J&J's Alex Gorsky re­vers­es course and jumps ship — just as Trump scut­tles top CEO groups

One day af­ter J&J CEO Alex Gorsky pub­licly com­mit­ted to stay­ing on Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s man­u­fac­tur­ing coun­cil, he abrupt­ly re­versed course — just as a sud­den ex­o­dus of ex­ec­u­tives forced the pres­i­dent’s hand and pushed him to dis­band two promi­nent ad­vi­so­ry com­mit­tees.

J&J an­nounced Wednes­day af­ter­noon that the pres­i­dent’s po­si­tion on the dead­ly Char­lottesville con­fronta­tion was un­ac­cept­able, adding that Gorsky was re­sign­ing with im­me­di­ate ef­fect. But as J&J was putting out their state­ment, Trump is­sued his on Twit­ter.

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