Fourth executive walks away from Trump after Charlottesville
by Jill Disis, Robert Mclean and Jethro Mullen @CNNMoney
The president of a manufacturing association has become the fourth executive to walk away from President Trump after he took two days to denounce white supremacy.
Scott Paul, head of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, quit Trump's manufacturing council on Tuesday. He said on Twitter it was "the right thing for me to do."
He joined the CEOs of Merck, Under Armour and Intel, who all left the council Monday. The group, which Trump established in January with about two dozen members, is supposed to meet occasionally to offer the president advice on job growth.
Trump said on Twitter that he has other CEOs ready to step in and that "grandstanders" should not have joined the manufacturing council in the first place.
The aftermath of the violence at a neo-Nazi and white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, represents the latest break between Trump, who sold himself as a businessman president, and leaders of corporate America.
They have also loudly opposed him on immigration and his decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement.
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