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We felt it was important for the committee to hear an account from someone not going to prison for lying to Congress, among other crimes,” Williamson tweeted.Ĭopyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. Voters uneasy about Biden and Trump 2024 candidacies, NBC News poll shows. Cohen and the Trump family for many years. “We invited Lynne in her personal capacity to offer her experiences as someone who has known both Mr. A birthday celebration for the nation is the type of event that can be described as quintessentially Trump: heavy on patriotic themes and state planning. Meadows spokesman Ben Williamson explained Patton’s invitation to the hearing in a tweet Wednesday afternoon. that there is no way that she would work for an individual who was a racist,” and asked Cohen how he would reconcile her recollections with his own.Ĭohen dodged the question, saying he should also not work for a racist “as the son of a Holocaust survivor.” “She says as a daughter of a man born in Birmingham, Ala. 8 at a nearby venue, according to a source familiar with the. She gave a speech at the Republican National Convention in 2016.Īfter Cohen described Trump as a racist in his testimony, Meadows introduced Patton and said she did not agree with him. Former President Donald Trumps campaign is planning another counterprogramming event around the third GOP debate in Miami on Nov. She said she believed Cohen was testifying to the panel to “try to get a reduced sentence.” Cohen is set to being a three-year sentence in May.īefore serving as regional administrator for HUD based in the New York area, Patton worked for the Trump organization in various roles, including as an event planner and the head of the Eric Trump Foundation. After a landslide win in the Iowa caucuses, the former President took a stage festooned with American. DES MOINES Donald Trump was conspicuously absent at a conservative Christian forum here, where his long-shot rivals for the Republican presidential nomination were asked how they could. Meadows sought to use Patton to show that Cohen was not telling the truth about racist speech he said the president had used.Ĭohen, who works at the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Department and said he has known Cohen and Trump for “10 plus” years, attended the highly-publicized hearing in her “personal capacity and on personal time.” “Michael Cohen knows I know the truth and the truth is that it doesn’t take 15 years to realize somebody is a racist, unless of course, they are not,” Patton, who is black, told Hill.TV in the hallway outside the House Oversight hearing room Wednesday. Lynne Patton, a longtime associate of President Trump now working for his administration, says her boss is not a racist and that Michael Cohen is lying about him.

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