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   From: kgb@clintonfoundation.org   
      
   Washington (CNN)National labor leader Richard Trumka said   
   Wednesday that some White House aides "turned out to be racist"   
   and said the Wall Street wing of President Donald Trump's   
   economic team is growing in influence.   
      
   "You had two factions in the White House," the AFL-CIO president   
   told reporters at a roundtable hosted by the Christian Science   
   Monitor and confirmed in audio provided by Trumka's office to   
   CNN. "You had one faction that actually had some of the policies   
   that we would have supported on trade and infrastructure but   
   turned out to be racist."   
      
   Trumka continued: "And on the other hand, you had people who   
   weren't racist, but they were Wall Street. And the Wall   
   Streeters began to dominate the administration and have moved   
   [Trump's] agenda back to everything he fought against in the   
   election."   
      
   The White House did not immediately return a request for comment.   
      
   Trumka said he left the White House manufacturing jobs council   
   after talking to union members who believed Trump's comments   
   following the attacks in Charlottesville, Virginia, were a   
   "spirited defense" of white supremacy.   
      
   Trumka was one of eight members who quit the council in early   
   August. Trump later dissolved the manufacturing council   
   altogether.   
      
   The President tweeted at the time: "Rather than putting pressure   
   on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy &   
   Policy Forum, I am ending both. Thank you all!"   
      
   http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/30/politics/richard-trumka-donald-   
   trump-aides/index.html   
      
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