Companies that backed Trump for years are facing a reckoning after the attack on the Capitol

[DonViejo]

Jan 09. 2021

By The Washington Post · Todd C. Frankel, Jeff Stein, Jena McGregor, Jonathan O'Connell · NATIONAL, BUSINESS, POLITICS

The bargain with the business world worked like this: They mostly tolerated President Donald Trump's sometimes outrageous behavior in exchange for business-friendly corporate tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks, deals they celebrated over Oval Office handshakes.

But that arrangement started to sour in the last year with the Trump's administration's missteps on the pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests before swiftly deteriorating in recent days with a mob assault on the Capitol prodded on by the president. That led the National Association of Manufacturers - comprised of exactly the kind of companies he considered key to his "Make America Great Again" mission - to call for Trump's immediate removal from office for actions by the pro-Trump mob described as "sedition.

"The message was not the typical corporate condemnation. It was something the trade group of 14,000 companies - which usually avoids politics - never before imagined issuing.

"It was a clear and present danger to our democracy," said Jay Timmons, the group's president. "And we couldn't stand for that. That transcended everything."

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[luv2fly]

1. But kids in cages?

They were okay with that.

[cally]

3. Thank you. I've

Been thinking of this all morning. Especially pressure on cable companies about Fox News propaganda