Trump Shuts Down Manufacturing Council After More CEOs Resign in Protest

Campbell, 3M, Johnson & Johnson condemned his Charlottesville response

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President Donald Trump has disbanded his American Manufacturing Council after several CEOs departed in protest of his response to a the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. CEOs from 3M, Campbell Soup Company and Johnson & Johnson announced that they would be leaving the council shortly before Trump tweeted he would be shutting it down.

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