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Cohn, however, had seen enough. He left to play golf, and over the next several days decided he had to resign. He went to Bedminster that weekend with a resignation letter in hand, although he did not give it to Trump, whom he found in the clubhouse, piling a plate high with food. Cohn asked if Trump had seen video of the Charlottesville march. “You have to understand that there’s no good people on that side,” Cohn said, referring to the part of Trump’s earlier statement that most offended him. “No, no, no, that’s not what happened,” Trump countered, insisting he had been taken out of context. Trump told Cohn to think about it and they would talk at the beginning of the week. Ivanka Trump reached out to Cohn privately, telling him that her father wasn’t a racist and echoing his claim that he’d been taken out of context. On Monday, Trump returned to work at the White House, and Cohn went to the Oval Office with his resignation letter. With Pence and Kelly looking on, along with his daughter, Trump appealed to Cohn not to quit his job over the issue. “I’ve got one major legislative agenda,” said Trump, sitting on the arm of a couch. “Without you, I’m not going to get tax reform.” And then, the hammer: “If you leave, you’re committing treason.” Trump, who plainly did not want to lose his top economic adviser, told Cohn he should feel free to publicly voice his disagreement, and encouraged him to go to the briefing-room podium and say whatever he needed to. “You’ll do the right thing,” Pence said, putting an arm around Cohn. Cohn said he would complete his efforts to pass a tax bill, which had been his passion throughout the year, and not stay much longer. “But you should assume I’m done,” Cohn said. He still had his resignation letter in hand, undelivered and unaccepted. As Cohn left the Oval Office, Kelly whispered to him, “If I were you I’d have shoved that paper up his fucking ass.” Trump was visited shortly thereafter by Ronald Lauder, a major philanthropist to Jewish causes whose friendship linked Trump to his prior life in New York. (The two men first met through Lauder’s mother, Estée, who had served as Trump’s social interlocutor for years.) Lauder urged Trump to take a different tone in speaking about the events in Charlottesville. Say you misspoke, he advised. Don’t go there, Trump replied angrily. • • •
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