President
Trump’s main council of top corporate leaders appeared on the verge of
disbanding on Wednesday, said people briefed on the matter, following
controversial remarks from Mr. Trump on Tuesday when he equated white
nationalist hate groups with the protesters opposing them.
Late Wednesday morning, Stephen A. Schwarzman,
the chief executive of the Blackstone Group and one of Mr. Trump’s
closest confidants in the business community, organized a conference
call for members of the president’s Strategic and Policy Forum.
On the call, the chief executives of some of the largest companies in the country were debating how to proceed.
One option under serious consideration was disbanding the forum altogether.
If the forum does survive, several C.E.O.s were expected to resign from it.
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The
council includes Laurence D. Fink of BlackRock, Ginni Rometty of IBM,
Rich Lesser of the Boston Consulting Group and Toby Cosgrove of the
Cleveland Clinic.
Later this afternoon, executives from the president’s manufacturing council are expected to have a similar call.
Inge
Thulin, the chief executive of 3M, said in a statement Wednesday that
he would resign from the manufacturing council, joining a wave of
defections since Monday, including the C.E.O.s of Merck, Under Armour
and Intel.
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