Trust in major institutions, including big business, has fallen significantly since the late 1970s, Gallup data shows. While some companies stood by their pledge to halt campaign contributions to election deniers, many resumed donations within a year, according to a report from the nonpartisan Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. If elected, Trump has vowed to pursue perceived enemies, including in the Department of Justice, which is currently investigating him, and to go after familiar targets for Republicans, like President Joe Biden.Ĭorporate America, meanwhile, has largely receded from public comment on the issue of protecting federal elections. All the while, he has emerged as a formidable Republican frontrunner for the 2024 presidential election. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges on which he has been arraigned, and has denied wrongdoing in response to all related allegations. Many major companies also publicly promised to halt campaign donations to members of Congress who had voted against certification of the election results.Īs another presidential election nears, Trump continues to deny the outcome of the previous election and vows to vigorously fight scores of felony charges, including allegations in two separate indictments of an illegal attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election outcome.
On a follow-up conference call in mid-January, a survey of the CEOs in attendance showed nearly unanimous support for impeaching Trump, Sonnenfeld said. Weeks later, the Business Roundtable released another bulletin condemning the January 6 attack. The conference call was first reported by the Associated Press. into something other than the country it was," Tom Rogers, the founder of CNBC and a meeting participant, told ABC News. "There was recognition that if Trump pulled this off, it could turn the U.S. Sonnenfeld and other meeting attendees declined to identify the CEOs who participated in the call, since they did so on condition of anonymity.
Hastily assembled, some of the chief executives showed up to the early-morning call in pajamas and most expressed grave concerns, he added. "The CEOs were horrified," Yale University Professor of Management Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, who convened the meeting, told ABC News. The night before, then-President Donald Trump had falsely declared victory in an address at the White House, pointing to a count of what he called "legal votes." Three days after Election Night 2020, dozens of CEOs from the nation's largest companies logged into a Zoom call aiming to prevent the collapse of American democracy, according to several attendees who spoke to ABC News.
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