Did Mitch McConnell Pose in Front of a Large Confederate Flag?

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Did Mitch McConnell Pose in Front of a Large Confederate Flag?
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This photo has been circulating the internet since at least 2015.

as an example of Senator McConnell’s seemingly fluid attitude towards the Confederate flag:

While the SCV might be considered an organization whose use of the Confederate flag places it in an appropriately historical context, the group was the subject of someover a rift between those who wanted the SCV’s focus to remain about preserving history, and those who wanted to use it to “fight for the right to display Confederate symbols everywhere”:

And smack dab in the center of the controversy stands Kirk D. Lyons, a Black Mountain lawyer who gained prominence years ago for defending members of the Ku Klux Klan and other white-supremacist groups. That background attracted national media coverage of the heritage group’s internal strife.

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