Trump HUD official apologizes for tweet mocking journalist

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

A top official in President Trump’s Department of Housing and Urban Development apologized Wednesday after mocking journalist April Ryan in a tweet.

In the since-deleted tweet, Lynne Patton, who heads the HUD region that encompasses New York and New Jersey, referred to Ryan as “Miss Piggy” and labeled her a “bankrupt blogger.”

Patton later deleted the tweet, saying it was “beneath me” and apologizing to Ryan.

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Patton posted the original tweet from her personal account after a series of other tweets slamming Ryan.

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Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/370626-trump-hud-official-apologizes-for-tweet-mocking-journalist

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Patton's tweet, shown thanks to a tweet from Jaqueline Alemany of CBS News:

Link to tweet

See the article for more of Patton's tweets, but especially for April Ryan's response to that "washed up wedding planner."

[Honeycombe8]

1. My guess is that Twitter intervened (name calling). That's a disgusting tweet.

Par for the course for a Trumper.

[TheDebbieDee]

4. Did she make these tweets on taxpayer's time?

[TheRealistRealist]

2. Unprofessional, immature, classless idiots

All of them

[RhodeIslandOne]

3. Isn't she the party planner?

Another incompetent, bigoted boob.

[Drunken Irishman]

5. She should resign - but then, our own president has called women piggies so...

[left-of-center2012]

6. From the link ...

"Patton was appointed to her role at HUD last June after previously serving as a longtime event planner for the Trump family."

A party planner, now a HUD official?

[mtngirl47]

7. What is wrong with these people?

It's like high school.

[maxrandb]

8. God! For the thousandth time

It's NOT what's wrong with these people... it's what's wrong with us!

They are who they are. WE put their asses in power.

The ONLY way to fix this is for US to remove them from power