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Trump's Business Councils Dissolve After CEOs Turn Against Him
- Business forum disbands after Trump’s Tuesday press conference
- Manufacturing council CEOs criticize remarks on race, violence
Donald Trump said he’s disbanding two advisory groups of American business leaders, after CEOs quit this week as the president faced blowback for failing to sufficiently condemn white supremacists. Bloomberg's Margaret Talev reports on 'Bloomberg Markets.' (Source: Bloomberg)
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Only a day after President Donald Trump labeled as “grandstanders” the growing number of CEOs quitting his business council to protest his response to a white-supremacist rally that turned violent, the president abolished the advisory groups rather than put pressure on executives to stay.