Treasury Sec Steve Mnuchin Embarrasses Himself in Defending Trump on Racism and Anti-Semiticism

Are Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Really That Important to Him? 

The Treasury Secretary, who is very wealthy found himself amazed that he had to defend both Donald Trump the bigot and his decision to stay in the administration that openly encourages and supports those groups who hate Mnuchin because of his religion.

“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, who is Jewish, said in a statement released by the Treasury Department.

Mnuchin was reacting to an open letter from his Yale classmates urging him to leave the administration, urging him to recognize that there are more important things than increasing his own massive wealth by securing tax cuts for himself and others like him.

A letter signed by about 300 members of the Yale class of 1985 argued that it was Mnuchin's “moral obligation” to resign because Trump had “declared himself a sympathizer with groups whose values are antithetical to those values we consider fundamental to our sacred honor as Americans.”

For people like Mnuchin this is a time of testing.  By failing the test, by giving credibility to a President who views vicious neo-Nazis as peaceful citizens protesting the removal of a statue, who sees no problem with those same marchers yelling anti-Jewish slogans and filling the world with hate, by dong this Mnuchin fails the test.  He will have to live with that for the rest of his life, and he will soon fine that his hundreds of millions will not soothe the wounded psyche.