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After Losing Support, Trump's Business and Manufacturing Councils Are Shutting Down (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on from the end-of-road dept.

Over a dozen anonymous readers share a similar report: Two White House advisory councils that once included tech leaders like Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick have dissolved, after several members resigned over President Donald Trump's weak condemnation of white supremacists. A member of the Strategic and Policy Forum told CNBC that it wanted to make a "more significant impact" by disbanding the entire group: "It makes a central point that it's not going to go forward. It's done." Soon after, Trump took credit for shutting down both that group and a separate Manufacturing Council, "rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople." The councils' members came from a range of industries, including several major Silicon Valley companies. Besides Musk and Kalanick, executives from Intel, IBM, and Dell had joined. It's been controversial from the start -- Musk and Kalanick both left months ago -- but a major exodus started this week, after Trump issued a vague statement blaming "many sides" for violence at a white supremacist rally that left one woman dead. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich resigned on Monday, saying that politics had "sidelined the important mission of rebuilding America's manufacturing base." Axios has more details.

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  1. Opportunistic by DigiShaman · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    For all these fucking cowards of CEO, next time we have mass immigration, we will house them in their neighborhoods. Lets see how inclusive they are! Let see how tolerant they are. No, all they see is money and big donation. They don't give two-fucks about what's best for the nation. All they care about is if they smell blood, and go on a feeding frenzy to get more.

    Wait till Antifa and BLM goes on a rampage. Will they, or rather, have the EVER denounced them? FUCK NO!!! And they never will.

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    1. Re:Opportunistic by DigiShaman · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      BLM members are racists, and Obama invited them and said the protests were a good thing. Were was the MSM outrage there? Yeah, you know the answer to that.

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    2. Re:Opportunistic by hondo77 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      ...and you are a racist, whiny bitch.

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  2. Re:Has Slashdot been sold? by Suiggy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Spotted the nazi. It's you.

  3. Re:It's true by x0ra · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Let's not forget about the real problem: leftist nutjob trying to rewrite history by tearing down confederate statue. Just like ISIS is doing across the muslims world.

  4. Lock him up by nospam007 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The funniest thing is that the Nazi-in-chief declares that _he_ disbanded them, before being fled by all of them.
    That moron is really the limbo champion of the world, nobody can go lower than him.