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The CEO suck-ups to Trump

Robert Reich
Dec 13, 2024
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Friends,

Anyone recall the time in the late summer of 2017 when prominent CEOs resigned from Trump’s business councils in protest at his defense of white nationalists who marched in Charlottesville, after Trump called them “very fine people”?

At the time, I thought America’s CEOs might become a bulwark against Trump’s extremism. But I was wrong. Within mo…

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