Louise Linton is backpedalling on an Instagram post she made last month, calling her behavior “condescending” and “indefensible.”
Linton, the wife of U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, told Washington Life’s Virginia Coyne she regrets the post in an interview for the magazine’s September cover story, for which she graces the cover in a ball gown. “I see the irony of making an apology in a ball gown!” she said in the feature.
“I want to say I concede completely to the comments of my critics,” Linton said in the article. “My post itself and the following response were indefensible.