The sacrifices that Gary Cohn has made … https://t.co/uZzRGJfyC5 pic.twitter.com/fJnrRMteDz
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) August 25, 2017
Gary Cohn is a shonda fur die Hamptons. https://t.co/AHKjyZKYYy
— Robert Mickey (@robmickey) August 25, 2017
"I am announcing that I am resigned. Not from the Trump administration, though. To it." https://t.co/h3iM9a4iLb
— Carlos Lozada (@CarlosLozadaWP) August 25, 2017
The Washington Post‘s Alexandra Petri is a very funny, and wise, woman:
… I can say it in no uncertain terms: Everything this administration does makes me sick.
I am absolutely disgusted with everything going on the White House right now. Several times daily, I must run out of a meeting of the National Economic Council to vomit into a wastepaper basket. (Sometimes, weeks later, I am chagrined to discover one of these papers being presented as a policy proposal.) This cannot go on any longer.
Everyone has told me that I should resign. Random members of the media. My wife. People whom I did not even realize knew my name.
I am under tremendous pressure. I have done everything I can. I have privately described myself off the record as sickened and appalled. What more do you want from me? An actual letter of resignation? Well, I have certainly drafted one. I can draft another. Really I can do anything with a letter of resignation other than send one…
How can anyone weigh these things? On the one hand, the president continually equates the KKK, white supremacists and neo-Nazis with those who protest against them. This is harmful and outrageous, and I have already denounced it in no uncertain terms, on background, to members of the media, through third parties!
But then, on the other hand, there is the theoretical possibility of passing tax reforms that might lower the base tax rate for corporations. They say, you can’t stand by while they attack your people and President Trump defends them. I say: Corporations are my people, too…
There is a reason I have let every media outlet know — secondhand — that I am “disgusted” and “frantically unhappy” and, at this moment, drafting a stern and strongly worded letter of resignation. Because I intend to do nothing. Also, I love drafting letters and never sending them. It is very cathartic. You get to feel as though you’ve made a beautifully worded statement of moral principle, but then in actual reality you haven’t…
At least Cohn can take solace in knowing he’s far from alone:
We asked 146 GOP officials about Trump's Charlottesville response. Just 7 were critical. My story w/ @elainejgodfrey https://t.co/1S7sZCUlok
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) August 24, 2017
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