Washington – AFL-CIO Leader Resigns From Trump’s Council, Says President ‘Tolerates Bigotry’

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    In this Feb. 1, 2016, photo, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Washington. APWashington – President Donald Trump is losing a fifth member of his manufacturing jobs council: AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka.

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    The union leader says: “We cannot sit on a council for a president who tolerates bigotry and domestic terrorism. President Trump’s remarks today repudiate his forced remarks yesterday about the KKK and neo-Nazis.”

    In remarks Tuesday in New York City, Trump seemed to defend some people marching with white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia. The protest Saturday over the removal of a Confederate statute led to violence and the death of one counter-protester.

    Among those who’ve left the panel are the chief executives for Merck, Under Armour and Intel and the president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing.

    Trump says the departures were due to some of those companies making products overseas.


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    6 years ago

    These deserters are foolish. They are watching too much CNN and believing the nonsense they spew there. Trump is completely correct when he is persistent in calling them fake news.

    hashomer
    hashomer
    6 years ago

    Toxic Trumpf has no moral compass, failing to denounce nazis marching w torches in Charlottesville. Both business and union leaders are calling Trumpf out on his core racism. How can any Jews, especially ‘frum’ Jews support this demagogue who is in bed w white nationalists? Bannon, Gorka? Maybe the alt- yidden approve of his racism?

    6 years ago

    The so-called business leaders are the biggest anti-semites, with their WASP boardrooms, and their WASP managers. They are the biggest hypocrites! Regarding the Merck executive who quit, Trump was right, when he stated that Merck makes drugs overseas, and rips the public off with its inflated prices.

    Buchwalter
    Buchwalter
    6 years ago

    There is morality and immorality punishable by U.S. civil code and there is amorality The president has one moral compass win with whose help does not matter . Maybe he should read the sorcerer’ s apprentice .He would learn a lot

    6 years ago

    To #20 and #21 - Kindly learn how to write proper English, before posting anything on this site. The point that I’m trying to make is that the majority of those large corporations are Judenrein, vis-a-vis their respective board of officers, and their top managers.

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    6 years ago

    How much thought does it take to say you are opposed to people marching with swastikas and torches?