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Should Mitch Resign? Photo of McConnell in Front of a Confederate Flag Resurfaces Amid Northam Controversy

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Mod: There isn't much doubt that Northam needs to hang it up. But what about Mitch"Rebel Yell"McConnell?  

Photo of Mitch McConnell in Front of a Confederate Flag Resurfaces Amid Northam Yearbook Controversy(Time Magazinelink): In the midst of the ongoing controversy over a racist photograph on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook page, a photograph of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) posing in front of a Confederate flag is making the rounds on social media. The photograph of McConnell, which apparently shows the senator posing in front of a large Confederate flag, had previously surfaced in 2015, according to Snopes. The photo was allegedly taken at a Sons of Confederate Veterans event in the early ’90s.

Following the revelation of the racist yearbook photograph, Democratic Gov. Northam has refused to step down despite facing mounting pressure to resign. The photograph in question shows one person apparently wearing blackface posing with a person dressed in KKK robes. The governor initially apologized on Friday for appearing in the photo, before denying that he was either figure in the photograph in a news conference on Saturday.

The photograph of McConnell has regained traction on social media in the past few days, in part spurned on by the controversy over Northam’s photograph. Some users on Twitter cited the photograph as an example of Republican hypocrisy in condemning the Democratic governor’s alleged photograph while apparently being soft on racism within their own party.

House Democrats Are Trying to Save the Country From Tяump's Treason (PoliticusUSAlink): Democrats are now casting themselves as the party of national security since Donald Tяump cannot be trusted and is probably committing treason.

By cozying up to Vladimir Putin, and attacking U.S. intelligence agencies, Donald Tяump has proven that he cannot be trusted. He clearly cares about his personal business interests more than he cares about the security of the country he is sworn to protect. He has even attacked key U.S. allies. Last week Tяump made clear that he can’t be trusted when he called his intelligence leaders “passive and naive” after seeing media reports about their testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

CIA Director Gina Haspel and Direction of National Intelligence (DNI) Dan Coats expressed their disagreements with Tяump on several key foreign policy issues, such as North Korea, ISIS, Iran’s nuclear activities and Russia. This led Tяump to publicly attack them, which is unprecedented. These intelligence officials have great integrity and knowledge about what is really happening with our foreign enemies. They should be supported 100% by the president, not attacked. Yet Donald Tяump has a history of attacking the CIA and the FBI since becoming president. He does this in order to further his own political agenda.

In the past he has even said that believes what Putin says more than he believes his own intelligence agencies (especially on the topic of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election).

Tяump’s actions could be classified as as treasonous, and they strengthen the arguments of Democrats in Congress that they should now be acting as a check on Tяump’s power in the area of foreign policy.

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