Louise Linton Walks Back Her Comments, “Takes Ownership Of Her Mistakes”

A few weeks back we told you about how Louise Linton, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s wife, was being dragged for a social media post where she proudly put her wealth on display.

At the time, she hit her detractors back pretty hard:

Aw!!! Did you think this was a personal trip?! Adorable!” Linton wrote. “Do you think the US govt paid for our honeymoon or personal travel?! Lololol.

 

Have you given more to the economy than me and my husband? Either as an individual earner in taxes OR in self sacrifice to your country?

 

I’m pretty sure we paid more taxes toward our day ‘trip’ than you did. Pretty sure the amount we sacrifice per year is a lot more than you’d be willing to sacrifice if the choice was yours,” she added. “You’re adorably out of touch.

 

Thanks for the passive aggressive nasty comment. … Sending me passive aggressive comments isn’t going to make life feel better. Maybe a nice message, one filled with wisdom and humanity would get more traction.

She’s not wrong, but her tone certainly wasn’t winning her any points.

Well, she’s obviously realized that, because she’s walking it all back.

According to this:

The wife of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin deserved to get eviscerated for bragging about her fabulous lifestyle … according to her.

 

You’ll recall Louise Linton last month posted this photo on Instagram and littered it with hashtags of a bunch of high-end merch — “#rolandmouret pants #tomford sunnies #hermesscarf #valentinorockstudheels #valentino” … essentially telling people who don’t dress like her are pathetic losers.

 

Louise’s now taking it all back — from the initial post to how she handled the backlash from furious taxpayers. She told Washington Life, “I want to say I concede completely to the comments of my critics. My post itself and the following response were indefensible. Period. I don’t have any excuses, nor do I feel any self-pity for the backlash I experienced.”

 

Louise went on to say, “I sincerely take ownership of my mistake. It’s clear that I was the one who was truly out of touch and my response was reactionary and condescending.”

I respect her for this. Surely this is damage control, but her response was strong. “I don’t have any excuses, nor do I feel any self-pity for the backlash I experienced.” That’s awesome.

WAY better than the “I apologize for how I made people feeeeeel but I’m the victim here” garbage people usually spit out. Either own up to it, or don’t.

Do I think she NEEDED to apologize in the first place? Not to the initial post, but I do think she flew off the handle a bit with her response. It reeked of condescension. Not necessary. Keep it classy, Louise.

This, on the other hand, was good. I’ll take it.