Reuters reports:
The wife of U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Tuesday apologized for sniping at a critic on social media site Instagram who called her “deplorable” for a post highlighting her expensive clothing as she exited a government plane.
The flap erupted after Mnuchin’s wife, Scottish-born actress Louise Linton, posted a photo of herself emerging from the aircraft wearing a white outfit and sunglasses, using the hashtags “#tomford,” “#hermesscarf” and “#valentino,” according to images of the Monday evening post on social media.
In her initially vitriolic response to the “deplorable” criticism, Linton had lashed out about how much she and her husband contribute to the economy and pay in taxes. On Tuesday, she scrolled back. “I apologize for my post on social media yesterday as well as my response. It was inappropriate and highly insensitive,” Linton said in a statement released through a publicist.
Yes it's true, Louise Linton once played Marie Antoinette. https://t.co/MuOMX12VLm pic.twitter.com/rUhVZLUp7N
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) August 22, 2017
This broad lied about helping HIV orphans in Africa then wrote a book about. Klassy with a Kapital K. https://t.co/RX5xPQGpPL
— Darlene (@Deez_79) August 22, 2017
#LouiseLinton's Zambia book “the dumbest, most egregious piece of writing on Africa of the 21st century.” https://t.co/gJ2Ln8pRUP #mnuchin
— William Avery Hudson (@wahwahnyc) August 22, 2017
[US Treasury Secretary Steven] "Mnuchin's wife" is Louise Linton, writer of the Zambia book that spawned #lintonlies last year https://t.co/J4yt9gYsHK
— Jina Moore (@itsjina) August 22, 2017