Steve Mnuchin’s Yale classmates pressuring him to resign over Trump’s Charlottesville comments

Members of the Yale class of 1985 wrote an open letter 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 reads. “President Trump made those declarations loudly, clearly, and unequivocally, and he said them as you stood next to him.”

The letter notes that numerous graduates of Yale have served as presidents, Cabinet members and in other public roles of varying political viewpoints, but rarely have they requested a classmate to step down.

Mnuchin’s classmates wrote it doesn’t matter whether someone is a Republican, Democrat or has other political beliefs, “but we cannot be 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,” the letter continues.

The letter ends with another call for Mnuchin to step down.

“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.”

Mnuchin, who is Jewish, was standing by Trump in Trump Tower during a press conference earlier this week when the president blamed white supremacists and counter-protesters for the violence in Charlottesville.