The billionaire head of the world's largest alternative investment firm laid out how his business council, which advised the Trump administration, wound down in the wake of Charlottesville.
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Blackstone's Steve Schwarzman laid out how his business council, which advised the Trump administration, wound down in the wake of Charlottesville.
In his first public comments since Trump's corporate councils disbanded, Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman detailed the enormous backlash he faced.
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Schwarzman also disputed an account by the New York Times, which cited anonymous sources calling him outraged about Trump's remarks on Charlottesville.
"I wasn't outraged," Schwarzman said at the conference. "I don't know where the New York Times got that one."
Here's a summary of what Schwarzman said about leading the councils (emphasis added):
"What happened is, people who were running public companies at that time were concerned about employee reaction to what the president said or didn’t say. There were customer issues for those companies where the CEOs felt under pressure. There were shareholders that were unhappy. I asked each person what they wanted to do, I gave them one minute each. I wasn’t interested in anyone’s life history. People were under legitimately, astonishing pressure."
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