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Steven Mnuchin fires defiant message back at Yale classmates pressuring him to resign over Trump's Charlottesville comments"While I find it hard to believe I should have to defend myself on this, or the president, I feel compelled to let you know that the president in no way, shape or form, believes that neo-Nazi and other hate groups who endorse violence are equivalent to groups that demonstrate in peaceful and lawful ways," Mnuchin said in a statement.
Members of the Yale class of 1985 wrote an open letter on Friday calling on Mnuchin to resign from the Treasury "immediately."
"We do so today because President Trump has declared himself a sympathizer with groups whose values are antithetical to those values we consider fundamental to our sacred honor as Americans, as men and women of Yale, and as decent human beings," the letter read. "President Trump made those declarations loudly, clearly, and unequivocally, and he said them as you stood next to him."
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/steven-mnuchin-fires-defiant-message-back-at-yale-classmates-pressuring-him-to-resign-over-trumps-charlottesville-comments/article/2632061
ck4829
(35,096 posts)spanone
(135,924 posts)Cicada
(4,533 posts)300 to one isn't a bad ratio. Conservatives hate places like Yale because they are so heavily tilted progressive.
As grad Cole Porter wrote: bulldog, bulldog, bow wow wow!
ck4829
(35,096 posts)I'm not a Yale student or alumni, that's what this is rooted in.
joshdawg
(2,653 posts)The school is good, munchkin is just dumb.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)Along with Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and Gary Cohn.
Disgusting and shame on all them....they assist and are accomplices...
I hope their Rabbis and synagogues shun them....
oasis
(49,480 posts)not fooled
(5,805 posts)in order to kick tens of thousands of homeowners out of their homes, and steal said houses...additional unpleasantries that apparently are A-OK for Yale grads to do.
uponit7771
(90,371 posts)sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)I'm actually surprised. I could see Mnuchin saying "It is important to support the president and our government."
But it is clear that the president is a racist and supports white nationalist racists. It's clear his White House tolerates holocaust denial and white supremacy. Why is Mnuchin lying so shamelessly about it?
Flat lie. Several tweets and statements this week contradict that. Stop lying, Steve.
DeminPennswoods
(15,294 posts)Today he's a white nationalist sympathizer, tomorrow he might love liberals. He has no strategic vision beyond what his "instincts" tell him to do in the moment. In that way, he's like a person with severe short term memory loss - there's no yesterday, no today, no tomorrow, just the now.
benfranklin1776
(6,458 posts)As a Yale grad you should know better. The reason people know your tragic pathetic excuse of a human masquerading as the president is a racist klan loving Nazi is because he announced it to the world in his rant masquerading as a press conference.
What is unbelievable Steve is you are so craven for power and greedy for tax cuts for you and your fellow plutocrats that you will sacrifice any scrap of honor and decency you might have once possessed to continue to do his bidding like a good lackey.
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)yardwork
(61,772 posts)Steve just cut a hole in his network and fell through.
Lostnote
(75 posts)DFW
(54,502 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)President Trump "in no way, shape or form, believes that neo-Nazi and other hate groups who endorse violence are equivalent to groups that demonstrate in peaceful and lawful ways." Note the word "equivalent." It was chosen for a reason, because Trump believes his Nazi supporters are superior to other groups. The Nazis get it; they recognize a kindred spirit, and are drawn with great fervor to Trump's administration. Trump's Department of Justice is ending decades of civil rights work to stand with the Nazis.
turbinetree
(24,745 posts)and your own, and everyone that saw what he said.
Here is the 23 minutes of the sh*t coming out of his mouth, which you may have forgotten about, there zippy...........
have a nice day..................