Summers Steps Up Criticism of Trump by Urging CEOs to Speak Out

  • ‘Every American ought to be deeply concerned,’ he says
  • Stock rally a ‘sugar high,’ Trump tax reform ‘very difficult’

Summers: 'Extraordinary' If Trump Intimidates Business

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Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said that American CEOs should speak out against Donald Trump’s policies, after the president signed an executive order Friday that restricted travel from seven Muslim-majority countries.

“Every American ought to be deeply concerned,” if Trump is intimidating American business leaders, Summers said during an interview Monday with David Westin on Bloomberg Television.