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Charlottesville Victim’s Mother Urges ‘Righteous Action’

Susan Bro, mother to Heather Heyer, speaks during a memorial for her daughter, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, at the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville, Va. Heyer
was killed Saturday, when a car rammed into a crowd of people protesting a white nationalist rally.
(Andrew Shurtleff/The Daily Progress via AP, Pool)
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Corporate Chiefs Flee Trump: Advisory Panels Disbanded

By JULIE BYKOWICZ violence at a white supremacists statements as putting white su- to the media, according to three
JONATHAN LEMIRE rally on “both sides.” premacists on equal moral footing people familiar with the conversa-
Associated Press “Rather than putting pressure on with counter-protesters in Charlot- tions but not authorized to speak
NEW YORK (AP) — With corporate the businesspeople of the Manu- tesville and called for an apology. publicly about them.
chieftains fleeing, President Don- facturing Council & Strategy & Pol- Most of those Republicans, includ- Business leaders felt differently.
ald Trump abruptly abolished two icy Forum, I am ending both. Thank ing congressional leaders, did not Denise Morrison, chief executive
of his White House business coun- you all!” Trump tweeted from New specifically criticize the president. of Campbell Soup, declared she
cils Wednesday — the latest fallout York. Trump himself stayed out of sight, was leaving Trump’s manufac-
from his combative comments on The decision came as the White tweeting occasionally about a pri- turing council, saying, “The presi-
racially charged violence in Char- House tried to manage the reper- mary in Alabama, the stock market dent should have been — and still
lottesville, Virginia. cussions from Trump’s defiant re- and, once, his campaign slogan. needs to be — unambiguous” in
Trump announced the action via marks a day earlier. Presidential Midday, he traveled from New denouncing white supremacists.
tweet, although only after one of advisers hunkered down, offering York to his golf club in New Jersey CEOs had begun tendering their
the panels had already agreed to no public defense while privately for the night. resignations from White House pan-
disband earlier in the day. A grow- expressing frustration with his com- The president told associates he els after Trump’s initial comments
ing number of business leaders on ments. was pleased with how his press following the Saturday violence.
the councils had openly criticized Some Republicans and scores of conference went, saying he be-
his remarks laying blame for the Democrats denounced Trump’s lieved he had effectively stood up Continued on page 3