Charlottesville comment: Trump disbands business advisory councils

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*President Donald Trump of the US

With corporate chieftains fleeing, President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday he was ending a pair of advisory business councils in the latest fallout over his remarks about the Charlottesville protests.
“Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council and Strategy and Policy Forum, I am ending both. Thank you all,” Trump tweeted in a face-saving effort from his home at Trump Tower.
He was to depart New York later Wednesday to return to his New Jersey golf club.
CEOs began announcing their resignations after Trump’s first comments about the violence Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia, between white supremacists and counter-protesters.
The resignations accelerated after he re-emphasized his earlier remarks and on Tuesday blamed “both sides” for the series of events that led to the death of a 32-year-old Charlottesville woman.
Standing in the lobby of Trump Tower on Tuesday, Trump acknowledged that there were “some very bad people” among those who gathered to protest Saturday. But he added: “You also had people that were very fine people, on both sides.”
Trump’s remarks were widely criticized in Washington and around the country.
AP

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