Ditching Trump’s White House can be a messy affair
Economic adviser Gary Cohn wrote resignation letters after Charlottesville, joining the ranks of aides who have threatened to quit or resigned — while remaining in the building.
By JOSH DAWSEY and BEN WHITE
08/25/2017 05:30 PM EDT
Updated 08/25/2017 06:39 PM EDT
In Donald Trump’s White House, it seems like almost everyone has an exit strategy. But leaving isn’t always a simple affair, and offers—or threats—to leave don’t always pan out.
Gary Cohn considered quitting after President Donald Trump’s Charlottesville comments and wrote multiple resignation letters, a draft op-ed and answers to reporters’ anticipated questions.
The president’s top economic adviser talked to his family about quitting, and his wife urged him to do so. He went to Bedminster for a last-minute meeting with the president last Friday, according to people familiar with the session. But he didn’t quit, instead choosing to criticize Trump in an interview with the Financial Times while sticking around to see what Trump will do – leaving Cohn in limbo and his White House colleagues and others mystified.
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