Over 300 of Steve Mnuchin’s Yale University Class of 1985 classmates signed a letter asking him to resign as Secretary of the Treasury in response to President Donald Trump’s comments on recent events in Charlottesville.
In part, the letter to Mnuchin said,
“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. “President Trump made those declarations loudly, clearly, and unequivocally, and he said them as you stood next to him.
"We call upon you, as our friend, our classmate, and as a fellow American, to resign in protest of President Trump’s support of Nazism and white supremacy. We know you are better than this, and we are counting on you to do the right thing.”
The class members are made up of different political persuasions but said they cannot condone Nazis and white supremacists. “We can disagree on the means of promoting the general welfare of the country, on the size and role of government, on the nature of freedom and security, but we cannot take the side of what we know to be evil.”
Matthew Countryman, one of Mnuchin's classmates, stated their letter had nothing to do with politics: "This is not a matter of the debt ceiling or the infrastructure project. This is a question of what kind of democracy, what kind of nation will we be, and whose side is [Mnuchin] on.”
By Bryan Logan
