Gary Cohn, the White House chief economic adviser who always looks like a Wayne Industries board member trying to wrest control of the company from Christian Bale and Morgan Freeman, plans to resign from his position in the Trump administration "sometime in the coming weeks," says The New York Times.

“Gary has been my chief economic adviser and did a superb job in driving our agenda, helping to deliver historic tax cuts and reforms and unleashing the American economy once again,” Mr. Trump said in a statement to The New York Times. “He is a rare talent, and I thank him for his dedicated service to the American people.”

While the story's sources stated that "no single factor" prompted this decision, he was reportedly a vocal opponent of the president's harebrained steel and aluminum tariffs, and people close to Cohn made very clear to reporters immediately after the announcement that he was quietly furious with it. From Politico:

One person close to Cohn, a former Goldman Sachs executive, said he wouldn’t be surprised if he eventually left the chaotic and deeply exhausting administration as a result of the decision. A second person close to Cohn described it as a brutal blow that violated one of the NEC director’s core beliefs—that protectionism is economically backward and won’t lead to increased prosperity.

“It’s just something he feels very passionate about and he is incredibly good at making the case,” this person said.

If this refrain sounds vaguely familiar, it is because Cohn, who is Jewish, also threatened to quit after Trump blamed "both sides" for last summer's violence in Charlottesville and claimed there were "very fine people" among the murderous white supremacists responsible for Heather Heyer's death. However, after agonizing over the decision for more than a week and even drafting a resignation letter, according to the Times, he settled for giving an interview in which he opined that his employer "can and should do better" in the future. Economic policy disagreements, it seems, pushed Cohn's conscience to a breaking point in a way that an inexplicable failure to condemn neo-Nazis simply couldn't.

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Cohn becomes the latest high-profile Washington personality to momentarily rediscover his spine in response to the tariffs. He also joins the likes of Hope Hicks, Sean Spicer, Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus, Rob Porter, Omarosa, Tom Price, Seb Gorka, and someone named "the Mooch" on the list of White House officials to exit in various degrees of disgrace over the administration's first thirteen-plus months. Check back in on this space next winter, when its only remaining inhabitants are Donald Trump, Ivanka, Jared Kushner, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the last few remaining scraps of John Kelly's dignity, and whichever one of Mike Pence's horcruxes he managed to hide the best.

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