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Walmart’s C.E.O. Joins Group to Rebuke Trump Over Charlottesville
New York Times ^ | 8/15/2017 | Rachel Abrams and Michael Corkery

Posted on 08/15/2017 12:02:46 PM PDT by Alter Kaker

Walmart’s chief executive issued a strong rebuke of President Trump’s response to the protests that turned violent in Charlottesville, Va., saying the president “missed a critical opportunity to help bring our country together.”

The criticism came in a statement that the retailer’s chief executive, Doug McMillon, emailed to employees Monday evening, which was reviewed by The New York Times. The statement was later posted on a company website.

“As we watched the events and the response from President Trump over the weekend, we too felt that he missed a critical opportunity to help bring our country together by unequivocally rejecting the appalling actions of white supremacists,” he wrote.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boycott; charlottesville; corporateamerica; dougmcmillon; manufacturing; retail; trump; trumpeconomy; walmart
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To: Alter Kaker

... excuse me but something about this whole Charlottesville thing just doesn’t add up. Am I the only one that senses this — something’s not adding up. Things may not be what they seem. What’s the big push to label it terrorism — why not investigate and interrogate first?


41 posted on 08/15/2017 12:19:09 PM PDT by nightmarewhileawake
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To: Alter Kaker

These CEO’s are spineless cowards, they all disgust me.


42 posted on 08/15/2017 12:19:51 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: GnuThere
FYI

http://dcwhispers.com/breaking-charlotsville-unite-the-right-organizer-was-occupy-wall-st-activist-obama-supporter/#68rhLVk5u9ftH7bv.97

43 posted on 08/15/2017 12:20:54 PM PDT by Chgogal (Sessions recused himself for shaking an Ambassador's hand. Shameful!)
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To: madison10

The dirt bag Walmart CEO is on this Presidential jobs council. Rather than quit and risk enraging Trump voters (Walmart shoppers) he’s trying to have his cake and eat it to with this cheap shot statement at POTUS.


44 posted on 08/15/2017 12:21:19 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: nightmarewhileawake

It doesn’t add up because it was the SAME side fighting itself, but they didn’t bother to tell each side that they were the same side.

Eventually Leftists were going to be eating their own because they have factions that are on opposite ends of the Leftist line. The line then comes back and kills itself. Like a snake eating its own tail.


45 posted on 08/15/2017 12:22:33 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Alter Kaker

Businesses need to stay out of politics.


46 posted on 08/15/2017 12:22:44 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: DestroyLiberalism

If anything, Walmart used to have a decidedly conservative bend on political and social issues. Sam Walton must be spinning in his grave right about now.


This is why rather than quit he’s just taking a cheap shot. Hopefully, Trump will disinvite him and tell his staff not to pick up the phone when a Walmart lobbyist calls.


47 posted on 08/15/2017 12:23:06 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: nightmarewhileawake

If it implicates the right, we jump to conclusions. If it implicates the left, we have to study the facts ... and give time for the story to fade away.


48 posted on 08/15/2017 12:23:17 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Alter Kaker

The argument that Trump’s first statement was not enough due to a lack of specificity in not identifying white supremacists ignores the equally violent and intolerable Antifa element. The President’s first statement was the more accurate of the two. If he had merely made the second statement only it would have legitimized Antifa and what they see as morally superior position to be anarchists. What gives them the right to judge and act on that judgement extralegally?


49 posted on 08/15/2017 12:24:19 PM PDT by vigilence (Vigilence)
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To: Alter Kaker

Remember when Walmart rebuked Obummer for “unequivocally rejecting the appalling actions” of radical Islamic terror? Neither do I. All we got from Obummer was a lecture that we should “not to jump to conclusions”. Every terror attack included the scream of “Allahu Akbar”, but hey, let’s not jump to conclusions. Last time I shop at Walmart, not that I ever went there in the first place.


50 posted on 08/15/2017 12:24:41 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan taking office.)
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To: nightmarewhileawake

... p.s. Walmart is so passé — I don’t shop there now and definitely won’t in the future. Everything they touch is mediocre even Hayneedle, tish, tish, too bad.


51 posted on 08/15/2017 12:24:46 PM PDT by nightmarewhileawake
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To: VietVet876

I don’t think their business model includes working whites.


52 posted on 08/15/2017 12:26:22 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.)
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To: Major Matt Mason

WMT Corp Management:

http://corporate.walmart.com/our-story/leadership


53 posted on 08/15/2017 12:26:45 PM PDT by WeWaWes (When I look in the mirror I see an elephant—a bad ass elephant)
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To: Alter Kaker

What utter nonsense. Blaming Trump for everything. Never heard them complain when their stores got looted by BLM.


54 posted on 08/15/2017 12:27:27 PM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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To: Chgogal

Gaslighting traitors/actors/infiltrators out to sow discord, drama, and news footage for the MSM to foist upon the sheeple.
Mission accomplished, sadly.


55 posted on 08/15/2017 12:28:02 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Alter Kaker

I know many here already boycott Target, Sam’s Club, and Costco already. There are many others as well. Perhaps boycotts are not the answer? The list is long and if I stick to it I will have no place local to me for shopping. Transportation is an issue so local is important.


56 posted on 08/15/2017 12:28:11 PM PDT by pharmacopeia (All will be well and all will be well and every kind of thing shall be well. (Julian of Norwich))
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To: Alter Kaker

Thank you Lord, for Fred Meyer (Kroger). Amen.


57 posted on 08/15/2017 12:28:27 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: Alter Kaker

Obama says to his Supporters, they bring a Knife you bring a Gun, get in their faces and bitter clingers and not a peep.

Selective memory must run rampant in the Corporate World.


58 posted on 08/15/2017 12:28:31 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Alter Kaker

The country can only come together if whites get on their knees.


59 posted on 08/15/2017 12:28:43 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: nightmarewhileawake
why not investigate and interrogate first?

Maybe I shouldn't be, but I'm surprised at how little additional information has come out about the events that led up to the driver ramming into the crowd. There's more to it than what is seen on fifteen or twenty seconds of video.

60 posted on 08/15/2017 12:28:47 PM PDT by Will88
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