TRUMP ABRUPTLY ENDS MANUFACTURING COUNCIL AFTER 3 CEOS RESIGNED

- Trump dissolute 2 teams of business advisory council after3 CEO distanced themselves from his stand on racism riot in Charlottesville

- He announced the dissolution of the two teams on his twitter page

- Nigerian man, Adebayo Ogunlesi, was a member of one of the teams

Nigerian born international CEO, Adebayo Ogunlesi, has now ceased to be an adviser to embattled US President Donald Trump. Trump sacked him today along with other distinguished CEOs counselling him via two councils on how to “Make America Great Again”.

Recall that 24repoters.com  reports that Trump appointed Ogunlesi and others members of the business advisory councils in January 2017.

Trump sacked Ogunlesi and other members of the business advisory council on Twitter, when he announced the dissolution of two councils, in one fell swoop.

Ogunlesi was a member of the Strategic and Policy Forum, one of the two disbanded by the unpredictable president. The other group was the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative Council.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ogunlesi heads Global Infrastructure Partners, a private equity firm and one of Fortune 500 companies. He was the only African on the panel.

 

Before Trump’s tweeted dissolution, members of Ogunlesi’s panel were already debating dissolving the body entirely as Trump wallowed deeper into bigotry quagmire. But Trump preempted their move.

“Corporate leaders had hoped that President Trump would help businesses by slashing taxes and gutting regulations. It is not clear how much he will deliver on that score.

"On top of that, he is putting many chief executives in the position of answering for a president with an unparalleled track record of outraging people, most recently at a contentious press conference on Tuesday when he drew a false equivalence between the white supremacists who protested in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend and counter-protesters.” New York Times reported.

Trump had earned rebuke and isolation from business leaders for supporting racial bigotry, White Supremacists and the KKK, following his remarks that failed to blame the tragic violence in Charlottesville, Virginia on the groups. Instead, he blamed all the sides and the group that challenged the racists.

The leaders of three companies — Kenneth Frazier of Merck, Kevin Plank of Under Armour and Brian Krzanich of Intel — were the first to resign from the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative Council.

They resigned on Monday because Mr. Trump was slow to condemn the white supremacists during the weekend and blamed “many sides” for the violence.

When Trump moderated his tone on Monday by saying “racism is evil” and also condemned neo-Nazis, he did not assuage some of the CEOs working with him.

Scott Paul, the president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, an organization backed by the steel industry and the United Steelworkers resigned. He was followed on Tuesday by Richard Trumka and Thea Lee, the president and deputy chief of staff for the union group A.F.L.-C.I.O. The latter’s resignation followed Trump’s reversed position at a press conference at Trump Tower in New York, in which he said that “not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me,” referring to the white nationalists who were chanting “Jews will not replace us” as they marched with tiki-torches.

Ogunlesi’s Strategic Forum, composed some of America’s most highly respected and successful business leaders.

Members of the body were expected to meet with Trump frequently to share their specific experience and knowledge as the president implemented his plan to bring back jobs and “Make America Great Again. ”

Meanwhile, in an apparent long-shot attempt to remove Donald Trump from office, a Democratic member of the US Congress Rep. Brad Sherman, has filed an article of impeachment against the US president.

Sherman (D-California) made the filing on Wednesday, July 12. Trump is accused by the lawmaker of obstructing the ongoing investigation into Russian meddling in the US election.

According to Sherman, the firing of James Comey, the former FBI director, indicated an act of obstruction.

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