series of other meetings," Collins said. "When they spoke a few weeks ago the president-elect asked for a meeting with the mayor, as he has done with others who have significant experience in the White House and several other big city mayors."
The meeting is scheduled for 9 a.m. Chicago time. It comes after Emanuel's brother, Hollywood talent agency CEO Ari Emanuel, met with Trump at the wealthy developer's New Jersey golf course last month. Trump repeatedly has called Ari Emanuel a friend, and the younger Emanuel once represented the former reality TV star.
As for the mayor, he's received political support from Trump in the past, including a $50,000 campaign contribution.
Chicago aldermen took steps to remove an honorary street sign bearing Trump's name outside of his Chicago Trump Tower.
The City Council voted a week before the Nov. 8 presidential election to take down the signs, citing the "caricature" of Chicago that Trump presented during the campaign through his frequent mentions of the city as a place overrun with violent crime. Aldermen also knocked Trump's pledge to deport millions of immigrants in the country illegally in voting to take away the street sign honor. The signs were taken down by city crews without fanfare.
Ald. Brendan Reilly, 42nd, who represents downtown and led the drive to remove the sign, pledged to return the $5,000 Trump contributed to his campaign fund in 2010, but Emanuel declined to do the same.
"That was six years ago," Emanuel said when asked if he would return the money.
Emanuel, however, has made it a point to push back against Trump since the election, including repeatedly insisting Chicago would remain a welcoming place for immigrants and remain a sanctuary city.
Trump has pledged to deport millions of immigrants living in the country illegally. The Justice Department released a memo in May saying Chicago could stand to lose nearly $29 million in annual justice grants if found to be in violation of federal laws on detaining people to be turned over for possible deportation. Emanuel has declined to say what he would do if Trump takes away that money, but he has indicated he doesn't believe the president-elect will take that step because he'd be targeting many of the nation's largest cities.
"When you're in the White House, it is incoming," said Emanuel, who worked in the Clinton and Obama administrations. "When they look at all the things they want to get done and all the battles that will be coming — whether the battles they initiate and the ones that come to them — they will make a choice that this is not the battle they want to take on because they have bigger fish to fry, mark my words."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-mayor-rahm-emanuel-donald-trump-meeting-20161207-story.html
Mayor Rahm Emanuel will meet with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York on Wednesday morning, the mayor's office has confirmed.
Trump requested the meeting when he and Emanuel had a telephone conversation last month, Emanuel spokesman Adam Collins said in a statement.
"Mayor Emanuel will meet with the president-elect this morning when he is in New York for a series of other meetings," Collins said. "When they spoke a few weeks ago the president-elect asked for a meeting with the mayor, as he has done with others who have significant experience in the White House and several other big city mayors."
The meeting is scheduled for 9 a.m. Chicago time. It comes after Emanuel's brother, Hollywood talent agency CEO Ari Emanuel, met with Trump at the wealthy developer's New Jersey golf course last month. Trump repeatedly has called Ari Emanuel a friend, and the younger Emanuel once represented the former reality TV star.
As for the mayor, he's received political support from Trump in the past, including a $50,000 campaign contribution.
Chicago aldermen took steps to remove an honorary street sign bearing Trump's name outside of his Chicago Trump Tower.
The City Council voted a week before the Nov. 8 presidential election to take down the signs, citing the "caricature" of Chicago that Trump presented during the campaign through his frequent mentions of the city as a place overrun with violent crime. Aldermen also knocked Trump's pledge to deport millions of immigrants in the country illegally in voting to take away the street sign honor. The signs were taken down by city crews without fanfare.
Ald. Brendan Reilly, 42nd, who represents downtown and led the drive to remove the sign, pledged to return the $5,000 Trump contributed to his campaign fund in 2010, but Emanuel declined to do the same.
"That was six years ago," Emanuel said when asked if he would return the money.
Emanuel, however, has made it a point to push back against Trump since the election, including repeatedly insisting Chicago would remain a welcoming place for immigrants and remain a sanctuary city.
Trump has pledged to deport millions of immigrants living in the country illegally. The Justice Department released a memo in May saying Chicago could stand to lose nearly $29 million in annual justice grants if found to be in violation of federal laws on detaining people to be turned over for possible deportation. Emanuel has declined to say what he would do if Trump takes away that money, but he has indicated he doesn't believe the president-elect will take that step because he'd be targeting many of the nation's largest cities.
"When you're in the White House, it is incoming," said Emanuel, who worked in the Clinton and Obama administrations. "When they look at all the things they want to get done and all the battles that will be coming — whether the battles they initiate and the ones that come to them — they will make a choice that this is not the battle they want to take on because they have bigger fish to fry, mark my words."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-mayor-rahm-emanuel-donald-trump-meeting-20161207-story.html