Trump’s top economic official denounces his defense of white supremacists

Gary Cohn, the top White House economic official, is “distressed” over President Donald Trump’s failure to immediately condemn the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who incited violence in Charlottesville.

In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Cohn, who is Jewish, expressed his concern about the nature of the comments Trump made defending white supremacists. Cohn said Trump “can and must do better in consistently and unequivocally condemning these gr...