Trump tries to claim he dissolved 2 councils of CEOs after advisory group chooses to disband
Source: raw story
16 Aug 2017 at 13:43 ET
President Donald Trump is claiming he dissolved two councils of CEOs after multiple CEOs resigned from one panel and the other chose to disband altogether.
After the resignations of three executives from President Donald Trumps American Manufacturing Council, Axios.com was contacted by executives from the Presidents Strategic and Policy Forum, who said they had decided to disband.
CEOs on President Trumps top outside business-advisory group decided Wednesday to disband amid the tumult over his response to this weekends white-nationalist violence in Charlottesville, top business sources tell Axios, said Allen on Wednesday.
Moments after Axios made the announcement that the Strategy and Policy Forum is disbanding, President Trump tweeted that he was ending both groups, apparently trying to take credit for the executives decision.
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Mods. I know there is a story about Trump saying he is dissolving the 2 councils in LBN but I feel this story is significantly different.
I will move if you want.
Link to tweet
**Edit to add:
Mike Allen 2 hrs ago
Top Trump business group to disband amid Charlottesville tumult
https://www.axios.com/top-trump-business-group-to-disband-amid-over-charlottesville-2473718256.html
Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP
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"Debate over the forum has become a distraction and the group has decided to disband," a top executive said as a conference call of the CEOs continued.
How it happened: The decision was made quickly, the executive said: "Given the comments of the last several days, no one could continue to be seen as supporting this kind of divisiveness."
Why it matters: Trump's "both sides" response to the violence has made CEOs even more wary of interacting with the White House, with many of them facing pressure from employees and shareholders to distance themselves. We are witnessing the swiftest, biggest big business rebuke/revolt of the Trump presidency.
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List of members, via Axios' Erica Pandey:......................
woundedkarma
(498 posts)By being an evil racist.
riversedge
(70,299 posts)underpants
(182,878 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,621 posts)VaBchTgerLily
(231 posts)now that all these leaders are ditching him, he will claim that it was his idea to quit it all
rurallib
(62,448 posts)everybody knows the real story.
oxbow
(2,034 posts)It's an interesting time to live in when business people have better moral standing than the "godly" ones.
LiberalFighter
(51,084 posts)Their "godly" values are corrupt as hell.
Blue Idaho
(5,057 posts)The evangelicals are nothing more than an easy way to separate the suckers from their cash.
LiberalFighter
(51,084 posts)I noticed the difference between his words versus reality too.
Blue Idaho
(5,057 posts)Reminds me of that old saying "With friends like this - who needs enemies?"
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)Chicken or egg..... 1st?