'We had an interesting nucleus of people when I was in the White House—the initial team,' Gary Cohn told David Axelrod in an interview. 'We were not bashful. It was a group that was willing to tell the president what he needed to know, whether he wanted to hear it or not.'
Gary Cohn, the former National Economic Council Director and chief economic adviser to President Donald Trump, said he fears the president is surrounded by staff who tell him only want he wants to hear.
"We had an interesting nucleus of people when I was in the White House—the initial team," Cohn told Axelrod in his Monday podcast"We were not bashful. It was a group that was willing to tell the president what he needed to know, whether he wanted to hear it or not. "In typical Donald Trump fashion—and this is something you sort of admire about him—about an hour into the meeting, he literally turned to me and said, 'You're going to come to work for me,'" Cohn said.
"But those were the sort of lynchpins of his candidacy. You knew that going in, right?" asked Alexrod. Eventually, he submitted his resignation over Trump's comments on the 2017 Charlottesville protests, but the president convinced him to stay. At the time, Trump blamed"both sides" for the conflict, but one side included self-proclaimed white nationalists, one of which intentionally ran over and killed a counter-protester.
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