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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was a recurring staple in the final stretch of his son-in-law’s race.

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BONDI AND BUSTED: Sean Duffy sold stocks 2 days before Trump announced tariff plan

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CNN

The crypto stakes

On the campaign trail, Trump promised to make America the “crypto capital of the planet.” He kicked off his second term with moves to boost the crypto industry such as establishing a national bitcoin reserve, dissolving a Biden-era task force that investigated crypto criminals, installing a Musk ally as “crypto czar” and revoking a banking rule that discouraged financial institutions from owning crypto.

At the same time, Trump and his family have gotten deep into crypto by launching a new firm and the president’s own meme coin, a digital asset that has no underlying value and trades largely on hype. Trump also installed Lutnick, a banker who before his swearing-in was overseeing more than $1.5 billion in crypto-related investments, as his commerce secretary.

Lutnick has long pushed to legitimize bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Last October, while he was still CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, he told a podcast host he had “hundreds and hundreds of millions” of exposure to bitcoin, presumably through crypto assets held by his firm.

Cantor Fitzgerald is now run by his son, which ethicists say leaves Lutnick with an improperly close tie to the firm’s success.

“By turning it over to a family member, you may not benefit directly, but you surely have an interest in the well-being of your child,” said Briffault.

Cantor Fitzgerald didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Howard Lutnick listens as President Donald Trump delivers remarks before Lutnick is sworn in as Commerce Secretary in February.

Meanwhile, Trump’s sons launched a digital currency company, World Liberty Financial, in 2024, and took an ownership stake in a bitcoin mining venture called American Bitcoin last month. Trump’s own media company announced plans earlier this year to potentially buy bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

At least eight top officials in the executive branch disclosed crypto holdings in their financial disclosures, although some agreed to divest the assets. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, HHS Secretary Kennedy and Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz each reported owning more than $500,000 in crypto assets.

An HHS spokesperson told CNN that “Secretary Kennedy continues to adhere to all ethical and legal requirements.”

So far, the Trump administration’s crypto moves haven’t led to a boom in valuations for digital assets. While the price of bitcoin, a bellwether for the $3 trillion crypto market, skyrocketed nearly 50% between Trump’s election victory and inauguration, it has fallen about 9% since then, mirroring broader stock market declines.

Still, Eric Talley, a Columbia University professor who studies corporate law, said he saw the Trump administration’s efforts to promote crypto, and specifically the strategic bitcoin reserve, as “particularly suspicious.”

“The economic stakes — if you were a heavy holder of crypto — would be huge and profoundly positive if you could cause the US government to essentially guarantee a big chunk of the stability of the market of at least some of the crypto issuances,” he said.

‘Energy dominance’

...Meanwhile, Trump’s sons launched a digital currency company, World Liberty Financial, in 2024, and took an ownership stake in a bitcoin mining venture called American Bitcoin last month. Trump’s own media company announced plans earlier this year to potentially buy bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

At least eight top officials in the executive branch disclosed crypto holdings in their financial disclosures, although some agreed to divest the assets. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, HHS Secretary Kennedy and Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz each reported owning more than $500,000 in crypto assets.

An HHS spokesperson told CNN that “Secretary Kennedy continues to adhere to all ethical and legal requirements.”

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5 days ago — Incoming White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, attorney general nominee Pam Bondi, and Transportation secretary nominee Sean Duffy have all ...

several of Donald Trump's top picks have recently been lobbyists.
Susan Wiles, Trump's incoming chief of staff, maintained ties to a lobbying firm until this month.
Sean Duffy, Trump's pick for Transportation secretary, has lobbied for a group of major airlines.

President-elect Donald Trump is set to rely on a trio of former lobbyists to help implement his agenda to shake up Washington.

Incoming White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, attorney general nominee Pam Bondi, and Transportation secretary nominee Sean Duffy have all been registered lobbyists. According to disclosure filings, Bondi and Wiles did lobbying work as recently as this year, with Duffy working as a lobbyist into 2023.

Their combined clients range from blue chip companies — including Amazon, GM, and Uber — to insurance giants like MetLife and Fidelity National Financial. Wiles and Bondi were also separately registered to lobby for foreign interests, which included one of Nigeria's largest political parties and the Qatarian embassy.

Wiles and Bondi have both once worked for Ballard Partners, once a regional firm in Florida that exploded in popularity due to its ties to Trump world. Earlier this summer, the firm opened an office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

"Part of why you hired Ballard Partners over the last few years is knowing that if Trump is president, the people you are working with stand at having a pretty good chance at having influence in a Trump administration," Jeff Hauser, executive director of the Revolving Door Project, a public interest group, told Business Insider.

Brian Ballard, a major Republican fundraiser and founder of the firm, did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

Wiles continued to have K-Street ties as she helped run Trump's campaign.

Wiles, according to The New York Times, did not cut ties to her most recent firm until Trump announced his intention to have her lead his second White House.

Her past work included an effort to get the Trump administration to approve a cooper and gold mine in a sensitive area of Alaska. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska Republican, widely viewed as a key vote in the narrowly divided US Senate, and other top state officials have long opposed the Pebble Partnership. The EPA, under Obama, Trump, and Biden's administrations, have repeatedly opposed efforts to mine in the bay, home to one of the world's largest salmon fisheries.

Duffy, who if confirmed would oversee the Federal Aviation Administration, lobbied in 2020 for an airline group that includes American, Delta, and United among its members.

Starting not long after he left Congress in 2019, Duffy lobbied for Polaris, a US auto manufacturer known its off-road and recreational vehicles. Former lawmakers are only restricted from lobbying Congress for a year, though they can immediately lobby the rest of the federal government. According to his disclosures, Duffy's work at times included advising the company on how to navigate EV incentives and tariffs.

ProPublica previously reported that Duffy lobbied White House trade adviser Peter Navarro as Polaris sought to win exemptions to tariffs on the parts it was importing. ProPublica found that Polaris' efforts, including use of Duffy, ultimately led the company to get most of what it wanted.

Bondi's work for Amazon was related to trade and tariff policy, according to disclosures. She also lobbied for General Motors, Uber, Fidelity National, Carnival North America, and even Major League Baseball.

Trump didn't start the revolving door, but the swamp could get larger.

Wiles, Bondi, and Duffy's respective work all fits within the larger revolving door narrative that dominates Washington, even as Trump portrays himself as ready to shake up the status quo.

Ron Klain, President Biden's first chief of staff and longtime adviser, was a lobbyist for Fannie Mae in the early 2000s. Steve Ricchetti, another longtime Biden fixture, spent so much time lobbying that top Obama administration officials tried to prevent then-Vice President Biden from hiring him after the 2008 election. His brother Jeff Ricchetti, who remains a registered lobbyist, saw his business boom after Biden won the 2020 election.

President Barack Obama initially received high praise for his limits on hiring lobbyists who had recently lobbied the federal agency they sought to join, though he granted some limited waivers including to a former top lobbyist to Raytheon. Ultimately, Obama was unable to stop the revolving door, as Politico reported in 2015.

Hauser said what stands out about the Trump team so far is their unorthodox approach to the transition, including refusing to sign formal agreements with the current administration which would include ethics guidelines.

While Trump, like Obama and Biden, issued an ethics-related executive order after taking office in 2017, Hauser isn't convinced it will happen again.

"Given the aversion of his transition to the ethics process of the transition, I think it's an open question whether or not he is going to make his appointees sign additional ethics pledges in office this time," Hauser said.

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The New York Times reports the Trump administration is firing its own attorneys over alleged incompetence.

The U.S. Department of Transportation on Thursday made the peculiar move of replacing its federal lawyers defending it in a lawsuit over New York City’s congestion pricing program, allegedly because the lawyers undermined the department’s case.

New York wants to impose a $9 entrance fee to Manhattan to reduce gridlock, cut pollution and fund critical transit projects — but Trump called the program "illegal," and has demanded the state halt the plan or risk the White House slashing federal funding and approval for transit projects. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy wrote a letter to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul warning she has until May 21 to explain why his department should not withhold federal funding, with a promise to begin penalizing the state May 28.

New York sued the U.S. government over the threats in federal court, but yesterday the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office reported it had mistakenly filed a confidential memo that criticized the department’s legal strategy.

