But call a KKK grand dragon your mentor and you can run for president.
Posted on 01/04/2019 5:21:23 PM PST by blueplum
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie did not disclose his associations with Confederate groups on a questionnaire submitted to the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee prior to his confirmation hearing last year, according to a copy of the form obtained by CNN's KFile.
CNN's KFile reported in December that Wilkie, who was confirmed by the Senate as VA secretary in July 2018, gave a speech to a chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in 2009 and, in 1995, praised Confederate President Jefferson Davis in a speech at the US Capitol. Wilkie was also at one point a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, The Washington Post previously reported. …{snip}
"Whether the handful of events took place close to a decade ago or 15-20 years ago, Secretary Wilkie gave his best recollection of his participation in them, and emphasized that they were strictly historical in nature, almost all official and bipartisan, and he stopped participating in them once the issue became divisive. He was not aware that the remarks had been published, and, as he stated, he did not keep copies of the remarks," Cashour said. He continued, "Once again, the broad issue of his participation in the events based on his best recollection was addressed in depth at the Secretary's two Senate confirmation hearings for DoD and VA positions in 2017 and 2018...
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Seems to me CNN is treading down a dangerous road that would encompass most of the Southern Dem party.
KFILE is one of the slimiest of the slimy in the Democrat Media.
I can see it now. An Army general gets nominated to be the next Chief of Staff—and his nomination gets torpedoed when staffers for Senator Warren discover that he wrote a paper lauding the generalship of Robert E. Lee when he was West Point cadet.
Identity politics strikes again.
The folks who rail against racism in truth are the worst racists on the planet.
I’m beyond sick of these endless witch hunts.
The thing is congress declared the confederate soldier to be an American soldier. The Looney left. Next all the former confederate states will have to be occupied again.
KFILE is the little Nazi that was threatening to doxx the guy who did the Trump wrestling gif that set the Democrat Media off.
But call a KKK grand dragon your mentor and you can run for president.
I studied “Civil” war history in Elementary, Jr High and High school.
The High School name was Robert E. Lee High School.
The proglibs can buzz off.
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I can see the senate hearing now...
Are you now or have ever been a member of the Sons of the Confederacy?
Commies revenge for being outed in the 50s by the HUAC.
I stand with Robert Wilkie and so will DJT.
But if he was Grand Wizard of the KKK, and a Democrat, he’d get a pass. Like Senator Byrd.
He’s Veterans Secretary.
Democrat guilt by association. Like people care about what happened 150 years ago.
What’s wrong with giving a speech to a chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans?
And who in the world would think it was something to “disclose”?
Confederate veterans are, by law, United States veterans entitled to burial in National Cemeteries and for a government marker for their graves. The primary purpose for the Sons of Confederate Veterans since their founding has been to honor these veterans and to mark their graves whenever possible. Since Confederate soldiers were not entitled to burial in National Cemeteries until years after the end of the Civil War, there is much work to be done. Most of them lie in unknown and unlocated graves and will not be found even with today’s superior technology. One of the official Duties of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs is to see to the the United States Government obligations to these veterans just as he must do for all other U.S. veterans.
Democrats were for the Confederacy before they were against it.
I prayed at Robert E. Lee’s tomb. Does anyone know where I should turn myself in?
I have half-dozen kinfolk who served with the Virginians in the CSA. Two killed, one wounded with amputated leg, and one captured in one of the last battles. The living returned to their homes in SW Virginia and without them I would not be here. I guess in the liberal world, I am a pretty bad guy.
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