CEOs revolt against Trump over Charlottesville

Leaders of the business world staged a remarkable revolt against President Trump on Wednesday, forcing the White House to disband two economic councils that were hemorrhaging members.

Shortly after news broke early Wednesday that CEOs were ending a White House strategy forum, Trump sought to save face, saying in a tweet that he was ending two councils to spare business leaders from the public pressure they were facing.

But the CEOs who left the councils would not let Trump have the final word.

In a flurry of statements, CEOs of JPMorgan Chase, GE, Johnson & Johnson and 3M lined up to rebuke Trump for Tuesday remarks where he asserted equivalence between white supremacists and counterprotesters and said there were "very fine people" at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va.

“Racism, intolerance and violence is always wrong,” said Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase president who had served on of one of the councils. “There is no room for equivocation here.”

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