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Strategy arguments are usually limited to client/attorney discussions and do not find themselves publicly submitted in court. Nevertheless, the court faced an 11-page letter suggesting the federal department build a stronger case by terminating the federal government’s approval of the tolling program “as a matter of changed agency priorities” rather than questioning the legality of the toll — which could be a difficult argument to establish in court.

The Department of Transportation raised the possibility of sabotage by its own attorneys in a statement today, calling the filing “legal malpractice.”

“Are S.D.N.Y. lawyers on this case incompetent or was this their attempt to RESIST?” a federal spokeswoman wrote, according to the NY Times.

U.S. attorney’s office spokesman Nicholas Biase assured the filing “was a completely honest error and was not intentional in any way,” but New York University Law School professor Roderick M. Hills Jr called the filing “a gigantic, obvious, objective blunder.”

“Oh my god — very embarrassing,” Hills told the NYTimes.

Read the full NY Times story here.

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Marc Morano

Weekly update ⋅ December 29, 2023

Climate policies pose threat, not climate change: Marc Morano | Fox Business Video

Fox Business Video

ClimateDepot.com executive editor Marc Morano weighs in on the left's climate fear mongering and failed climate policy push on 'The Bottom Line.'

Climate policies pose threat, not climate change: Marc Morano

ClimateDepot.com executive editor Marc Morano weighs in on the left's climate fear mongering and failed climate policy push on 'The Bottom Line.'

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Marc Morano on Fox Business: 'Go After the Entire Net Zero Agenda'

Tom Olohan

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Text to Speech

Climate Depot founder Marc Morano eviscerated leftist climate propaganda pushed by elites during an appearance on Fox Business Tuesday.

Morano pointed out the undeniable damage caused by climate policies on a Dec. 26 segment of Fox Business’s The Bottom Line. During the segment, he reacted to the latest apocalyptic musings of South Park star Al Gore. Morano shredded elites who speculated about damage from “climate change” while ignoring damage from climate policy.

The Climate Depot founder warned that Al Gore is pushing for a future where Gore “and his friends at the United Nations, at the World Economic Forum and now at the World Health Organization are going to control our food and agricultural decisions, our transportation decisions whether it's the gas-powered car bans and, of course, all of our energy decisions.” Morano added, “So make no mistake, it's the climate policy that poses a threat, not climate change.” Later in the segment he unequivocally urged viewers to “go after the entire net zero agenda.”

Morano highlighted the insane fear-mongering spewed by climate activists like Gore. “When you see all those headlines and all the media at the end of the year, what they're doing is they're selling fear no different than what they did during COVID because when you’re afraid you make poor decisions and you allow authoritarians to take over. That's exactly what we're witnessing here with–juiced scientific claims as well.”

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He brought up Gore’s fear of a “billion climate refugees” noting that there may be migration but again pointed out that: “It’s climate policy not climate change that is going to drive migration.” He noted the catastrophic effects of such policies. “What we’re finding is people in Sri Lanka followed climate policy to the collapse of their government–their presidential palace was overrun. The farmers in the–Netherlands were subjected to climate policy, and they almost crushed all the small family-run farms.”

Morano urged Fox Business viewers to question whether environmentalists’ goals should be implemented at all and asked viewers to question whether extreme measures like giving up the gas-powered car and eating meat are actually necessary. He encouraged listeners instead to reject the net zero movement entirely, “I'm arguing we need to challenge this entire premise. They are using climate fear to literally restrict and collapse energy, agriculture, transportation, go right after our freedom of movement.”

Morano further demonstrated just how extreme the implications of the climate change movement really are when he referenced a study claiming that human breathing contributes to climate change. If it was not clear before, humans are one of the carbon sources that many of these elites wish to reduce.

Morano also emphasized the undemocratic nature of this environmental movement decided by “executive orders, mid-level bureaucrats, corporate government collusion” and “executive agencies.”

He called out billionaire leftists such as Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos by name for buying up vast amounts of American farmland. After detailing Bill Gates’ push for “synthetic lab-grown meat” and funding of crackpot “climate change” solutions, Morano compared the restrictions championed by the climate cult to elite support for COVID lockdowns. Morano added, “You have billionaire evil players at all these organizations, and they're saying we can't be saved unless we give over more of our freedom to these billionaires.”

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Sean Duffy

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Business

Fox Business Network

Environment

Early life

Duffy was born on October 3, 1971, in Hayward, Wisconsin,^[1][2][3] the tenth of 11 children of Carol Ann (née Yackel) and Thomas Walter Duffy. Duffy has a marketing degree from St. Mary's University, and a J.D. degree from William Mitchell College of Law.^[4]

Duffy started log rolling at age five and speed climbing (sprinting up 60 and 90 foot poles) at 13. He holds two speed-climbing titles.^[5]

Television career

In 1997, Duffy appeared on The Real World: Boston, the sixth season of the MTV reality television show, and on Road Rules: All Stars in 1998, where he met his future wife Rachel Campos. Duffy later appeared on Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons, which aired in 2002. Both appeared in a filmed segment on 2008's The Real World Awards Bash, while Duffy served as district attorney.^[6]

Duffy has been an ESPN color commentator for televised competitions and in 2003 appeared as both a competitor and commentator on ESPN's Great Outdoor Games. He was named Badger State Games Honorary Athlete of the 2004 Winter Games.^[4]

Political career

2002–2008

Duffy, a Republican,^[7] was appointed Ashland County District Attorney in 2002^[8] by then Governor Scott McCallum, and was reelected unopposed in 2002,^[8] 2004,^[9] 2006^[10] and 2008. Upon assuming the office of district attorney, he succeeded Michael Gableman, a former justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Duffy was on the Republican slate of the 10 Wisconsin electors for the 2008 presidential election.^[11]

U.S. House of Representatives

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Duffy speaking at CPAC 2013

Elections

2010

Main article: 2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin § District 7

On July 8, 2009, Duffy announced his campaign for Congress in Wisconsin's seventh congressional district. Duffy was considered an underdog in the race until May 2010 when 15-term incumbent Democratic Representative Dave Obey announced that he would not seek re-election.^[12] Following Obey's announcement, Democratic State Senator Julie Lassa joined the race.

On June 4, 2010, Duffy announced his resignation from the position of Ashland County District Attorney to focus on the congressional race. The resignation was effective three weeks later and Duffy returned to work in his father's law practice. He won the race on November 2, 2010, in a nationwide wave of Republicans being elected to Congress.^[13]

Different sources attribute his victory to his ten-month head start on Lassa's campaign, his grassroots organization and fundraising, his experience as a district attorney, and voter discontent with the economy.^[14]

2012

Main article: 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin § District 7

Duffy was challenged by Democratic nominee Pat Kreitlow.

2014

Main article: 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin § District 7

Duffy was challenged by Democratic nominee Kelly Westlund.

Tenure

In 2011, Duffy voted to eliminate Davis-Bacon Act prevailing wage requirements for federal projects.^[15][16][17]

In March 2011, Duffy was criticized when a video published by the Polk County Republicans, showing a public town hall-style meeting in his district, was picked up by media commentators. In the video, made in the wake of the passage of a controversial state bill which would have effectively frozen the salaries of state employees, Duffy was asked about whether he would be willing to cut his own $174,000 salary. Duffy responded that he would only be willing to do so as part of a general round of salary cuts for government employees, and insisted that he was "struggling" to get by, despite his salary being nearly three times the average for Wisconsin residents.^{[18][19][20][21]}

On December 22, 2011, Duffy and fellow GOP House freshman Rick Crawford (Arkansas), published an open letter to Speaker Boehner, urging the leader to allow the House to vote on the Senate's two-month tax cut extension compromise.^[22]

In 2013, Duffy and Democratic House member Michael Michaud (Maine) introduced a resolution calling for government action to ensure that people be provided with paper-based information along with electronic.^[23]

Duffy was on the Select Investigative Panel on Planned Parenthood.^[24]

Duffy supported President Donald Trump's 2017 executive order to impose a temporary ban on entry to the U.S. to citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries.He stated that "President Trump is fulfilling a campaign promise to re-evaluate our visa vetting process so that the American people are safe from terrorism."^[25]

