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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 10:11 AM Aug 2017

Trump dissolved CEO councils AFTER they already had decided to break up with him.

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/trump-business-advisory-council-to-disband-1502904005

In the hours that followed Mr. Trump’s combative news conference Tuesday—during which he appeared to apportion blame equally between white supremacist groups and counterprotesters for lethal violence in Charlottesville, Va.—executives on two prominent advisory councils started calling each other to discuss whether to stay on.

On a 45-minute conference call that started around 11:30 a.m. ET Wednesday, members of the President’s Strategic and Policy Forum decided to dissolve the group.

Blackstone Group LP chief Stephen A. Schwarzman, who organized the conference call, called the White House and spoke with Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and a presidential adviser, to give him the news, according to a person familiar with the call. Around the same time, the manufacturing council also had a call and decided to disband.

Within minutes of the call to Mr. Kushner, Mr. Trump posted on Twitter that he had dissolved the councils:




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Trump dissolved CEO councils AFTER they already had decided to break up with him. (Original Post) DetlefK Aug 2017 OP
You can't quit! You're FIRED! bigbrother05 Aug 2017 #1
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