Treasury secretary's wife apologizes for Instagram post, reply
Source: cnn
Updated 5:12 PM ET, Tue August 22, 2017
Mnuchin's wife mocks woman over wealth
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Treasury Sec. Steve Mnuchin's wife posted an image on Instagram
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(CNN)Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's wife Louise Linton apologized Tuesday after sustained backlash for a now-deleted Instagram post touting her wealth and her subsequent reply belittling a commenter.
"I apologize for my post on social media yesterday as well as my response. It was inappropriate and highly insensitive," Linton said in a statement from her publicist.
Monday's post began with a glamorous photo of Linton stepping off an official government plane on a trip to Kentucky with her husband, who was there to discuss tax reform with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and visit Fort Knox.
Dressed in all white and carrying a handbag and silk scarf, the Scottish-born actress and producer tagged a series of luxury designers, including Hermes, Roland Mouret, Tom Ford and Valentino.
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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/22/politics/louise-linton-steve-mnuchin-instagram/index.html
I give her credit for the apology.
Link to tweet
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Link to tweet
hlthe2b
(102,273 posts)I am sure the WH or Treasury PR people came down on her hard to do so. I don't give her credit after reading about her ugly ugly published book from her (short) time in Africa.
Laurian
(2,593 posts)I don't give two shits about her opinion or her apology.
She's no one I care to know or hear about.
haveahart
(905 posts)madaboutharry
(40,211 posts)JI7
(89,249 posts)She made up and wrote some book about being in africa which was full of racist shit.
Iggo
(47,552 posts)Oh jeez.
BumRushDaShow
(128,979 posts)As terrible as that sounds, it also appears large swathes of the memoir are completely fabricated, based more on stereotypes of Africa than any experience of Lintons.
Titled In Congos Shadow, the book details Lintons gap year in 1999 during the Second Congo War, and attracted criticism after a excerpt ran in The Telegraph in 2016. In the book, the blonde anomaly in darkest Africa describes in terrifying detail how she was almost raped a killed by machete-wielding Hutu rebels:
Gunshots echoed through to bush and seemed to be getting closer. I tried to face up to the possibility that my life was over, she writes in one passage. If I were discovered in my bolthole, I would be raped. I would be cut down. Smirking men with deadened eyes would brutalise me before casting me aside like a rag doll. Because I was a young white woman with a British passport I felt particularly vulnerable, the actress explains.
She also describes an orphan-girl with HIV a smiling gap-toothed child with HIV whose greatest joy was to sit on my lap and drink from a bottle of Coca-Cola that she cared for during these intense moments.
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And people wonder why some want to tear down Confederate flags and statues that commemorate abject racists. Drumpf has surrounded himself with these types. The WH is infested with them. The people of this nation have been infested with them too and we have seen them come out of their slime pits. And generations of them have passed on these stereotypes, many of them hatched in Europe, such as the nonsense that this idjit has spewed, throughout this nation's history.
mpcamb
(2,870 posts)3catwoman3
(23,985 posts)...to the really nasty, putrid, oozy stuff at the bottom.
badhair77
(4,218 posts)I love that - Putrid, oozy nastiness galore
not fooled
(5,801 posts)any woman who could marry a known predatory operator like munchkin has to have a few screws disengaged.
Same goes for iwanna and her slumlord gangster hubby.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)she did not apologize
ADX
(1,622 posts)...so as far as I'm concerned, she can kiss my ass...
PdxSean
(574 posts). . . I wouldn't want her lips anywhere near my ass.
ADX
(1,622 posts)...by the way, that's a great avatar you're using...
mahannah
(893 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Iggo
(47,552 posts)Actually. I'll give her a couple of bonus points for an actual apology instead of a non-apology apology.
Roy Rolling
(6,917 posts)Is she apologizing for being a spoiled, entitled parasite? Because that is her "offense". The fact she showed the whole world and embarrassed the president is what she apologized for, but not her attitude that remains.
hatrack
(59,585 posts)She's truly, deeply, profoundly sorry she revealed who she really is.
Fuck. Her.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Her husband's no prize, either.
usaf-vet
(6,186 posts)....... I won't do it!! I'm not apologizing to anyone.
Oh and by the way you pay more in taxes than those that work for a living. GOOD! Hopefully the day will come when you are paying 10 times what you pay now. And there will still be people who work 10 time harder than you and still pay more than their fair share.
Spoiled rotten greedy poor excuse for a human being.
Have a nice day!
TNNurse
(6,926 posts)unless you think it. Sorry there is no possibility of accepting this apology. We do not believe you.
JI7
(89,249 posts)Who post and show off their lifestyle to others.
Glad she has to put a check on that.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)there was an even funnier one earlier - couldn't find it
madaboutharry
(40,211 posts)actually is not true. It was about an insurance payment and the home wasn't foreclosed.
That said, Mr. and Mrs. Mnuchin are terrible people.
TygrBright
(20,760 posts)Skittles
(153,160 posts)that is who she is
elleng
(130,903 posts)LonePirate
(13,420 posts)Her statements are beyond the pale.
Afromania
(2,768 posts)you Trump voters and Republican faithful. Her reply is what she thinks of you and the rest of the Republican cabal thinks of you.
Hell, it's what she thinks of all of us really getting up going to work, paying our bills, just trying to survive while her husband puts people out of their homes. It doesn't bother me all that much because I already know they hate me out of hand.
Eh, shouldn't bother they'll never believe that the thieves they voted for hate them too. That's why we will never be able to get anything done.
paleotn
(17,913 posts)and shove the apology where the sun never shines. Reminds me of the old saying about silk purses and sow's ears.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Also, Jenni Miller (the woman who was basically "poor-shamed" for pointing out Linton's outrageous and disgusting "let them eat cake" behavior) was on Ari Melber today, promoting a go-fund-me-type charity she started for a friend who had a stroke recently (whose insurance refused to pay for recommended therapy). One of the guests, who happened to be Sherrod Brown's wife, commented that Ms. Miller acted more like a true public servant than Mnuchin's wife.
True Dough
(17,304 posts)Ever so classy!
tiptonic
(765 posts)Didn't he go to jail for his Wallstreet 'work'?