Talk about nepotism! But Duffy doesn’t care. He thinks Trump will back him up since he’s in Trump’s ‘cabinet’. He should think about that a little more since Trump also could easily turn on him. Remember Trump’s mental status. Nothing is certain with him. But Duffy has an ego bigger than California or Texas. He’s not concerned at all. He’s going to boost his son-in-law no matter what. Let’s see if it backfires on him in the future. With appreciation for Raw Story:
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s “quest” to help his 26-year-old son-in-law in his bid for Congress has left one prominent podcaster “utterly disgusted,” Republicans “grumbling” and senior White House officials “irritated,” the Daily Mail reported on Saturday. Duffy’s son-in-law, Michael Alfonso, is running to represent the very same Wisconsin congressional district Duffy once held from 2011 to 2019, and has boosted Alfonso “in his personal capacity,” a Transportation spokesperson told the Daily Mail. Alfonso has also received an endorsement from President Donald Trump.
His personal capacity? Yea no. Every one know he’s another pitiful excuse of a ‘cabinet’ member, and not in a good way. He is making a mess that will have to be, at some point, cleaned up. Yuck. It won’t be us. Duffy is too arrogant to see the trail of slime he leaves behind. Nothing has been handled properly by him.
“But Republicans aligned with Alfonso’s rivals have complained that Duffy helped secure an endorsement from President Donald Trump in January for the 26-year-old, who is married to Duffy’s daughter, Evita,” the Daily Mail reported. Furthermore, senior White House officials were left “irritated,” the Daily Mail reported, by Duffy “not giving them a heads-up before pushing the president to endorse Alfonso.”
Yup. Definitely nepotism. And an unfair advantage in the primary, too, although it isn’t until August, which leaves almost 3 or so months to midterms once the primary is won. He’s an unknown, which is going to make things interesting. Trump’s endorsement isn’t necessarily the bonus that it used to be. He’s fickle. And erratic. Lawdy, the strange things that man pulls out of his brain. But voters are suffering increased prices everywhere, when Trump has said he doesn’t care about the American people, and he loves inflation, that endorsement will turn around and bite the candidate in the arse. That is entertainment in and of itself. Think about the visual.
And Merg Ellefson, a prominent podcaster and former radio host, didn’t mince words when sharing her thoughts on Duffy’s involvement in the race. “[Duffy] is exploiting his Cabinet position and fame to influence an election and hand one of the nation’s highest offices to his unqualified, 26-year-old son-in-law,” Ellefson told Axios, adding that she was left “utterly disgusted by this blatant manipulation of voters.”
Heh. Blatant manipulation. Got that right, in spades. Duffy says it’s his personal support when he knows damn well that he will do anything he has to with the “Transportation Secretary” (could we please have Pete Buttigieg back?) moniker to give his son-in-law a boost. Anything he can do with it, he will do with it. He should have said “I support my son-in-law for the Senate” and left it alone. But no. All of Trump’s cabinet has that ego thing going. “Look at me. I’m cool. And I’m not doing my job unless I have to because I have the power over your “petty” accidents.” Yet another person only in it for the name and the power that goes with it. Feh.
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