Merck CEO resigns from White House council to ‘take a stand against intolerance and extremism’ — then Trump slams him

WASHINGTON — The chief executive of pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. publicly resigned from a White House manufacturing council on Monday, declaring he felt “a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism.” The move by Kenneth Frazier, one of corporate America’s leading African American executives, came after President Donald Trump was criticized for not…