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highplainsdem

(49,005 posts)
Thu Jun 15, 2017, 10:03 PM Jun 2017

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"

She’s arranged tournaments at Trump golf courses, served as the liaison to the Trump family during his presidential campaign, and even arranged Eric Trump’s 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 Development’s Region II, which includes New York and New Jersey, where she’ll oversee distribution of billions of taxpayer dollars.

Patton’s tight relationship with the Trump clan dates back to 2009, when she began serving as the family’s “event planner.”

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Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-chooses-family-event-planner-run-n-y-housing-programs-article-1.3251314



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.
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President Trump chooses inexperienced woman who planned his son Eric's wedding to run N.Y. federal h (Original Post) highplainsdem Jun 2017 OP
WTF DesertRat Jun 2017 #1
It's George W Bush all over again. "You're doing a heckuva job, Brownie." Honeycombe8 Jun 2017 #2
Just as experienced Scarsdale Jun 2017 #22
There is no way to compare this shit with ANY previous president.. pangaia Jun 2017 #28
This woman is going to make Brownie look christx30 Jun 2017 #32
How much you wanna bet Trump stiffed her for the wedding, offered her the job in lieu of payment flibbitygiblets Jun 2017 #3
Yeah she's the one who enabled Trump to take the money from the cancer kids FakeNoose Jun 2017 #34
In addition to investigating Marthe48 Jun 2017 #4
Oh look. She's brown. Let's put her with the other brown person Ms. Toad Jun 2017 #5
Trump events are high end events. Now she will be dealing with low income folks. wonder how riversedge Jun 2017 #6
Oh I know exactly KentuckyWoman Jun 2017 #18
Hey, she may kick out the poor people brer cat Jun 2017 #24
"From 2011 through January, she also helped run the Eric Trump Foundation, a charity that's now unde riversedge Jun 2017 #7
None of this is an accident he is purposely destroying this country. I think he plans to go live luvMIdog Jun 2017 #8
He'll buy an island ... left-of-center2012 Jun 2017 #9
He won't need to Shell_Seas Jun 2017 #25
He's testing the Republican leadership atreides1 Jun 2017 #19
From the linked article ... left-of-center2012 Jun 2017 #10
That's the first lesson from Trump University IronLionZion Jun 2017 #11
Everything seems to say 2 years law school. Igel Jun 2017 #14
Yawn .... rickford66 Jun 2017 #12
So he only appoints black people to run federal housing? SummerSnow Jun 2017 #13
Talent enid602 Jun 2017 #15
Perfect person to divert tax payer funds to for profit Trump development partners Freethinker65 Jun 2017 #16
Exactly what I was thinking underpants Jun 2017 #26
hundreds of positions to fill and Leadership Republicans still shun trump & not helping him at all! Sunlei Jun 2017 #17
Another day, another travesty.n/t MBS Jun 2017 #20
Why is this a concern? brooklynite Jun 2017 #21
A very good point. Maybe a wedding planner is perfect. LOL. Vinca Jun 2017 #23
B-b-but isn't that like a community organizer!1!1!1!1 hadEnuf Jun 2017 #27
k riversedge Jun 2017 #29
Trump Selects Law Grad For Housing Job Law School Says Shes Not A Law Grad mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2017 #30
Maybe she worked in the school cafeteria? FakeNoose Jun 2017 #36
I have a Harvard bed frame. So can I say that ...? NT mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2017 #37
Sure! I've got a lock with a Yale logo FakeNoose Jun 2017 #38
Can you say: tbbnf Jun 2017 #31
Scandal about the golf tournaments last week, now a sinecure for the golf tournament organizer alcibiades_mystery Jun 2017 #33
Perhaps she'll be kept busy retrofitting public housing with flammable cladding... Rollo Jun 2017 #35

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
2. It's George W Bush all over again. "You're doing a heckuva job, Brownie."
Thu Jun 15, 2017, 10:06 PM
Jun 2017

She must've given them a cut rate on the wedding.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
22. Just as experienced
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 07:21 AM
Jun 2017

as most others placed into office by this administration. Maybe they keep her around, to plan his next two weddings?

christx30

(6,241 posts)
32. This woman is going to make Brownie look
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 02:20 PM
Jun 2017

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)
3. How much you wanna bet Trump stiffed her for the wedding, offered her the job in lieu of payment
Thu Jun 15, 2017, 10:12 PM
Jun 2017

Trump crime family sees the US Federal Government as their own personal slush fund.

