President Trump chooses inexperienced woman who planned his son Eric's wedding to run N.Y. federal h
Source: NY Daily News
"President Trump chooses inexperienced woman who planned his son Eric's wedding to run N.Y. federal housing programs"
Shes arranged tournaments at Trump golf courses, served as the liaison to the Trump family during his presidential campaign, and even arranged Eric Trumps wedding.
Now President Trump has appointed longtime loyalist Lynne Patton who has zero housing experience and claims a law degree the school says she never earned to run the office that oversees federal housing programs in New York.
Patton was appointed Wednesday to head up the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Developments Region II, which includes New York and New Jersey, where shell oversee distribution of billions of taxpayer dollars.
Pattons tight relationship with the Trump clan dates back to 2009, when she began serving as the familys event planner.
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Note to mods -- I am not quoting too much from this article. I've put the full title in quotes at the top because so little of it fit into the subject line.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)She must've given them a cut rate on the wedding.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)as most others placed into office by this administration. Maybe they keep her around, to plan his next two weddings?
pangaia
(24,324 posts)including shrub.
christx30
(6,241 posts)amazingly competent by comparison.
"Let's get this wedding planner with a possibly fictional law degree..." Ugh. Just... ugh. Trump is amazing. Just when I think he's at the bottom, he finds a way of digging.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Trump crime family sees the US Federal Government as their own personal slush fund.
FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)That's why he's appointing her, I'll bet.
Eric ran the fundraisers for the Cancer Kids and donated all the proceeds. Then after about 5 years Trump started taking a cut of the money and it was the same time this lady was running them. I think I see a connection, but I can't be sure.
Let's get Robert Mueller to look into this.
Marthe48
(17,019 posts)can anyone put the brakes on the train? Although it has already wrecked all to hell.
Ms. Toad
(34,087 posts)running public housing. (in case it's necessary)
riversedge
(70,299 posts)that will work out.
KentuckyWoman
(6,692 posts)public housing is real estate.
Which means government contracts to landscapers, contractors, management companies blah blah blah...
You know the people Herr Hair owes money to....
Kick the poor people out, fix it up, rent or sell the spaces.... Voila..... Problem solved. No more poor people in the area... we were able to get 1000's of people off public housing.
Everything about this band of predators sickens me.
brer cat
(24,605 posts)but she will give them a heck of a going away party!
riversedge
(70,299 posts)Oh my my!! She can't even help fun a charity.
Responsible for organizing, executing and assisting with upscale events and celebrity golf tournaments, her LinkedIn profile says. Handle celebrity talent acquisition for various marketing projects, philanthropic events and golf tournaments.
From 2011 through January, she also helped run the Eric Trump Foundation, a charity that's now under investigation by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)somewhere else after he has conned and robbed us as much as he can.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)and set himself up as King.
Shell_Seas
(3,335 posts)He's already the King of America.
atreides1
(16,093 posts)Trump is seeing how far they allow him to go, and they've given him free reign to do what he wants...as long as they get him to sign off on the destruction of every social program in the US!
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)She also claims ... to have obtained a juris doctorate degree in 2000 from Quinnipiac University School of Law in Connecticut.
Next to the J.D. notation is written (N/A) without explanation.
She also listed Yale University but HUD officials couldnt explain why that was there.
IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)lie about everything, then lie some more. They're just alt facts anyway
Igel
(35,356 posts)1998-2000 is two years. 1998-1999, 1999-2000.
Her bio says two years. I have to assume the "JD (N/A)" translates into "juris doctor not applicable." In other words, not claiming to have the JD. Unless she edited her LinkIn account ... but then all the other information is still there. I can see how the Daily News thought there was a claim, but it really relies on just one source. Even a keyboard jockey like me checked more sources, and I'm just posting on a discussion board without claiming to be doing investigative reporting.
There are real questions, things like why is it she's now been VP since 2011, but nobody remembers her being a VP in 2014 or earlier?
rickford66
(5,528 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)He thinks all black people belong in the projects.
enid602
(8,652 posts)Well, you have to admit, someone who can marry off the likes of Eric must have some talents. I wonder if she took this post in lieu of payment.
Freethinker65
(10,048 posts)She will do to housing in NY what Betsy DeVos is doing to education nationally...take out the money to distribute to the wealthy. In a few years, once the coffers run dry, they can just shut down both departments (Education and Housing) for gross mismanagement and for the "good of the country" return them to the states with a fraction of current funding.
underpants
(182,879 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Makes it easier for the Republican party and their "political charities" to move their policies in position when the (R)otten president and his "admin" don't have the ability to even notice.
The bonus is, trump doesn't even read what he signs and none of his "aides" even understand enough to explain it to him.
MBS
(9,688 posts)brooklynite
(94,727 posts)Do you know how hard it is to find a HUD Deputy that's not going to outshine Secretary Ben Carson?
Vinca
(50,303 posts)hadEnuf
(2,212 posts)She probably reads from a teleprompter too!
riversedge
(70,299 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,601 posts)Maybe this administration isn't the well-oiled machine we were promised.
By JOE PATRICE
at 10:51 AM
When Donald Trump decided to put his kids wedding planner in charge of low-income housing for New York and New Jersey vesting her with responsibility for billions of dollars and the well-being of thousands based on her ability to pick a centerpiece her defenders were quick to point to her law degree as proof of her basic level of competence for the task.
Her law school says she doesnt have that degree.
Lynne Patton handled event planning for the Trumps for almost eight years, organizing everything from celebrity golf tournaments to slightly bigger celebrity golf tournaments. And she put together Eric Trumps wedding! She also claims, on LinkedIn, a J.D. from the Quinnipiac University School of Law:
Hey, theres a little N/A there. I wonder what thats for?
{snip the rest, because maybe you're eating lunch, and you can't take one more minute of....}
And while we're at it, what happened at Yale?
FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)She kind of looks like one of those lunch ladies. If she wore a hairnet I'd know for sure.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,601 posts)FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)Just as good.
tbbnf
(12 posts)Banana Republic...
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)This one's not hard to figure out. Honestly, using a HUD job as a hush money bribe is impeachable on its own.