GARY COHN/STEVE BANNON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House economic adviser Gary Cohn ‘absolutely’ should have resigned instead of voicing his objections to President Donald Trump’s response to a deadly white supremacist rally in Virginia last month from inside the administration, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said in an interview broadcast Thursday morning…
Bannon told CBS’ Charlie Rose that those working for Trump have an obligation to support him and that ‘when you side with a man, you side with him.’…
Cohn took the unusual step last month of voicing public criticism of Trump in the wake of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville that left a counterprotester dead. The president’s response, which included criticism of extremists ‘on both sides’ and a suggestion that there had been ‘very fine people’ marching among the white supremacist groups, was widely panned…
The next week, the president omitted Cohn’s name as he thanked a dozen Cabinet members, officials and lawmakers during a speech on tax reform in Missouri, although it was unclear whether the omission was an intentional dig. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said it was ‘pretty standard’ for Trump not to name-check White House staff members and that he had done so with Ivanka Trump only because she is his daughter.”
-Louis Nelson, “Bannon to Gary Cohn: Resign if you don’t like what Trump is doing,” Politico, Sept. 7, 2017 08:57am