A prominent Jewish member of President Donald Trump’s administration said he’s come under “enormous pressure” both to quit and to remain at the White House following the administration’s widely criticized response to violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
White House economic adviser Gary Cohn said in an interview with the Financial Times: “As a Jewish American, I will not allow neo-Nazis ranting ‘Jews will not replace us’ to cause this Jew to leave his job.”
The New York Times reported Friday that Cohn had actually drafted a resignation letter in the aftermath of Trump’s Charlottesville response.
Some are speculating Cohn decided to stay on out of concern his departure would have a dramatic and negative affect on the stock market. Others are suggesting he is holding out in hopes to be appointed chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Cohn said he was reluctant to leave also because he feels a duty to his job. But, he said, he felt “compelled to voice my distress” over the Charlottesville incident, adding “citizens standing up for equality and freedom can never be equated with white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and the KKK.”
Trump initially said “both sides” were to blame for the violence in Charlottesville. He later blamed the media for the condemnation of his response to the violent protests, saying in Phoenix he’d “openly called for healing unity and love” in the immediate aftermath.
Cohn told the newspaper that the Trump administration “can and must do better in consistently and unequivocally condemning these groups and do everything we can to heal the deep divisions that exist in our communities.”
Cohn, the director of the National Economic Council, outlined the administration’s upcoming push to overhaul the nation’s tax code in the interview. He said the bill could be passed in the House and Senate in 2017, pushing back the administration’s timetable for a bill to reach the president’s desk. The White House had said previously that it expected final passage in November.
Cohn said the tax overhaul is the White House’s “number one focus right now” and said the president will be making a major push for changing the nation’s tax system beginning next week. Trump is expected to rally support for a tax overhaul at an event next Wednesday in Springfield, Missouri. Administration officials have argued that lowering personal and business tax rates would generate millions of jobs and spur faster economic growth.
(YWN/AP)
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The headline should read “ONE of Trump’s Jewish Advisors” unfortunately most have remained silent.
This is especially concerning because there is not a sound of protest from his Jewish “special envoys” who worked for his organization and vouched for his character during the campaign when Trump failed to distance himself from David Duke and made bigoted remarks at AIPAC and the RJC conference.
Equally concerning is how many in our community will bend over backward to defend the most reprehensible actions and words of Trump. It is the height of hypocrisy for people who claim to care about morals, religion and Jewish values to keep on defending and supporting this abhorrent man.
“Trump initially said “both sides” were to blame for the violence in Charlottesville.”
And, he was proven to be 100% correct.
The lefties just can’t accept any criticism of their own ilk.
What makes him Jewish? He’s an economic advisor who claims Jewish ancestry. According to Wikipedia, he attended private non-Jewish schools (showing his lack of Jewish education was deliberate rather than due to inability to pay tuition). The fact that he feels unthreatened by the secular fanatics on the left suggests he doesn’t self identify as a Yid.
crazykanoiy, are you really that crazy, just like your name says, to believe Trump is Nazi and KKK support or you are just dumb?
Akuperma: The fact that he is revolted by a president who describes people at a neo Nazi march as “fine people” shows that he has a true sense of Jewish pride and a true understanding of the historical suffering that our people suffered at the hands of racists and bigots – something that you apparently do not have.
Moshe in Golus, Are you really in golus or do you really think that people attending a KKK Nazi rally chanting “Jews will not replace us” are “fine people” as Drumpf described them.
Your support for a vile immoral gutless race baiter is pretty pathetic. The 1940’s weren’t that long ago. How quickly people forget and are willing to defend those that defend people who support those that killed 6 million of our people.