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The Cleveland Clinic  — a hospital system with 215 locations in the US and abroad — cancelled plans to hold its 2018 Florida fundraising gala at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, a new report said Thursday.

“After careful consideration, Cleveland Clinic has decided that it will not hold a Florida fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago in 2018,” the hospital system said in a statement, according to Cleveland.com.

“We thank the staff of Mar-a-Lago for their service over the years.”

The Clinic and CEO Toby Cosgrove, had taken heat from employees and the public for continuing to hold the annual event at Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach club where they had gathered annually since 2011.

The exit came a day after Cosgrove and other top execs of some of the nation’s leading corporations disbanded a business advisory council that Trump had formed.
They said Trump’s incendiary comments on the violence in Charlottesville by neo-Nazis and KKK backers went against the values their organizations stood for.

Gloria Tavera, a Case Western Reserve University medical student who helped lead a petition drive to pressure the clinic to back out, told the website the clinic “should have had the courage to walk away” from Mar-a-Lago “long ago.”

The clinic at first balked. But, she added, “Charlottesville was the one that broke the camel’s back.

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