28 Aug 2020 8:44 pm
These are not the only people who were tricked into appearing at the RNC.N.Y.C. Tenants Say They Were Tricked Into Appearing in R.N.C. Video
“I am not a Trump supporter,” one of the tenants said, adding that she was furious that her interview with a government official was used for the convention.
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 said they 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.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/nyre ... trump.html
Two of the people who were naturalized at the WH, said they were not told that their naturalization ceremony would be shown at the RNC.
Lynne Patton, who now oversees federal housing programs in NY, and was formerly Eric Trump's wedding planner is another one of the many government employees who violated the Hatch Act.