Linton sparked anger in August 2017 with the above Instagram photo of herself leaving a government plane with Mnuchin. She hashtagged the names of the luxury clothing brands she was wearing and then attacked a mother of three from Oregon who’d commented on the post. “Have you given more to the economy than me and my husband?” Linton asked the woman. She later deleted the image and apologized for her “inappropriate and highly insensitive” reaction. In the LA Magazine interview, Linton blamed “some bad advice.” “My advisers at the time were telling me to be glamorous and fashionable. I was looking at actresses I admired, and they all tagged their clothes,” she claimed. “I should have realized that what’s good for movie stars doesn’t work for a Cabinet secretary’s wife.” Linton also addressed that November 2017 photograph of her and Mnuchin posing with sheets of cash at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, alleging she wore the handwear because it was cold inside the building.

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