HUD Official Lynne Patton: Trump ‘Sees Success,’ Not Color Or Race

Fighting back against accusations from President Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen, who testified before Congress on Wednesday to having witnessed the president make racist comments in private, HUD official Lynne Patton said that “the president judges people only by their skills and nothing else.”

Speaking on “Fox & Friends” this Thursday, Patton said that President Trump “does not see color, race, creed, religion.”

“What he sees is success and failure, and whether that manifests itself as a person, a place, a property, a restaurant, a TV show, a policy, a country, a community — he makes no differentiation,” Patton told hosts Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade, according to HuffPost. “That’s what makes people uncomfortable is that he doesn’t care what people think and he’s going to tell it like it is.”

Lynne Patton previously worked as an event planner for the Trump family before being installed as the Department of Urban Development’s New York/New Jersey regional administrator. Her appearance at Cohen’s testimony on Wednesday had people on social media suggesting the Trump administration wanted to use her as a prop to rebut his claims of racism.

Responding to the backlash of Patton’s presence at Cohen’s hearing, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) said Patton told him that, “as a daughter of a man born in Birmingham, Alabama … there is no way that she would work for an individual who was a racist.”

Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-MI) said that the notion that Mark Meadows could be using her as a prop is an insult to black Americans. “I can only imagine what’s being said in private,” Lawrence said of the President. “And to prop up one member of our entire race of black people and say that that nullifies that is truly insulting.”

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) echoed Lawrence’s hit against Meadows on Wednesday, saying “just because someone has a person of color, a black person, working for them does not mean they aren’t racist, and it is insensitive that some would even say, the fact that someone would actually use a prop, a black woman in this chamber, in this committee, is alone racist in itself.”

Patton said on “Fox & Friends” Thursday morning that people should not believe the word of a “self-confessed perjurer and criminally convicted white man” over a “black female who’s highly educated, rose up through the ranks of one of the most competitve companies in real estate, spoke before 25 million at the Republican National Convention, and now works in one of the most historic administrations in history.”

“That would be my question. That’s more racist than being put up there as a prop,” she concluded.

Patton told reporter Yamiche Alcindor after the hearing that she felt comfortable defending Trump, saying he “doesn’t see color, sex, race, creed, religion, so that’s what makes things go uncomfortable for other people.”

“Trump has time and time again done so much for the black community and I’m proud to be a part of it,” she said.

But some of Trump’s biggest detractors have actually previously praised him for his work with the black community when he was a celebrity.

Back in 1998 and 1999, Trump worked with Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH coalition to help offer a way to get black Americans into corporate America and improve their communities through building projects and jobs. Jackson praised Trump’s savvy business acument not once, but twice.

“We need your building skills, your gusto, your [unintelligible] for people on Wall Street to represent diversity, and we thank you for coming tonight. Let’s give Donald Trump a big hand,” Jackson said at an event that was captured by C-SPAN cameras.

At another event a year later, Jackson introduced his “friend” and thanked Trump for giving blacks a “face” on Wall Street.

“When we opened this Wall Street project and we talked about it, you gave us face at 40 Wall Street, which was to make a statement about our having a presence there,” said Jackson. “Beyond that, in terms of reaching out and being inclusive, he’s done that, too.”

Jackson also applauded Trump’s “will to make things better” for the “underserved communities.” In addition, Jackson thanked Trump for meeting with him in 1984 and in 1988, when he ran for president.

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