Rep. Mark Meadows brought Lynne Patton, a top Trump administration housing official, to a House panel on Wednesday to challenge Michael Cohen’s claims that President Trump is racist.

Meadows, a Republican from North Carolina, accused Cohen of making “very demeaning comments about the president that Miss Patton doesn’t agree with” during the House Oversight Committee hearing.

“She says as a daughter of a man born in Birmingham, Ala., that there is no way that she would work for an individual who was a racist,” Meadows, head of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, said about Patton, who is black. “How do you reconcile the two of those?”

Cohen shot back: “As neither should I as the son of a Holocaust survivor.”

Meadows continued that he has talked to the president over 300 times and has never heard Trump utter one racist comment.

“Do you have proof?” Meadows asked.

“Ask Miss Patton how many people who are black executives at the Trump Organization. and the answer is zero,” Cohen said.

Patton once considered Cohen one of her best friends.

He introduced Patton to the Trump family years ago, which led to her previous job helping run the Eric Trump Foundation.

Before the hearing, Patton accused Cohen on Instagram of leveling “unsubstantiated claims.”

“I am sad that Michael has elected to leverage his own personal illegal activities into nothing more than political theater this week with the sole partisan purpose to embarrass a sitting President with unfounded personal or professional gossip,” Patton wrote.

“I am sad that Michael would turn his back on a man to whom he has repeatedly said he owes everything in the hope of a reduced prison sentence.”

Cohen said in opening statements that he’s ashamed to have worked for Trump because “he is a racist. He is a conman. He is a cheat.”

But Patton said that, as a daughter of man born in Birmingham, “there is no amount of money in the world that would make me work for a man who I thought harbored bigoted or racist ideologies.”

She praised Trump for raising “five of the most unbiased and open-minded children I’ve ever known. Four of whom I count among my very best friends, to date.”

Patton serves as a regional administrator for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, where she’s been spotlighting the woes of residents of New York City’s public housing agency by living with residents at four different projects this month.

She took a week off her stint this week to attend planned meetings in DC.