Icahn is out. Democrats had been pressuring him for some time regarding his ability to profit personally off the advice he was giving Trump, but evidently this week seemed like a good time for him to get the hell off the sinking Nazi ship. It just wasn’t worth the potential profits, evidently.
Carl Icahn announced Friday that he is stepping down from his role as special advisor to President Donald Trump on regulation…
The famed investor said he resigned from the role to avoid "partisan bickering" about his position. Icahn said he did not want that scrutiny to affect the Trump administration's work on regulatory reform.
Icahn also took the opportunity to again insist that he "never had a formal position with your administration nor a policymaking role." He reiterated that his advisory position did not give him access to nonpublic information.
Rats. Fleeing. Sinking ship.