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BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — A White House advisory council on infrastructure Thursday became the latest casualty of the pique of business leaders over President Donald Trump’s response to the violence in Charlottesville, Va. Two other outside corporate advisory groups were disbanded Wednesday after an exodus of leaders upset with Trump’s controversial statements about shared blame for last weekend’s violent protests involving white supremacists. On Thursday, the White House announced that the President’s Council on Infrastructure, which it said “was still being formed,” would not move forward, meeting the same fate as the Manufacturing Council and the Strategy & Policy Forum. After taking office, he tapped two real estate developers to head up a council aimed at guiding Trump’s promised $1 trillion infusion into infrastructure.