Limitation in LR2 cropping

Some of my commercial work is for realtors. For listing photos of homes in the MLS listing service, they require all photos to be in landscape orientation and typically at a 3:4 aspect ratio. I shoot both portrait and landscape for the client to use on their own website, export the adjusted and "aesthetically" cropped images to a new folder. Then in develop mode, run through the folder and apply a new 3:4 crop on each image.
Here's the problem: If the original photo was shot as a portrait view, when you try to apply a custom 3:4 aspect ratio crop, the image is cropped into a portrait layout, i.e. 4:3. If you try to set the aspect as 4:3, it still crops as a portrait that is taller than it is wide. It seems there is no way to take the portrait image and crop it wider than it is tall, thereby selecting part of the image and converting the new cropped version to landscape.
I tried reorienting the image first, then tried to crop, but of course it still results in an image that is taller than it is wide, when reoriented the right way up.
The only way to do this it seems is open the image in PS and crop it there, then save and add back into the catalog.
Anyone else have any clever suggestions as to how to do this in LR...maybe I'm missing something simple...
Thanks

> It seems there is no way to take the portrait image and crop it wider than it is tall,...
It's just not intuitive.
Grab a corner and drag it sideways. It'll flip at some point. You'll get the hang of it.

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