FakeNoose

(32,645 posts)
34. Yeah she's the one who enabled Trump to take the money from the cancer kids
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 02:44 PM
Jun 2017

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

(16,975 posts)
4. In addition to investigating
Thu Jun 15, 2017, 10:16 PM
Jun 2017

can anyone put the brakes on the train? Although it has already wrecked all to hell.

Ms. Toad

(34,076 posts)
5. Oh look. She's brown. Let's put her with the other brown person
Thu Jun 15, 2017, 10:29 PM
Jun 2017

running public housing. (in case it's necessary)

riversedge

(70,243 posts)
6. Trump events are high end events. Now she will be dealing with low income folks. wonder how
Thu Jun 15, 2017, 10:34 PM
Jun 2017

that will work out.


KentuckyWoman

(6,688 posts)
18. Oh I know exactly
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 12:17 AM
Jun 2017

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.

riversedge

(70,243 posts)
7. "From 2011 through January, she also helped run the Eric Trump Foundation, a charity that's now unde
Thu Jun 15, 2017, 10:36 PM
Jun 2017

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)
8. None of this is an accident he is purposely destroying this country. I think he plans to go live
Thu Jun 15, 2017, 10:41 PM
Jun 2017

somewhere else after he has conned and robbed us as much as he can.

atreides1

(16,079 posts)
19. He's testing the Republican leadership
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 05:01 AM
Jun 2017

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)
10. From the linked article ...
Thu Jun 15, 2017, 10:48 PM
Jun 2017

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 couldn’t explain why that was there.

IronLionZion

(45,460 posts)
11. That's the first lesson from Trump University
Thu Jun 15, 2017, 11:01 PM
Jun 2017

lie about everything, then lie some more. They're just alt facts anyway

Igel

(35,320 posts)
14. Everything seems to say 2 years law school.
Thu Jun 15, 2017, 11:11 PM
Jun 2017

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?

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
13. So he only appoints black people to run federal housing?
Thu Jun 15, 2017, 11:11 PM
Jun 2017

He thinks all black people belong in the projects.

enid602

(8,620 posts)
15. Talent
Thu Jun 15, 2017, 11:29 PM
Jun 2017

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

(10,024 posts)
16. Perfect person to divert tax payer funds to for profit Trump development partners
Thu Jun 15, 2017, 11:37 PM
Jun 2017

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.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
17. hundreds of positions to fill and Leadership Republicans still shun trump & not helping him at all!
Thu Jun 15, 2017, 11:43 PM
Jun 2017

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.

brooklynite

(94,602 posts)
21. Why is this a concern?
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 07:17 AM
Jun 2017

Do you know how hard it is to find a HUD Deputy that's not going to outshine Secretary Ben Carson?

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,504 posts)
30. Trump Selects Law Grad For Housing Job Law School Says Shes Not A Law Grad
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 01:40 PM
Jun 2017
Trump Selects Law Grad For Housing Job — Law School Says She’s Not A Law Grad

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 kid’s 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 doesn’t 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 Trump’s wedding! She also claims, on LinkedIn, a J.D. from the Quinnipiac University School of Law:



Hey, there’s a little “N/A” there. I wonder what that’s 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

(32,645 posts)
36. Maybe she worked in the school cafeteria?
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 02:47 PM
Jun 2017

She kind of looks like one of those lunch ladies. If she wore a hairnet I'd know for sure.




 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
33. Scandal about the golf tournaments last week, now a sinecure for the golf tournament organizer
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 02:27 PM
Jun 2017

This one's not hard to figure out. Honestly, using a HUD job as a hush money bribe is impeachable on its own.

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