Posted on 08/29/2020 7:43:21 AM PDT by Stravinsky
It started with an unexpected call last week from Lynne Patton, a longtime Trump associate who oversees federal housing programs in New York.
Ms. Patton told a leader of a tenants’ group at the New York City Housing Authority, the nation’s largest, that she was interested in speaking with residents about conditions in the authority’s buildings, which have long been in poor repair.
Four tenants soon assembled in front of a video camera and were interviewed for more than four hours by Ms. Patton herself. Three of the tenants were never told that their interviews would be edited into a two-minute video clip that would air prominently on Thursday night at the Republican National Convention and be used to bash Mayor Bill de Blasio, the three tenants said in interviews on Friday.
“I am not a Trump supporter,” said one of the tenants, Claudia Perez. “I am not a supporter of his racist policies on immigration. I am a first-generation Honduran. It was my people he was sending back.”
The episode represents another stark example of how President Trump has deployed government resources to further his political ambitions. Ms. Patton is head of the New York office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and under the Hatch Act is barred from using her government position to engage in political activities.
Throughout the convention, Mr. Trump has shattered the traditional boundaries between government and politics, and the video was aired on a night when the campaign took over the South Lawn of the White House, the first time that a major political convention has occurred there.
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Those rascally republicans...they tricked us!
Oh please!!!!
Cough cough BS, or HaHa up yours. Im fine with it either way.
NYT is going after the ones that were especially effective as is the rest of the MSM. They know the truth cannot get out under any circumstances.
LOL.
If this was a “set up” it wasn’t by our side. Sadly I actually wondered about this during the convention video.
More like a supporter suddenly being threatened for speaking out?
Claudia Perez....so she admits that she would have given different answers if she knew her statements would help or hurt Trump. So she’s willing to lie for political purposes.
“ With the way that the Old Gray Lady is hemorrhaging cash...”
I was staying at a hotel in a LA suburb last week. I wanted the crossword on Sunday. Nowhere to be found. Not the hotel not B&N nowhere. How do they stay in business?
Great idea featuring tatted up NY single moms instead of the GOP base. I’m sure she won’t make the MSM rounds now.
So they were interviewed in front of a video camera for 4 hours and they didn’t think that anyone would ever see it? Smart, very smart...
BS.As a documentary filmmaker I can tell you the FIRST thing you do before you turn on a camera is get SIGNED RELEASES from subjects.
So they didn’t mean what they actually said?
So they were lying, when they spoke about their conditions?
Or are they now intimidated into renouncing their statements?
The truth is the truth, whether you know ahead of time who will share that truth.
Either she likes her housing situation or she doesn’t. Is she willing to forego a better situation for the sake of party? Or is she interested in improving the lives of the people she works for, who pay her, who count on her?
Either she’s a sleezy dem or she’s an individual taking on a tough job. In the video a point made is that illegals take first dibs over people who’ve been waiting ten years. They hate Trump so much they don’t want to fix that?
Could be. These people are the inner city people who vote in Manhattan They, not the commuters, are who elect the mayor.
That’s what you have.
So a “first generation Honduran is pissed off . So what? How did dumb ass get into this country?
She could be near all her people and still live in squalor......seems like a wasted trip to come here.
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