Gary Cohn, Trump’s Adviser, Said to Have Drafted Resignation Letter After Charlottesville<br />Mr. Cohn added, “As a Jewish American, I will not allow neo-Nazis ranting ‘Jews will not replace us’ to cause this Jew to leave his job.”<br />Mr. Cohn’s decision to publicly distance himself from the president comes at an awkward time, as Mr. Trump prepares next week to<br />start a major national effort to sell a tax-cut plan, which Mr. Cohn has been toiling for months behind the scenes to craft.<br />Mr. Trump said there were “very fine people on both sides,” as Mr. Cohn stood nearby<br />in the lobby of Trump Tower where the president made his remarks to reporters.<br />In his first public remarks on the national dialogue about the violence, Mr. Cohn said in an interview on Thursday with the Financial Times,<br />that as a “patriotic American” he did not want to leave his job as the director of the national economic council.<br />“Starting next week the president’s agenda and calendar is going to revolve around<br />tax reform,” Mr. Cohn said in the interview with the Financial Times.<br />The sharp critique from Mr. Trump’s top economic adviser, Gary D. Cohn, came nearly two weeks after<br />deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va., in response to a rally led by white nationalist groups.<br />On Thursday, Mr. Cohn spoke publicly for the first time about the issue in the Financial Times interview, which largely focused on tax reform.<br />“Citizens standing up for equality and freedom can never be equated with white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and the K. K.K.,” Mr. Cohn said.
