Trump lashes CEOs over Virginia violence response
President calls bosses ‘grandstanders’ for resigning from state advisory panels in protest against lack of action
Washington — US President Donald Trump has hit back at business leaders who quit a presidential advisory panel in protest over his response to a rally by far-right groups that turned deadly in Virginia, calling the executives "grandstanders". Trump has faced a storm of criticism from Democrats and members of his own Republican party over his initial response to Saturday’s violence around the rally in Charlottesville. Three business leaders quit a Trump panel in protest on Monday and on Tuesday Scott Paul, president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, said on Twitter he was also resigning from the initiative "because it is the right thing for me to do". On Monday Trump bowed to two days of pressure for a more forceful response to the Charlottesville violence, singling out groups behind the "Unite the Right" rally that were widely seen as stoking the disturbances in which a woman was killed. But he was still clearly frustrated over the reaction to his response. "For every CEO ...
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