In January 2017, Duffy co-sponsored legislation that would end protection for grey wolves in the Endangered Species Act.^[26]

In February 2017, Duffy made controversial statements in an interview with CNN's Alisyn Camerota while discussing the topic of President Trump's immigration and travel ban, which focused on combating radical Islamist terrorists. When Camerota, referring to the Quebec City mosque shooting, asked why Trump made no public statement on the white terrorists who perpetrated that act, Duffy replied, "I don't know, there's a difference. You don't have a group like ISIS or al Qaeda that is inspiring people around the world to take up arms and kill innocents...That was a one off, Alisyn."^[27]

In July 2018, Duffy said that Europe, China, Canada and Mexico had committed "economic terrorism in a way" by placing retaliatory tariffs on the United States in response to tariffs enacted by the Trump administration.^[28]

Duffy resigned his seat effective September 23, 2019, to care for a newborn daughter with a heart defect.^[29]

Legislation sponsored

Duffy proposed legislation^[30] to replace the director of the consumer watchdog group, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), with a five-person commission and removing the CFPB from Federal Reserve System oversight so that it "would go through the same funding process as other federal agencies."^[30][31][32] The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would have been renamed the Financial Product Safety Commission. The bill also intended to make overturning the decisions about regulations that the new commission made easier to do.^[31] The bill gave the commission more room to get rid of policies that Duffy believes jeopardize the safety of the US banking system.^[33]

In December 2015, Duffy introduced legislation^[34] to establish a five-person financial oversight board over Puerto Rico (with members appointed by the White House) in exchange for allowing public entities in Puerto Rico access to Chapter 9 restructuring.^{[35][36][37][38]}

The American Conservative Union gave him a 78% evaluation in 2017 and Americans for Prosperity gave him an 88% evaluation in 2019.^[

Committee assignments

Duffy served on the House Committee on Financial Services. He was appointed Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations in November 2014, taking over from Patrick McHenry.^[39] He was also a member of the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government-Sponsored Enterprises. He also served on the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit and the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.^[40]

Electoral history

2018 race for U.S. House of Representatives – 7th District^[41]
- Sean Duffy (R), 60.2%
- Margaret Engebretson (D), 38.5%
2016 race for U.S. House of Representatives – 7th District^[42]
- Sean Duffy (R), 62%
- Mary Hoeft (D), 38%
2014 race for U.S. House of Representatives – 7th District
- Sean Duffy (R), 60%
- Kelly Westlund (D), 39%
2012 race for U.S. House of Representatives – 7th District
- Sean Duffy (R), 56%
- Pat Kreitlow (D), 44%
2010 race for U.S. House of Representatives – 7th District
- Sean Duffy (R), 52%
- Julie Lassa (D), 44%
2008 race for District Attorney of Ashland County, Wisconsin
- Sean Duffy (R) (inc.)
- unopposed
2006 race for District Attorney of Ashland County, Wisconsin
- Sean Duffy (R) (inc.)
- unopposed
2004 race for District Attorney of Ashland County, Wisconsin
- Sean Duffy (R) (inc.)
- unopposed
2002 race for District Attorney of Ashland County, Wisconsin
- Sean Duffy (R) (inc.)
- unopposed

Personal life

Duffy is a practicing Roman Catholic.^[43]

Duffy is married to Rachel Campos-Duffy, a fellow alumna of The Real World, and Fox News personality, whom he met when they were co-stars on Road Rules: All Stars.^[44][45] They lived in Ashland, Wisconsin when Duffy was District Attorney for that county.^{[44][46][47][48]} They moved to Weston, a suburb of Wausau, Wisconsin, in late 2011, in order for Duffy to be closer to an airport for his weekly commute to Washington, D.C., where he spent three or four days a week.^[49][50]

As of August 2019, Duffy and his wife have eight children, and were expecting their ninth that October. On August 26, 2019, Duffy announced that because he and his wife learned that their ninth child, would experience health complications, including a heart condition, he was resigning from Congress, effective September 23.^[51]

Duffy's nephew, Erik Johnson, is an American ice hockey defenseman and alternate captain for the Colorado Avalanche.^[52]

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Fox News host implodes when confronted about Donald Trump's frequent taxpayer-funded vacations

Sean Duffy, Harris Faulkner, and Jenna Arnold on The Faulkner Focus, Monday, June 6th, 2022 (screengrab/@justinbaragona/Twitter).

Sky Palma and Raw Story June 06, 2022

During a back-and-forth on Fox News' The Faulkner Focus, the theme of the segment centered around the less-than-stellar job ratings of President Joe Biden amid reports that he's on pace to have the most vacation days of any other U.S. president, including Donald Trump.

This prompted liberal author Jenna Arnold to bring up to her co-panelist Sean Duffy former President Donald Trump's multiple trips to Mar-a-Lago during his presidency.

"Sean, I'm so interested and curious as to why you skipped over Donald Trump's 298 trips to Mar-a-Lago that cost taxpayers $3.4 million and all that money went right back to his golf courses," Arnold said.

Duffy tried his best to come up with an answer.

"Yeah sure, absolutely -- so you look at Donald Trump, he had -- he did take a lot of vacations, but he was working for -- I called him when he was on the gold course, myself as a U.S. Congressman," Duffy replied. "He was engaged the whole time, he was also moving, shaking -- and by the way, Jenna, the results are staggering. What Donald Trump did, from wherever he was at, was great for the American people. Joe Biden, wherever he's at, is failing the American people. That's the end result, so talk about that, Jenna. What has he done for the American people."

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A Trump-backed Sean Duffy candidacy would scramble GOP field in Wisconsin governor's race

Molly Beck

Patrick Marley

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

MADISON – Former President Donald Trump’s plea to former congressman Sean Duffy to mount a run for governor has scrambled the race and raised the possibility of an intense Republican primary.

Duffy, who recently moved to New Jersey after spending eight years representing Wisconsin's Northwoods in Congress, isn’t saying what he plans to do. Political operatives and GOP sources offer wildly different assessments of how likely he would be to get in the race against Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.

By simply raising the idea, Trump has reshaped yet another race.

Former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch has had the primary race largely to herself after longtime lobbyist Bill McCoshen decided not to run after spending months considering a campaign.

Marine veteran and former U.S. Senate candidate Kevin Nicholson has said he will decide soon whether to get in the race for governor or U.S. Senate once Ron Johnson decides whether he will seek a third term. Political newcomer Jonathan Wichmann is already in the race and state Rep. John Macco of Ledgeview has filed paperwork to launch a campaign but hasn't yet announced whether he's in.

Duffy — a Hayward native who has embraced Trump-style politics and still owns a home and property in Sawyer County — could force other candidates to rethink their strategies for the primary if he got into the race.

But how much consideration Duffy is giving to launching a campaign is unclear. While three sources said he is considering returning to Wisconsin politics, others said the move is unrealistic.

"He is definitely thinking about it. He’s talking with family and friends and will make a decision soon," one person close to Duffy and familiar with his thinking said. "He obviously has not knocked down the suggestion — he’s taking it seriously."

Another source said Duffy's consideration was not "particularly serious" at this point.

"I think it’s mostly a case of, when something like this happens, you have to pause and stew on the idea for a little bit," the source said.

Duffy has not returned phone calls since Trump issued his statement on Saturday.

Trump's influence in Wisconsin Republican politics was last exercised this summer when the former president released a statement on the first night of the Republican Party of Wisconsin's annual convention criticizing Vos and other Republican legislative leaders for not doing more to investigate the outcome of the 2020 election.

In response, Senate President Chris Kapenga wrote Trump a two-page letter seeking a correction but also appealing to the former president.

"I feel I need to respond even though you will likely never hear of it, as the power of your pen to mine is like Thor’s hammer to a Bobby pin," Kapenga wrote, later noting he was wearing Trump socks and inviting Trump to a play a round of golf.

More: Wisconsin Republican leader Robin Vos is caught in the middle over the election probe as he faces criticism from the left and right

Vos announced the next day he was directing the Assembly to hire former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman to review the election, a contract for which Gableman signed that day. About two months later, Vos met with Trump on a private plane to discuss the probe.

Vos in that time has grown more supportive of the idea that the election needs further scrutiny.

Craig Gilbert of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel contributed to this report.

Contact Molly Beck and Patrick Marley at molly.beck@jrn.com and patrick.marley@jrn.com.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/12/sean-duffy-k-street-069854

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Sean Duffy heads to K Street after resigning from Congress

The former Wisconsin congressman and Trump defender is joining BGR Group.

Former Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy

By THEODORIC MEYER

11/12/2019

Sean Duffy, the former Republican congressman who has aggressively defended President Donald Trump, is heading to K Street after resigning from Congress in September.

Duffy will become a senior counsel at BGR Group, a Republican-leaning lobbying firm that’s also home to former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour. The firm’s lobbyists represent corporate clients such as Comcast and Pfizer, as well as the governments of Bahrain, Bangladesh, India and South Korea, according to disclosure filings.

Duffy, the former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee’s housing subcommittee, will head up BGR’s financial services practice. BGR lobbies for Credit Suisse and MassMutual,among other financial clients. He plans to register as a lobbyist, according to the firm.

The Wisconsin Republican became famous starring on the MTV reality series “The Real World” in 1997. He later became a district attorney in northern Wisconsin and was elected to Congress in 2010 as part of the Republican wave. He left office on Sept. 23, saying that he and his wife were expecting a child in October who “will need even more love, time and attention due to complications, including a heart condition.”

After resigning, he joined CNN as a paid contributor, where he attracted criticism last month for suggesting there’s a missing Democratic National Committee server in Ukraine — an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that’s been pushed by Trump.

He also questioned on CNN’s “New Day” whether Alexander Vindman, a decorated Army officer and National Security Council staffer who’s become a critical witness in the House impeachment inquiry, might be more sympathetic to Ukrainian interests than American ones.

“It seems very clear that he is incredibly concerned about Ukrainian defense,” Duffy said, referring to Vindman, who immigrated from Ukraine as a child. “I don’t know that he’s concerned about American policy.”

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Jeffrey Toobin, CNN’s chief legal analyst, described Duffy’s remarks as “insanity and, frankly, anti-immigrant bigotry.” Rebecca Kutler, a CNN executive, defended Duffy’s remarks at the time, saying that it was important to have contributors who reflected Trump supporters’ point of view.

Under House ethics rules, Duffy is banned from lobbying Congress for a year after leaving, but he’s allowed to lobby the Trump administration immediately — including former House colleagues such as Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

In a statement, Duffy said he was “eager to grow a financial services practice built on my experience working on behalf of the people with the Administration and federal regulators” as well as Republican and Democrats in Congress. He plans to advise financial services companies, trade associations and their members, he said.

Duffy didn’t start discussions with BGR until after he resigned, according to the firm.

Fox is still fueling the lie that our planet is not warming

From insisting the science on climate change is not settled to deliberately misconstruing weather with climate, Fox News is still pushing the idea that human-made climate change is not real, despite overwhelming evidence and consensus in the scientific community.

In a segment on the April 28 edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight, host Tucker Carlson andFox News contributor Sean Duffy discussed how the “critical environmental movement has infiltrated” schools and colleges, is scaring children about the climate crisis,and is convincing them to not have children. At the end of the segment, Duffy claimed that climate change is a “political movement, not a scientific movement” and that it is wrong to assume “the science is settled in climate”.

the segment aired just a week after Carlson and ultra-conservative political commentator and Fox contributor Mark Steyn mocked comments made by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) linking climate change and racism. (For the record, experts say the two are “inexorably” linked.) Steyn, not satisfied with mocking the relationship between climate and racism, went on to attack the scientific consensus that warming is human-made, by invoking a defamation suit filed against him by climate scientist Michael Mann:

MARK STEYN (GUEST): This is supposed to be science. I've been in a 10-year lawsuit in Washington, D.C., up against the guy who invented the climate change hockey stick, and he is a scientist and his position is that in the last millennium -- nothing happened for nine centuries and then you, Tucker, got into your SUV and fried the planet. And that is a completely idiotic theory. But at least he's not trying to sell the world on the idea that somehow climate change correlates to racism.

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not to be outdone, the following night, prime-time hostLaura Ingraham focused her April 22 monologue on “the big climate con.” Ingraham’s “climate con” list included misleading arguments against the benefits of climate action like job creation; attempts to discredit the role of -- and the need for -- global cooperation in dealing with the crisis; and false claims that the scientific warnings on climate are not sound or well understood. For good measure, Ingraham closed her monologue by mocking and attacking young climate activists.

in back-to-back shows on April 29 and April 30, Ingraham suggested that the climate crisis along with other pressing issues have been manufactured to “justify the left’s brazen efforts to take more of our money and more of our liberty” and they “only exist in the minds of leftists ideologues who hate America anyway.”

Denial paired with fear-mongering about the “left’s radical agenda” exemplifies the brand of climate denial Fox has peddled for years, and some network figures disingenuously equate weather with climate to push that narrative.

On the April 21 edition ofThe Five, Fox News contributor Dagen McDowell ended a rant against the Paris Climate Agreement by suggesting that abnormally cold April weather from Texas to the Great Lakes somehow disproves that global warming is occurring.

DAGEN MCDOWELL (CO-HOST): Here is your forecast today and why they stopped calling it global warming. April 21, 2021: Freeze warnings from Texas to the Great Lakes. Record low temperatures engulfing the heartland. Oh, and Indians/White Sox game in Cleveland had to be postponed for snow and cold.

This bit by MacDowell is both painfully stupid and reminiscent of a body of tweets by then-President Donald Trump, who conflated weather with global warming while suggesting that the term “climate change” was adopted by scientists and advocates to hide the incongruity between major winter storms and the idea of warming.

Interestingly, the term “climate change” was promoted by the Republican strategist Frank Luntz as part of the infamous 2002 memo advising the GOP on how to cast doubt on the scientific consensus that human activity was warming the planet.

Fox Nation host Lara Logan made the same inane claim on the February 19 edition of Outnumbered, in a segment about the winter storm that caused the deadly power failure in Texas:

“It's time for us to have an honest conversation about renewable energy and about global warming, climate change, whatever you want to call it,” said Logan. “This is the first time in Texas’ history that it has had a winter storm warning. So this is — this means that it is not getting warmer and warmer and warmer, simply.”

Fox has long been a platform for climate deniers

Fox News hosts and contributors not only push climate denial but regularly feature discredited deniers on their programs. Notorious climate denier Marc Morano -- who has no scientific background -- and Bjorn Lomborg -- whose spiel is dangerously claiming that climate change is happening, but not a big deal -- have both appeared on Fox for more than a decade. Just this year, both have appeared across Fox programming at least six times from January through April. Notably, Fox hosted both the day after President Joe Biden took office to attack his agenda on climate change.

Larry Kudlow, a long-time climate denier who formerly served as economic adviser to Trump and now hosts a show on Fox Business, has also been one of Fox’s go-to commentators on policies related to climate change across both the network’s so-called “news” and “opinion” programs.

But Morano, Lomborg, and Kudlow are far from the only climate deniers and contrarians on Fox’s roster. Over the past several yearsRush Limbaugh, Joe Bastardi, Steve Milloy, and Patrick Moore all appeared regularly on Fox to push climate denial and misinformation. (In 2019, Moore said on Fox & Friends that “the climate crisis ... is not only fake news, it’s fake science”, and the line was picked up by Trump and tweeted to his millions of followers.)

Importantly, like Morano and Lomborg, none of these commentators are climate scientists, many have strong financial ties to the fossil fuel industry, and all have made a living out of obstructing efforts to address the climate crisis. With the exception of the late Rush Limbaugh, none would have had a megaphone to spread their lies absent Fox News.

Supported by advertisers, Fox runs cover for climate inaction

Climate scientists have repeatedly warned that if immediate and bold actions are not taken, then we will face dire climate disruption -- ever-increasing extreme and abnormal weather that threatens our homes, our food, our livelihoods, our economy, and our lives.

The stakes could not be higher.

The purpose of Fox hosts’ and contributors’ climate denial is to maintain an air of doubt about the existence and reality of our dangerously changing climate to provide cover for Republicans, who actively work to do nothing to stop the climate crisis, and the Big Polluters that bankroll their campaigns. This climate denial is also the foundation of the network’s persistent attacks -- across “opinion” and “straight news” programming -- on any proposed actions to reduce our carbon emissions and transition to a clean-energy economy. By extension, companies that advertise on Fox are party to climate inaction.

Publicly, many of these companies that run ads on Fox, including big insurers Allstate and Liberty Mutual have acknowledged the severe threat of the climate crisis. While others like General Motors, which is also among the network’s biggest advertisers, are actively calling for significant reduction in climate pollution. On the same day Dagen McDowell mocked global warming because it was cold in Texas, General Motors, along with 407 other corporations and businesses, issued a press release for an open letter to Biden supporting his goal of reducing carbon emissions by 50% by 2030. By continuing to sponsor Fox, these brands expose the cavern between their words and actions and associate themselves with a dangerous hostility to facts and science.

To be sure, Fox News is an accomplice to the impending climate emergency we face as a country and as part of the global community -- and so are those that support its programming with ads.

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How broadcast TV news covered environmental justice over the past four years

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on May 6, theoretical physicist and former Obama administration energy official Steve Koonin appeared on two Fox programs to discuss his recently released book Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters.

In a nearly 13-minute appearance on Fox Business’ Kudlow, Koonin pushed a number of claims from his book that contradict the established scientific consensus on climate change. Among other things, he stated that “we've seen hardly any change in most severe weather events”; that “in the U.S., the highest temperatures haven't gone up in 60 years and are the same as they were in 1900”; and that there’s been “no detectable human influences on hurricanes over the last many decades.” He also questioned why “somehow people don’t want to use” fracking and said the current situation around climate change is “misleading panic.”

Later that evening on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight,Koonin repeated the same statement on humans and hurricanes, and on hotter temperatures, he stated that “the incidence of heat waves across the 48 states is no greater now than it was in 1900, and the highest temperatures haven’t gone up in 60 years.” He also called climate models uncertain and claimed that climate science has become “immoral,” as “it's being used as a tool to scare young people, create depression.”

Koonin, who is not a climate scientist, has a controversial history within the scientific and political climate change community. He formerly served as chief scientist for BP (a company that has played an outsized role in both worsening climate change and delaying climate action). In 2017, he advocated for a “red team-blue team” approach to climate science, which would “put the ‘consensus’ to a test” and illuminate “differing perceptions of climate science.” This idea apparently caught the attention of then-EPA Administrator (and notorious climate change denier) Scott Pruitt. And in 2019, he reportedly tried to help former President Donald Trump create a “climate contrarians” panel with longtime climate denier Will Happer.

Given the content of his new book, it’s no surprise that Koonin appeared on Fox to discuss its key points. While those points are wrong and easily debunkable, they have been spreading across the vast right-wing media ecosystem.

Real climate scientists and experts have lambasted Koonin’s book

Some of the major claims Koonin made in his May 6 Fox appearances came directly from his book, which was reviewed in an April 25 Wall Street Journal piece that repeated a number of its claims. Climate Feedback, a website featuring climate scientists who review dubious climate pieces in the media, reviewed the article and estimated “its overall scientific credibility to be very low.”

Regarding Koonin’s misleading statement on human impacts on hurricanes, MIT atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel said the “most up-to-date research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences demonstrates an increase in the proportion of hurricanes that become major hurricanes (Category 3-5) globally, supporting theoretical predictions that date back to 1987.” University of California, Los Angeles climate scientist Daniel Swain echoed this point, noting that “the most intense tropical cyclones are indeed becoming stronger in terms of maximum wind speeds and minimum central pressure and are producing more extreme rainfall.”

In his Kudlow interview, Koonin also downplayed the threat of melting ice and rising sea levels, stating that “people worry about the melting of the ice sheets, but that’s gonna take hundreds of years, if it happens.” This statement is remarkably wrong. Twila Moon of the University of Colorado stated that “over the last 20 years, ice loss has been rapid and large, creating measurable sea level rise.” Postdoctoral researcher Thomas Frederikse agreed, saying that “tide-gauge observations show that sea levels are persistently accelerating since the 1960s, and overall, the observed sea-level rise during the 20th century is higher than during any other century over the last 3000 years.”

Koonin’s claims downplaying the effectiveness of climate models are also wrong. Climate scientist Zeke Hausfather states that Koonin’s criticism “ignores the fact that climate models published since the 1970s were quite accurate in projecting the warming that actually occurred in the years after they were published, as we discuss in our recent paper.” (In fact, climate models have been so correct that even fossil-fuel giant Exxon’s own scientists accurately predicted the rate of global warming in the 1980s.)

The Climate Feedback piece also addressed other misleading claims from Koonin’s book that he did not repeat in his Fox interviews, including misleading statements on global wildfires, the severity of droughts, global crop yields, and the economic impact of climate change. Overall, says Twila Moon, “many conclusions highlighted in this article are examples of cherry-picking information and failing to provide the context of change. In other instances, statements are fully wrong and unsupported by scientific research.”

Marianna Lavelle of Inside Climate News also addressed some of the claims Koonin made in his new book, including rebutting the statement he made on his Fox appearances about hot temperatures and heat waves in the U.S.:

The average annual temperature in the contiguous U.S. has increased from 0.7 degrees to 1.0 degrees Celsius (1.2 to 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) since the start of the 20th century. The year 2020 was the fifth-warmest year in the 126-year record for the contiguous U.S. And the five warmest years on record have occurred since 2012, NOAA reports. There is a more marked increase in nighttime lows than in daytime highs (the “warmest” temperatures) because of factors like the cooling effect of daytime aerosol pollution and soil moisture evaporation.

She also countered his claim about a future minimal economic impact of climate change by noting 2019 research that found that “global warming has very likely exacerbated global economic inequality, including ∼25% increase in population-weighted between-country inequality over the past half century.”Multiple scientific studies have showed that the cost of climate inaction far outweighs the cost of climate action. Indeed, one analysis finds that climate change could cost nearly $70 trillion by 2100.

In the past several weeks, Koonin has been featured in numerous right-wing media outlets

In addition to his May 6 appearances on Kudlow and Tucker Carlson Tonight, Koonin has made a number of other television appearances, written op-eds, and given interviews promoting his book. The vast majority of these have been with right-wing media outlets, including sources that are climate deniers.

He appeared on Bill O’Reilly’s The First on May 6, Andrew Bolt’s show on Australia’s Sky News on May 5, CNBC’s *Squawk Box* on May 4, and Kudlow on March 19. O’Reilly, Bolt, Kudlow, and Squawk Box’s Joe Kernan are all climate deniers. He also appeared on the * program on Sky News Australia on May 8. Here, he claimed that “modest” global warming will be beneficial for the planet, without noting that the negative impacts of climate change will far outweigh any positive ones. Sky News Australia, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch, has a history of climate denial.

He has written pieces promoting his book for The National Review and the New York Post, given a print interview to The Wall Street Journal’s Holman Jenkins (who has a history of being wrong about climate issues), given interviews to conservative radio personalities John Gormley and Ross Kaminsky, and spoken to fossil fuel industry shill Alex Epstein, climate misinformer Rich Lowry of The National Review, and conservative Daily Beast writer Matt Lewis. His book and its climate misinformation have also been the basis of articles in Townhall and The Federalist. And along the way, he’s been promoted by notorious climate deniers Marc Morano and Steve Milloy.

Right-wing media propping up books that are skeptical of climate change is an all-too-familiar occurrence

If this all sounds familiar, that’s because it is -- this sort of thing happened just last summer, when climate contrarians Bjorn Lomborg and Michael Shellenberger both released books downplaying the seriousness of climate change within a month of each other. Like Koonin, they both appeared across the right-wing media ecosystem to promote their books. There are other similarities between these individuals as well -- all are highly controversial within the climate science community, while their major works have been fact-checked and discredited by actual climate scientists and experts. Additionally, none of them are climate scientists.

As the realities of worsening climate change become more and more apparent, it’s become more difficult for right-wing media outlets to continue unequivocally denying that climate change is even happening. This new type of climate denial espoused by people like Koonin -- who say climate change is happening but it’s not that big of a problem -- provides perfect cover for right-wing media outlets to act like they care about the issue while they continue helping polluting companies kick climate action down the road.

Koonin’s misinformation-filled book won’t be the last one to downplay the threat of climate change, but it’s becoming easier to spot books like these when right-wing media take an exclusive interest in promoting their false claims.

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https://www.alternet.org/2021/01/fox-news-georgia/

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faux News host Rachel Campos-Duffy on Wednesday reacted to potential Republican losses in the Georgia runoff races by blaming Black people who she said had been "captured" by Democrats.

The morning after the Tuesday runoffs, Fox News host Sandra Smith spoke to Campos-Duffy about the results.

"You're analysis is very important this morning," Smith said. "You and your husband, Sean Duffy, are very strong voices in the Republican Party. You see what's happening, you just watched what's happening down in Georgia."....

not this guy:

https://www.alternet.org/2019/12/trump-ordered-pentagon-to-delay-ukraine-aid-less-than-2-hours-after-zelensky-phone-call-foiad-emails

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Trump ordered Pentagon to delay Ukraine aid less than 2 hours after Zelensky phone call: FOIA’d emails

Written by News Corpse, Daily Kos December 22, 2019

The fact that Donald Trump has now been impeached (despite what the loons on Fox News say), hasn’t slowed the discovery of new evidence of his guilt. This is one of the reasons that it’s so important to ensure a comprehensive consideration of the Articles of Impeachment when they get transmitted to the Senate. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi knows this, and so do the vast majority of Americans who favor a full and fair hearing, including witnesses and document production.

The impeachment controversy has sparked as epic battle between Pelosi and the Senate’s GOP majority leader, Mitch McConnell, who has already announced that he has no intention of conducting a fair hearing and will be “taking his cues” from White House lawyers. In the meantime, new evidence has already emerged that appears to be profoundly damaging to Trump:

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This email from Michael Duffey—approximately 90 minutes after President Trump’s call with the president of Ukraine—is all the more reason why we need Duffey and others to testify in a Senate trial.

The “sensitive nature”? What is that about?

A screenshot of the email from Michael Duffey]

That’s right. Less than two hours after Trump got off the phone with President Zelensky of Ukraine, he ordered the Defense Department to withhold military aid to a country that was being invaded at the time by Russia. The order included a directive to keep it quiet due to it’s “sensitive nature.”

Trump is fond of telling everyone to “read the transcript” of his phone call with Zelensky. He’s tweeted that demand 29 times in the past few weeks. Most recently, yesterday. He is referring to reading the notes made in a memo that describes his conversation with Zelensky. And he is apparently too oblivious to recognize that the memo actually confirms that he conditioned military aid on Zelensky’s promise to help him smear Joe Biden. What Trump said, in response to Zelensky’s inquiry about the aid, was…

“I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it.”

That’s a textbook quid pro quo. Trump then talks about getting some information related to a debunked conspiracy theory about a computer server that belonged to the Democratic National Committee. But he quickly segues from that to explicit requests for dirt on Joe Biden:

“There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with [Rudy Giuliani and] the Attorney General [William Barr] would be great … so if you can look into it.”

This new memo was acquired through a Freedom of Information Act request by the Center for Public Integrity.It is among the documents that the White House had previously refused to surrender to congressional investigators. There are many more that Trump continues to withhold. And he is still refusing to allow his staff to give testimony.

But if there’s one thing this memo proves, it’s that there is a real need to continue probing this criminal president and the accomplices in his administration. And when the Senate takes up the impeachment, they must permit the introduction of new evidence and testimony from relevant witnesses. The truth will likely come out eventually, anyway. But if Republicans in Congress allow Trump to deny access to it at this stage, they will be held accountable by both the courts and the voters.

https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-duffy/cnns-sean-duffy-problem

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Duffy, a former Republican member of Congress, is the latest shill for President Donald Trump to join CNN and immediately disgrace the network. That’s by design, the result of a deliberate policy mandated by the network’s top executives to hire and feature Trump supporters, knowing all the while that they will inevitably lie to CNN's audience.

On Tuesday morning, Duffy was brought on to discuss Army Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman’s pending congressional testimony before the House committees that are currently pursuing an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s abuse of power regarding Ukraine. Vindman, the top official handling Ukraine on the National Security Council, will testify that he was on the July phone call in which Trump urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to probe former Vice President Joe Biden, and that he viewed the call as improper and reported his concerns to the NSC’s top lawyer.

Vindman earned a Purple Heart while deployed in Iraq in 2003. He came to the United States as a Jewish refugee from Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union) when he was 3 years old.

That latter point was the focus of Duffy’s criticism, as the newly minted CNN contributor and The Real World: Boston alumnus insinuated that the decorated active duty Army officer had turned on the president because he is a “former Ukrainian” who “wants to make sure that taxpayer money goes in military aid to the Ukraine.”

Anchor John Berman spent the next several minutes pushing back on and teasing out the implications of the smear, as his colleague repeatedly suggested that Vindman had prioritized his “homeland” of Ukraine over the United States. He later reaired the comments as an example of efforts by the president’s allies to “discredit” Vindman, referring to them as “a pretty shocking statement.”

Duffy’s smear has continued to drive CNN’s coverage of the impending Vindman testimony.

Editor at large Chris Cillizza included Duffy’s comments, along with similar remarks from Fox hosts Brian Kilmeade and Laura Ingraham, in a piece denouncing the Vindman smear as “Awful. Appalling. Asinine.”

Contributor Jeffrey Toobin added during a discussion of the comments on the following hour of CNN’s programming that “with all due respect to our new contributor,” Duffy’s smear amounted to “insanity and, frankly, anti-immigrant bigotry.”

But Berman’s co-anchor Alisyn Camerota offered a different take. “I appreciate Sean Duffy's candor,” she replied to Toobin, “of how he sees all of this because we are hearing it on Fox TV and elsewhere and we’re going to be hearing it all day.”

That’s been CNN’s official line since the 2016 campaign, when the network responded to Trump’s political rise by hiring a stable of pro-Trump contributors to populate its omnipresent panel segments. Top network executive Jeff Zucker followed that path knowing that these hires would inevitably seek to mislead CNN’s audience. “Some of these folks are not very good with the facts,” he explained during an interview last year. “But that’s O.K. in the sense that it’s our job then to call them out.”

The result of this policy has been twofold: nonstop misinformation that consistently sidetracks the network’s discussions, and a seemingly endless string of controversies, as Trumpists engage in bigoted commentary, become radioactive, lose their jobs, and are replaced with new faces.

Duffy is already following that well-trod path, as the Vindman smear marks his second major controversy in two weeks. Duffy drew widespread criticism, including from his new colleagues, after he used his first two appearances as a CNN contributor last week to push the nonsensical claim that Ukraine is in possession of the Democratic National Committee server that Russian operatives hacked during the 2016 election.

CNN can only expect more of the same going forward, as the former congressman has a long record of promoting conspiracy theories. But that’s what he’s there to do.

The conspiracy theories and lies of CNN’s latest hire, Sean Duffy

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CNN hired Sean Duffy, who immediately pushed conspiracy theories that CNN had already debunked

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CNN pays Sean Duffy to make a ridiculous remark -- and then calls his statement “shocking

1019 aha-let ex pols get hired to be [various titles] to cable news, they want cross-fire fights, but also seen as objective/both sides?

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It's a bad sign when a news network has to constantly live-fact check a new hire.

Recently, CNN hired former Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) as a political commentator. Duffy used his first several appearances to push debunked conspiracy theories.

At the center of Duffy's focus is a widely debunked conspiracy theory centered around the company Crowdstrike; as the story goes, Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election on behalf of the Democrats, and in an effort to cover its tracks the company took the Democratic National Committee's computer server that was hacked to Ukraine. The entire thing is a lie, from beginning to end. The DNC didn't even have a single server -- their email was based in cloud servers. And obviously, the evidence is that Russia interfered in the election, not Ukraine.

However, these facts did not stop Duffy from using his first two appearances on CNN to argue that President Trump was right to pressure Ukraine to open an investigation into the conspiracy theory, even though it "may be" debunked.

We compiled some of the other conspiracy theories and lies that Duffy has pushed over the years.

https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/cnn-hired-a-habitual-liar-as-the-republicans-strategy-to-work-the-refs-pays-off/

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CNN hired a habitual liar as the Republicans’ strategy to ‘work the refs’ pays off

Written by Eric Boehlert / Daily Kos October 23, 2019

Former Republican Rep. Sean Duffy, recently hired by CNN to be a paid political commentator, can’t stop fabricating facts when he goes on the air. Since making his CNN debut on Sunday, Duffy has lied about the shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords. He’s lied about Joe Biden trying to fire a Ukraine prosecutor in order to protect his son. And Duffy’s helped spread the preposterous lie about the Democratic National Committee’s email servers from 2016 somehow ending up in a foreign country.

Sean Duffy, who staked his congressional reputation in recent years on being an undying Trump loyalist, is not a serious person. And Sean Duffy appears to be a habitual liar. (He once claimed George Soros was rigging voting machines, and that Hillary Clinton’s longtime aide had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.) You would think those unfortunate traits would represent two large check marks against someone who wanted to be in the business of commenting on the news.

And yet, here we are.

CNN executives, having surveyed the political landscape in search of new voices to add to its discussions, decided to hire Duffy, which says a lot more about CNN than it does Duffy. What’s newsworthy about Duffy’s hiring is the timing. It just seems odd since much of the press, including CNN, has moved to toughen up Trump coverage in recent weeks and temporarily abandon the hallmark timidity that has defined so much of the reporting and commentary over the last two-plus years.

“The mainstream media seems to have quietly removed its Trump-normalizing gloves in the past few weeks,” wrote Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan.

CNN anchors and commentators have often been part of that change. They have been out front since the Ukraine collusion scandal broke last month, emphasizing that Trump’s pronouncements and denials are almost always wrapped in lies and deceptions. That’s a good thing.

So why now, of all times, would CNN decide to shift into reverse and hire another Trump loyalist who cannot be trusted to be honest or state anything factual each time he appears on air? Why would CNN want to go back to playing the silly and time-consuming game of blocking off lots of airtime so conservative contributors can make stuff up, which CNN anchors then have to point out is, y’know, made up? What does CNN hope to accomplish with this?

It’s all just a colossal waste of time, and CNN already tried to pull off that losing strategy for two years. Looking to capture the cable news “middle” between Fox News and MSNBC, CNN often obsesses over its Both Sides presentation. And on paper, there’s nothing wrong with that. (Think: Crossfire format.) The problem is trying to find honest conservatives these days and, specifically, the nearly impossible task of finding honest conservatives who are also Trump loyalists, since that’s the Both Sides debate CNN often wants to present.

CNN has hired many such Trump loyalists who have chewed up the cable news scenery, spreading lie after preposterous lie. That includes people like Jason Miller, Jack Kingston, Ed Martin, Jeffrey Lord, and Corey Lewandowski, among others. None of them, to be generous, covered the network in glory. Following the 2018 school massacre at Parkland High School in Florida, Kingston claimed on the air that students who rallied against gun violence were being taken advantage of by “left-wing gun control activists” led by billionaire George Soros.

It all badly muddies the waters, because by allowing—and paying—people like Duffy to disseminate nonsense like he’s already spewed about DNC servers, CNN is legitimizing that lie, even when it’s fact-checked. “First of all, what you are stating is completely inaccurate and factually wrong,” CNN contributor Jen Psaki told Duffy when he started in with the server conspiracy. “It’s a conspiracy theory on the right-wing blogs.” And frankly, that’s where that garbage should stay.

By hiring someone like Duffy at this juncture, it appears CNN has learned very little since 2017, and specifically very little about how to cover a liar like Trump. It’s not up to CNN and other media players to hire bad actors simply because the conservative movement is filled with bad actors. All news outlets ought to have easily identifiable standards, and if would-be paid contributors can’t meet those standards, they should not be hired.

Keep in mind that CNN remains under constant bullying attacks from Trump and the entire conservative movement. Last year, the White House lashed out at CNN by pulling reporter Jim Acosta’s press pass. Trump routinely defames the network on Twitter. And just last week, Trump’s personal attorney sent a ridiculous threat to CNN, threatening to sue the network for its “biased” coverage of Trump. (“Never in the history of this country has a President been the subject of such a sustained barrage of unfair, unfounded, unethical and unlawful attacks by so-called ‘mainstream’ news, as the current situation,” etc.) Lawyers everywhere mocked the move as deeply unserious, but the cumulative effect adds up.

And that makes Duffy’s hiring even more distressing. It certainly seems to send a signal that “working the refs” is an effective strategy, and that if Republicans complain loudly and long enough, the cable news channel will bend, in small ways, to the GOP’s will.

Recall that back in January, CNN seemed to make a similar and equally misguided concession to Trump when it hired a hyper-partisan Republican flack with no experience in journalism to oversee the network’s campaign news coverage. After a public outcry, CNN changed the Republican’s job duties.

Note to CNN: It’s not too late to do the same with Duffy.

Eric Boehlert is a veteran progressive writer and media analyst, formerly with Media Matters and Salon. He is the author of Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush and Bloggers on the Bus. You can follow him on Twitter @EricBoehlert.

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GOP lawmaker Sean Duffy abruptly resigns from Congress: report

Brad Reed / Raw StoryAugust 26, 2019

Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) has abruptly decided to resign from Congress, according to Politco reporter Jake Sherman.

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President-elect Donald Trump has spent much more time feuding with celebrities than campaigning with them, and almost no big names on his less impressive roster of endorsers gave to him, even the ones who are long-time Republican contributors, such as actors Chuck Norris and Jon Voight. (Since you asked: Trump’s Saturday Night Live near-doppelganger, Alec Baldwin, didn’t give to any presidential candidate; his only contribution of the 2016 cycle went to actress Melissa Gilbert, who ran for a House seat but dropped out for health reasons.)

As for new donors, actress (of Cluelessfame) and Fox News host Stacey Dash did endorse Trump, but chose to make her first donation to the Republican Party of California instead. Similarly, former reality TV star, talk show host and activist Rachel Campos-Duffy, another Trump endorser, gave her first contribution to the Republican Party of Wisconsin, the state that sends her husband Sean Duffy to Congress. Trump did a little better with the right-leaning world of professional sports than with Hollywood, receiving first-time contributions from a pair of athletes with ties to his home state: Buffalo Bills lineman Richie Incognito and former New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez.

San Francisco-Bashing GOPer Sean Duffy Raised Campaign Cash in...San Francisco

When it comes to fundraising, no city is too liberal for Congressional Republicans.

By Andy Kroll | Wed Jun. 13, 2012

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Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wisc.), an alumnus of MTV's Real World (Class of '97, Boston [1]) who rode the 2010 tea party wave into Congress, doesn't much like the campaign trackers affiliated with the outfit SuperPAC Credo following him around his northwestern Wisconsin district. That super-PAC is arm of the progressive phone company Credo Mobile, which is based in San Francisco. Late last month, Duffy went out of his way to bash [2] the trackers on his trail as "a group of four of these radicals from San Francisco." Ouch. (Trackers, mind you, are fixtures of the campaign trail in Congressional elections.)

But Duffy's disdain for liberal San Francisco didn't prevent him from jetting out west Tuesday to raise some campaign cash. As the *San Francisco Chronicle* reported [3], Duffy appeared alongside House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) at a $1,000-a-head fundraiser at San Francisco's posh Presidio Golf Club.

Here's the invitation:

Via the San Francisco Chronicle

Duffy hasn't had any trouble raising money his first term in office. His campaign haul to date totals $1.38 million, and he has $960,857 cash on hand, according to [4] the Center for Responsive Politics. Duffy's haul puts him in the top-third in fundraising for all members of Congress. Not bad for a freshman.

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Source URL: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/06/san-francisco-sean-duffy-fundraiser-credo-super-pac

Links:

[1] http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1651561/real-world-alum-sean-duffy-talks-congressional-win.jhtml

[2] http://news.wpr.org/post/liberal-superpac-targets-duffy?ft=1&f=

[3] http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2012/06/12/they-love-sf-money-wisconsin-goper-who-decries-san-francisco-radicals-here-for-big-fundraiser/

[4] http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00030967&cycle=2012

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Duffy

Sean Patrick Duffy (born October 3, 1971) is an American politician, prosecutor, former sports commentator and reality television personality. He first entered public life as a cast member on The Real World: Boston and 2002's Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons, before going on to serve as district attorney of Ashland County, Wisconsin and the U.S. Representative forWisconsin's 7th congressional district. He is a member of the Republican Party.

Early life

Sean Patrick Duffy was born in Hayward, Wisconsin,^[2][3][4] on October 3, 1971, the tenth of 11 children of Carol Ann (née Yackel) and Thomas Walter Duffy. He is of Irish, English, German, and Norwegian descent.^[5] Duffy has a marketing degree from St. Mary's University, and a law degree from William Mitchell College of Law.^[6]

Duffy started log rolling at age five and speed climbing (sprinting up 60 and 90 foot poles) at 13. He holds two speed-climbing titles.^[7]

Television career

In 1997, Duffy appeared on The Real World: Boston, the sixth season of the MTV reality television show, and on Road Rules: All Stars in 1998, where he met his future wife Rachel. Duffy later appeared on Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons, which aired in 2002. Both appeared in a filmed segment on 2008's The Real World Awards Bash, while Duffy served as district attorney.^[8]

Political career

2002–2008

Duffy, a Republican,^[9] was appointed to the district attorney's post in 2002^[10] by then Governor Scott McCallum, and was elected unopposed in 2002,^[10] 2004,^[11] 2006^[12] and 2008. Upon assuming the office of district attorney, he succeeded Michael Gableman, a current justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Duffy was on the Republican slate of the 10 Wisconsin electors for the 2008 Presidential Election.^[13]

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

2010

Main article: United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin, 2010 § District 7

On July 8, 2009, Duffy announced his campaign for Congress in Wisconsin's seventh congressional district. Duffy was considered an underdog in the race until May 2010 when 15-term incumbent Democrat Representative Dave Obey announced that he would not seek re-election.^[14] Following Obey's announcement, Democratic State Senator Julie Lassa joined the race.

On June 4, 2010, Duffy announced his resignation from the position of District Attorney of Ashland County to focus on the congressional race. The resignation was effective three weeks later and Duffy returned to work in his father's law practice.^[15]

He won the race on November 2, 2010, in a nationwide wave of Republicans being elected to Congress.^[16] Different sources attribute his victory to his ten-month head start on Lassa's campaign, his grassroots organization and fundraising, his experience as a district attorney, and voter discontent with the economy.^[17]

2012

Main article: United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin, 2012 § District 7

Duffy was challenged by Democratic nominee Pat Kreitlow.

2014

Main article: United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin, 2014 § District 7

Duffy was challenged by Democratic nominee Kelly Westlund.

Tenure

Duffy voted to eliminate Davis-Bacon Act prevailing wage requirements for federal projects.^[18][19][20] The first piece of legislation he sponsored was the RESET Act, which called for using unspent money in Obama's economic stimulus plan to pay down the debt. The idea was later incorporated into a spending bill. He also introduced a resolution to ban earmarks. One of his sponsored legislation, to reform the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, passed the U.S. House but hasn't passed the U.S. Senate.^[20] The bill created a bipartisan commission made up of five members of Congress to replace the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director. The bill also gave the committee more room toget rid of polices that Duffy believes jeopardize the safety of the US banking system.^[21]OMFG

In 2013, Duffy and Democrat House member Michael Michaud (Maine) introduced a resolution calling for government action to ensure that people be provided with paper-based information along with electronic.^[27]

Legislation sponsored

Duffy introduced the Small Cap Liquidity Reform Actof 2013 (H.R. 3448; 113th Congress) on November 12, 2013.^[28] The bill is intended to increase the liquidity on the stock market of stocks belonging to emerging growth companies.^[29] It would allow small companies to choose a tick size of $0.05 or $0.10 instead of the standard $0.01.^[29][30] To participate, companies would need to have stock prices of over $1.00 and revenues of less than $750 million.^[31]

Duffy introduced the Consumer Financial Protection Safety and Soundness Improvement Act of 2013 (H.R. 3193; 113th Congress) on September 26, 2013.^[32] It is a bill that would restructure the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) by transforming it into a five-person commission and removing it from the Federal Reserve System.^[33] The CFPB would be renamed the "Financial Product Safety Commission." This bill is also intended to make overturning the decisions about regulations that the new commission makes easier to do.^[33]

Committee assignments

Duffy serves on the Committee on Financial Services, in particular the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit and the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.^[34]

Electoral history

2014 Race for U.S. House of Representatives – 7th District
- Sean Duffy (R), 60%
- Kelly Westlund (D), 39%
2012 Race for U.S. House of Representatives – 7th District
- Sean Duffy (R), 56%
- Pat Kreitlow (D), 44%
2010 Race for U.S. House of Representatives – 7th District
- Sean Duffy (R), 52%
- Julie Lassa (D), 44%
2008 Race for District Attorney of Ashland County, Wisconsin
- Sean Duffy (R) (inc.)
- unopposed
2006 Race for District Attorney of Ashland County, Wisconsin
- Sean Duffy (R) (inc.)
- unopposed
2004 Race for District Attorney of Ashland County, Wisconsin
- Sean Duffy (R) (inc.)
- unopposed
2002 Race for District Attorney of Ashland County, Wisconsin
- Sean Duffy (R) (inc.)
- unopposed

Personal life

Duffy is married to Rachel Campos-Duffy, an alumna of The Real World: San Francisco.^[35][36][37] They once lived in Ashland, Wisconsin.^[38][39] They moved to Weston, Wisconsin in late 2011,^[40] and in 2013 they moved to Wausau, Wisconsin so that Duffy could be closer to an airport for his weekly commute to Washington, D.C., where he spends three or four days a week.^[41]

They have seven children: Evita Pilar, Xavier Jack, Lucia-Belen, John-Paul, Paloma Pilar, MariaVictoria Margarita, and Margarita Pilar.^[42][43]

[According to a January 2014 report by Yahoo News, "LIBRE's staff is comprised of veteran conservative Hispanic operatives, including National Strategic Director Jose Mallea, formerly the campaign manager for Florida Sen. Marco Rubio; Policy Director Jorge Lima, once an adviser to former Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuno; and Chief of Staff Andeliz Castillo, who led outreach to Hispanic media for the Republican National Committee during the 2008 presidential election. The 35-member staff is spread out among eight states, with plans to expand to a dozen by year’s end. LIBRE has brought on Rachel Campos-Duffy, a writer and wife of Wisconsin Republican Rep. Sean Duffy, who both made their public debut in the 1990s as characters on MTV's 'The Real World.'"^[7]]

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External links

Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
Profile at Project Vote Smart
Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Election Commission
Legislation sponsored at The Library of Congress
Appearances on C-SPAN
Congressman Sean Duffy official U.S. House website
Sean Duffy for Congress
Sean Duffy at DMOZ

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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/15/congressman-screams-at-yellen-you-did-nothing.html

rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis., lashed out at Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Wednesday, accusing her and the Fed of willfully hiding documents that have been subpoenaed for an ongoing congressional leak probe.}:

"You did absolutely nothing—zero. ... You did nothing to perpetuate an investigation that would lead us to the truth," Duffy charged. "Madam Chair, it appears that you are the one who is jeopardizing—or the Fed is the one who is jeopardizing—this investigation. Am I wrong?"

Yellen, who maintains that the Fed cannot release requested documents without jeopardizing the Justice Department's criminal investigation, replied by saying, "We want to see this investigation succeed." She said she plans to turn over all the requested documents once the investigations by the DOJ and the Fed's inspector general are completed.

Yellen, speaking slowly, told Duffy that the Fed had a clear procedure to follow.

He responded: "If anyone is trying to sweep this under the rug, it's the Fed. It is Congress who is trying to bring light to this." The congressman emphasized that the Fed has no legal authority to withhold the relevant documents.

At issue is the disclosure of confidential information about a 2012 meeting of Fed policymakers allegedly to a firm that sells analysis and reporting to investors.

The fiery exchange occurred while Yellen presented a monetary policy report to the House Financial Services Committee.

Duffy, Sean Rep 2% FoX

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Television career

Political career

2002–2008

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

Tenure

Legislation sponsored

Committee assignments

Electoral history

Personal life

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Contents

Early life

Television career

Political career

2002–2008

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

Tenure

Legislation sponsored

Committee assignments

Electoral history

Personal life

References

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