HUD official Lynne Patton’s unusual appearance during Cohen's hearing was immediately panned by black politicians and journalists
By Tracy Jan Tracy Jan Reporter covering the intersection of race and the economy Email Bio Follow February 27 at 2:55 PM Something curious happened about 90 minutes into the Michael Cohen testimony which transfixed much of Washington Wednesday: a woman rose behind Congressman Mark Meadows as the North Carolina Republican grilled President Trump’s former fixer on his characterization of the president as a racist.
Patton, in an interview via text message during the hearing, said that she happened to be in Washington for HUD meetings when Meadows invited her late Tuesday night to attend the Cohen hearing as his “special guest.” She would sit behind him, in the seats normally reserved for Congressional staffers.Think about what Mark Meadows just did. He brought out a black woman who is loyal to President Trump to prove that President Trump is not racist.
During Trump’s presidential campaign, Patton had released a personal 5-minute video countering charges that her boss’s immigration platform was aligned with racist, hate mongering groups.Cohen, in his opening testimony, had called Trump a racist. While we were once driving through a struggling neighborhood in Chicago, he commented that only black people could live that way.Cohen later told Meadows to ask Patton “how many people who are black are executives at the Trump organization, and the answer is zero.”
Rep. Brenda Lawrence said during the hearing that she, as a black person, has “endured the public comments of racism from the sitting president.” Patton dismissed criticism that she’s being used because of her race. “Everyone keeps spinning it as ‘tokenism’ but in my mind, it’s just two people who know the President well and disagree,” she said. “Just one person’s word against another.”
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