Trump takes a hit as CEOs abandon ship
The Charlottesville fallout undermines Republicans' image among the business community
Washington
DURING his campaign for president, Donald Trump boasted of business prowess, vowing to bring in top executives to help him revive the economy and to personally lobby corporate chiefs to keep jobs in the United States.
Those CEOs are now abandoning him in a humiliating snub for a president who took great pleasure in summoning corporate titans to the White House and trying to get them to bend to his will.
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