Kenneth Frazier is the CEO of the Merck pharmaceutical company and was until Monday a member of a group called the President’s American Manufacturing Council. Frazier, who is black, resigned from the council Monday morning in a statement that alluded to Donald Trump’s already-infamous claim that “many sides” were responsible for the deadly violence that broke out at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday.
Trump responded in less than an hour with an attack unrelated to the issue at hand:
Leadership!
