Gary Cohn, the White House economic adviser who stood beside President Trump last week as he blamed "many sides" for violence during the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, said the Trump administration now "must do better" to condemn neo-Nazis and other hate groups.
Making his first public comments since the president said there were "very fine people" among the demonstrators brandishing Confederate battle flags and swastikas, Cohn said in an interview published Friday that he has faced "enormous pressure" to resign. The New York Times reported Friday that Cohn had actually drafted a resignation letter at one point.
Cohn, who is Jewish, is the director of the White House National Economic Council and a former president of Goldman Sachs. He had been described last week by confidants as deeply anguished and angry over Trump's equivocal responses to the Charlottesville violence.
"This 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 said in an interview with the Financial Times.
“I have not been bashful saying what I think,” Cohn said in the interview.
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