Trump Rips CEOs Quitting Panels as AFL-CIO Joins Defectors List

President Donald Trump said the CEOs quitting his advisory council aren’t taking their jobs seriously, again taking aim at some of America’s most visible business leaders as the fallout from a weekend of racially charged violence in Virginia mounts.

“They’re not taking their job seriously as it pertains to this country,” the president said of the executives at a press conference at Trump Tower in New York Tuesday afternoon. “If you look at some of those people that you’re talking about, they’re outside of the country, they’re having a lot of their product made outside, if you look at Merck as an example.”

The president also doubled down on his earlier statement that both white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville to protest the removal a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and counter-demonstrators were to blame for the mayhem that included the death of one woman. Trump said he saw “blame on both sides.”

A 20-year-old Ohio man, James Alex Fields Jr., who was among those protesting the statue’s removal, has been arrested and charged with murder in the death of the woman, 32-year-old Heather Heyer.

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