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Wave of resignations hits Commerce Department’s board of ‘digital economy’ advisers

The departures amplify the increasing rift between private sector advisers and the Trump White House.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/18/trump-commerce-department-advisory-board-resignations-241791

More business executives are departing en masse from Trump administration advisory positions, with a new set of resignations from a Commerce Department advisory board following an exodus from two business groups advising the White House, which then disbanded both of them.

More than half of the members of the 15-person Digital Economy Board of Advisors, an expert board set up last year by the Obama administration to help the federal government navigate the digital economy, are known to have resigned this week in the wake of President Donald Trump's controversial comments about the violence last week in Charlottesville, Va.

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18 minutes ago, renoskier said:

@UNLV2001 did you see the open letter  Steven Mnichin's Yale classmates wrote to him. 

 

I don't know how to post that from my tablet 

Did not see that 

 

But did find this: http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2017/08/18/alumni-letter-urges-steve-mnuchin-85-to-resign-as-treasury-secretary/

 

In an open letter circulated on Friday, members of the Yale College class of 1985 called upon their classmate, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin ’85, to resign immediately in protest of President Donald Trump’s comments on a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend in which far-right hate groups clashed with counter-protesters, resulting in the deaths of two state troopers and one young woman.
The letter, which has more than 290 signatures, addresses Trump’s remarks at a press briefing on Tuesday in which he said there was “blame on both sides” after a white nationalist drove a car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one person. The letter asserted that Mnuchin has a moral obligation to stand up to Trump, whom the letter calls a “sympathizer” of white supremacists and neo-nazis.
“We call upon you, as our friend, our classmate, and as a fellow American, to resign in protest of President Trump’s support of Nazism and white supremacy. We know you are better than this, and we are counting on you to do the right thing,” the letter said.

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Incompetent president gonna incompetent his cabinet. This was embarrassing enough already, now it's a full fledged freak show. 

There are only two things I can't stand in this world: people who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch. 

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