Merck CEO Resigns, Blames Racism: Trump Responds

The CEO of Merck, Kenneth Fraizer, tendered his resignation from President Trump’s American Manufacturing Council this week in response to Trump’s response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend.

Fraizer said, “I am resigning from the American Manufacturing Council. Our strength stems from diversity and the contributions of by men and women of different races, faiths, sexual orientations and political beliefs. Our leaders must honor our values by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred and group supremacy, which runs counter to the idea that all people are equal. As a matter of personal conscience, I must take a stand against intolerance and extremism.”

He later commented that he left the council as a direct response to Trump’s reaction to the violence.

The President responded with a tweet saying, “Now that Ken Frazier of Merck Pharma has resigned from President’s Manufacturing Council, he will have more time to LOWER RIPOFF DRUG PRICES!”

Since Trump’s response, the media, in complete lockstep has been saying that he didn’t decry the violence strongly enough, that he was not clear enough in his condemnation of what happened. They claim that his “vague statements” are a sign of his support for racism, white supremacy.

The pundits have been saying that Trump is supported by racists, that he knows he is supported by racists, and that he is unwilling to risk losing their support by disavowing racism.

For clarity, President Trump made the following statements on the day after the Charlottesville riots:

“Racism is evil and those that cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs – including the KKK, Neo-nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans …no matter the color of our skin, we all live under the same laws…”

This was just part of an impromptu statement made in response to the horrifying events in Charlottesville. Where Trump really seems to have gone wrong, in the eyes of the mainstream media, is when he said that the blame was shared by parties on both sides of the event.

The president correctly told reporters in the press conference that one group of people were protesting the removal of a statue of General Robert E. Lee. He told the reporters that those protesters were attacked by a group of “alt-left” protesters using clubs and mace. The deadly attack by motor vehicle- which resulted in the death of one young woman- was done as a response to the attacks coming from Antifa.

But it is not the first time this has happened, it’s only the first time that a death resulted from it. Antifa, what Trump is calling the Alt-Left has been staging assaults on conservative groups in public for months. The media says the violence is coming from the right. But this is patently false.

The events in Charlottesville followed the same pattern as many other similar events in recent months. First, a conservative group assembles to either listen to a speaker. Then Antifa appears with pepper spray, fire bombs, and spiked clubs. Then police withdraw from the scene. It is at that point that the Antifa crowds descend on their victims.

The media has reflexively and repeatedly said that the violence is going both ways. They are wrong, at best. But it would not be unfair to suppose that they are lying.

On Monday, Donald Trump was expected to deliver damning words about a group of people who initially showed up to protest the destruction of a historically relevant monument. But he took a more even handed approach and said that there was blame on both sides- and he is correct.

Despite the fact that the Alt-Left started the violence- driving a car into their ranks went way too far. No one should have to die for their political beliefs.

Trump’s mistake was not blaming the group whose interest was preventing today’s equivalent of a book burning. This has been an ongoing issue in the American South for some time now. Flags are being banned, statues are being taken down and history is being revised. The people who are interested in not obscuring the events of the past are being called racists, bigots, and white supremacists.

This is what the left does. It uses name calling and blanket statements to tar and feather its opponents. There is nothing new, honest, or honorable about it.

We live in a world where the media praises a Major CEO for resigning from a White House council, calling the President racist after the president publicly declares that: “Racism is evil and those that cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs…”

This is madness.

~ American Liberty Report


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