Steven Mnuchin fires defiant message back at Yale classmates pressuring him to resign

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Steven Mnuchin fires defiant message back at Yale classmates pressuring him to resign over Trump's Charlottesville comments

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin sent a defiant message Saturday to his more than 300 former Yale classmates who urged him to resign over President Trump's comments on the violence in Charlottesville, Va., telling the group that he stands by the president and won't back down.

"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."

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[ck4829]

1. Munchkin is contribuing to the image that Yale is the world's most expensive clown college

[spanone]

2. he has no shame.

[Cicada]

13. 300 non clowns asked one clown Mnuchin to resign

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]

14. Indeed they did, I need a snark smiley

I'm not a Yale student or alumni, that's what this is rooted in.

[joshdawg]

15. Doesn't appear he learned much at Yale.

The school is good, munchkin is just dumb.

[Pachamama]

3. Mnuchin is a dedicated member or "hilflinge" in the "Sonderkommando" of the Trump Administration

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]

4. "And please don't ask me about my boss being a climate denier".

[not fooled]

12. Or about committing mortgage document fraud

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]

5. Another enabler

[sharedvalues]

6. But this is a straight-up lie

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?

"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,"

Flat lie. Several tweets and statements this week contradict that. Stop lying, Steve.

[DeminPennswoods]

10. Trump has no core beliefs except in himself/immediate family

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]

7. Uh Steve you're engaged in revisionist history

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. Mnuchin is just another power hungry moneygrabbing ahole, its all about the money

[yardwork]

9. The whole point of going to Yale is to have a lifelong professional network.

Steve just cut a hole in his network and fell through.

[Lostnote]

19. LMAO!...NICE!

[DFW]

11. "And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak up for me...." n/t

[Honeycombe8]

16. I hope his career craters. nt

[gratuitous]

17. Read Mnuchin's words carefully; they were carefully crafted

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]

18. Hey. Mnuchin, you said yes to be on his "team" and, yes you are also accountable for his actions

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..................