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President Donald Trump has dismantled twoof his White House business councils Wednesday.It was an attempt to manage his increasingisolation and the continued fallout from his combative comments on racially charged violencein Charlottesville, Virginia.
Trump announced the action via tweet,
although only after one of the panels
had already agreed to disband earlier
in the day. A growing number of business
leaders on the councils had openly
criticized his remarks laying blame for
the violence at a white supremacists
rally on "both sides."
"Rather than putting pressure on the
businesspeople of the Manufacturing
Council & Strategy & Policy Forum,
I am ending both. Thank you all!"
Trump tweeted from New York.
The decision came as the White House
tried to manage the repercussions from
Trump's defiant remarks a day earlier.
Presidential advisers hunkered down,
offering no public defense while privately
expressing frustration with his comments.
Some Republicans and scores of
Democrats denounced Trump's statements
as putting white supremacists on equal
moral footing with counter-protesters
in Charlottesville and called for an apology.
Most of those Republicans, including
congressional leaders, did not specifically
criticize the president.
Leaders of the four major branches
of the military — who typically avoid
political debate — have all issued
statements decrying racism and
extremism.
Trump himself stayed out of sight,
tweeting occasionally about a primary
in Alabama, the stock market and, once,
his campaign slogan. Midday, he traveled
from New York to his golf club in
New Jersey for the night.
The president told associates he was
pleased with how his press conference
went, saying he believed he had
effectively stood up to the media,
according to three people familiar with
the conversations who demanded
anonymity because they were not
authorized to speak publicly about them.
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