Trump 'Upscale' Event Planner Appointed to Oversee Low-Income Housing
LatestEric Trump’s wedding planner and former Vice President of the Eric Trump Foundation Lynne Patton has been appointed to run the region of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) which covers New York and New Jersey, the New York Daily News reports. She has no experience in urban planning.
Here is what we do know about Lynne Patton:
- She planned Eric Trump’s wedding.
- She was the Trump Organization event organizer of “upscale events and celebrity golf tournaments,” PR, and fundraising.
- She was an advisor to the Trump campaign.
- Her only “featured skills” are event planning, public relations, fundraising, philanthropy, and promotions.
- She helped run the Eric Trump Foundation, which is under investigation for siphoning $1 million in donations for children with cancer back to the Trump Organization, via the golf charity events which she used to run…
- …of which she has said: “If we are guilty of anything, it is of trying to save too much money for the children of St. Jude” by operating “without a single paid employee” and “relying heavily on donated professional services.”
- Her LinkedIn lists “Yale” as an alma mater which “HUD officials couldn’t explain.”
- Her LinkedIn lists a juris doctor degree from the Quinnipiac University School of Law, which tells the New York Daily News that she only attended for two semesters–which she claims to have qualified by putting an “N/A” next to it.
Here are some things she’s tweeted: