Chasten Buttigiegegeg criticized double standards at FOX News, while emphasizing the different ways in which the conservative network has dealt with officials who travel on official trips with family.
The husband of Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg pointed out that in January 2023 Fox News grilled Pete Buttigieg to bring his husband on an official trip.
But the network did not seem to do when the new named Trump Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy (A former contributor At Fox) this weekend with his family traveled at Air Force One for the Daytona 500 by President Donald Trump.
“I remember that Fox News absolutely melts when a certain secretary took a family member on a presidential delegation,” chasten bendiging wrote on xPreviously Twitter, in response to a video of the trip with Trump that Duffy shared online.
“Let’s see how it is going on,” he added.
Indeed, two years ago Pete Buttigeg for interrogation of Fox’s Bret Baier about the presence of his husband on a presidential delegation to the Invictus games, the sporting event founded by Prince Harry for wounded maid.
“I led the American delegation as one of the great awards of my time in this job,” Pete Buttigieg explained to Baier at the time. “The diplomatic protocol on a presidential delegation is that the director is often accompanied by their husband.”
“This is what I want you to understand,” he continued. “For me it was the secretary of the army under President Trump who made that trip with his wife. Before that it was Mrs. Trump as first Lady who went to the Invictus games. Mrs Obama did the same for that. I think the question is in my mind, if nobody raises questions about why secretary Esper and his wife led that delegation, including those they should have, why is it different if I and my husband are it? “
View that exchange here: