HUD/MEDIA: “A Housing and Urban Development official with strong ties to the President has apologized for calling a member of the press ‘Miss Piggy’ on Twitter Wednesday [1-24-18] night.
‘I hear #MissPiggys still on a rampage. Gee, I must’ve struck a nerve, @AprilDRyan! #BankruptBlogger,’ Lynne Patton, the HUD administrator for a region which encompasses New York and New Jersey, tweeted from her personal account on Wednesday.
The now-deleted tweet was aimed at April Ryan, the Washington bureau chief of American Urban Radio Networks who also is a CNN political analyst.
Later that evening, she said she deleted the tweet ‘by choice.’… The deleted tweet was part of a larger Twitter spat between the two that began on Tuesday. HUD did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.
Patton has had close ties to President Donald Trump and his family for years. Prior to HUD, she had worked with the Trumps since 2009, taking on roles with the Trump family and the Eric Trump Foundation. On the campaign trail, she assisted Trump with minority outreach and spoke at the Republican National Convention.”
-Maegan Vazquez, “HUD official apologizes for calling journalist ‘Miss Piggy’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Jan. 25, 2018 11:37am