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Trump’s manufacturing council keeps shedding members after Charlottesville

A wave of business and labor resignations kept hammering Trump’s American Manufacturing Council on August 15, as executives and leaders quit in protest of the president’s response to the Charlottesville violence. The exits made the panel look increasingly toxic, and Trump made it worse by publicly dismissing the departures and picking fights with people who said they could not stand beside him after the weekend’s events.

Why it matters: Council collapse

First recorded Aug 15, 2017·Meaningfully updated Aug 15, 2017

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Trump’s manufacturing council keeps shedding members after Charlottesville

A wave of business and labor resignations kept hammering Trump’s American Manufacturing Council on August 15, as executives and leaders quit in protest of the president’s response to the Charlottesville violence. The exits made the panel look increasingly toxic, and Trump made it worse by publicly dismissing the departures and picking fights with people who said they could not stand beside him after the weekend’s ev…

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