Posted on 08/26/2017 6:35:42 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Gary Cohn is President Trump’s National Economic Council Director. In an interview with the Financial Times, Cohn criticized Trump’s comments about the violence in Charlottesville, stating that “citizens standing up for equality and freedom can never be equated with white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and the KKK.”
True. But Trump did not equate the two sets of people. He said that more than one side was to blame for the violence in Charlottesville.
This statement is true. Even a New York Times reporter who witnesses the violence acknowledged the role of the “hard left” in the violence.
It’s bad enough when a presidential adviser goes on the record to rip the president for something he said. When an adviser rips the president for a statement he did not make, that adviser should be sacked.
Moreover, it is Cohn who made an improper equation. He equated the antifa thugs who committed violence in Charlottesville with those who “stand up for equality and freedom.”
Antifa isn’t about standing up for equality and freedom. It’s about imposing a far left vision through violence and anarchy.
These thugs and their sympathizers were not standing up for freedom when they rioted in Berkeley in an attempt to shut down the free speech rights, or when they caused the cancellation of a parade Portland, Oregon by threatening violence against Republican participants, or when they smashed windows and assaulted police officers in Washington, D.C. the day of Trump’s inauguration.
Antifa is the antithesis of a group that stands up for freedom. It seeks to deny freedom to its political opponents, including mainstream ones such as Oregon Republicans. Even the radically leftist Southern Poverty Law Center has criticized them.
Yet, the clueless investment banker from Goldman Sachs, equates them with freedom fighters. Has he worked out why they wear masks?
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Cohn’s urge to engage in virtue signaling overcame not only his sense of loyalty to the president but his regard for the truth. It has not overcome his eagerness to participate in the Trump administration, but should put an end to Trump’s willingness to have him continue that participation.
UPDATE: John’s latest post is on point. Cohn’s inability or unwillingness to perceive the current threat to freedom posed by left-wing bullies should disqualify him from further service in the Trump administration.
A leader who doesn’t command or demand respect won’t be one for long. A leader who doesn’t defend himself will soon lose defenders.
Hope the President is looking for Cohn’s replacement.
and NOT Goldman Sachs
Too many of these morons read the NY Times and think it is news.
Wake up!
Amen to that.
Antifa domestic terrorists are not gentle strewers of flowers.
Wasn’t Cohn frequently a participant in The Apprentice? If it’s the same guy, he was totally subordinate to Trump at that time. What changed him?
We have to get some unity in the White House and all these people think they are the President and their opinion count for something.
It is foolish to second guess Trump's choices or actions or words. If you want still what we elected him for then support the man. He is our last line of defense against Leviathan. Read the Treehouse piece, then contemplate why Cohn.
Cohn has no loyalty to the President and is not there for loyalty’s sake.
The author is no fan of Trump. He raged against him all the through the primaries and general election.
If Cohn would have been alive during the Civil War, he and his Goldman Sachs buddies would have been making big bucks on the slave trade, sort of like Judah Benjamin the Confederate Secretary of State.
You had two sets of people who showed up to protest. One, older traditionalist Democrats who wanted to respect their history, and the other, younger Democrats who are ashamed of that history and want to cleanse and erase it.
And then you had two sets of troublemakers who showed up, and they hijacked the protest.
The “good people” on both sides of the protest got forgotten and only the thugs on both sides are remembered. This was a cage match organized and planned. They made sure both groups of thugs would be on hand, they forced them toward one another and they removed the police cordon separating them. Someone was bound to get hurt, and its not surprising someone got killed. But from a propaganda standpoint, for the propagandists, this was golden.
I’m a Republican and I want all the statues of Confederates to stay just as they are.
No, Chief of Staff Gen Kelly should fire Cohn and also find a good economic advisor. Earn your rations Marine!
Cohn was never a participant on the Apprentice. He was president of Goldman Sachs.
You’re right, my mistake. It was George Ross that I was thinking of.
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