President Trump is facing heated criticism over not publicly condemning
white nationalists for inciting this weekend’s bloody confrontation in
Charlottesville, Va., but on Monday he criticized the head of Merck
pharmaceuticals for quitting a federal panel in protest of Mr. Trump’s
equivocal response to the violence.
Merck’s
chief executive, Kenneth C. Frazier, resigned from the president’s
American Manufacturing Council on Monday, saying he objected to the
president’s statement on Saturday blaming violence that left one woman
dead on “many sides.”
“America’s
leaders must honor our fundamental views by clearly rejecting
expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy, which run counter to
the American ideal that all people are created equal,” Mr. Frazier said in a tweet announcing he was stepping down from the panel. Mr. Frazier is one of just a handful of black chief executives of a Fortune 500 company.
Less
than hour later, Mr. Trump, responded on social media as he departed
his golf resort in Bedminster, N.J., for a day trip back to Washington.
Correction: August 14, 2017
An earlier version of this article misquoted part of President Trump’s statement on the violence in Charlottesville, Va. He blamed “many sides,” not “all sides,” for the violence that left one woman dead.
An earlier version of this article misquoted part of President Trump’s statement on the violence in Charlottesville, Va. He blamed “many sides,” not “all sides,” for the violence that left one woman dead.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment