Former Rep. Sean Duffy's (R-Wis.) short tenure at CNN has been pretty rocky. It reached new levels of awkwardness Tuesday when CNN hosts kept showing his comments from Tuesday morning about National Security Council official and Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman -- and slamming them in no uncertain
Former Rep. Sean Duffy's short tenure at CNN has been pretty rocky. It reached new levels of awkwardness Tuesday when CNN hosts kept showing his comments from Tuesday morning about National Security Council official and Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman — and slamming them in no uncertain terms.
Vindman, who gave pretty damaging testimony about President Trump's interactions with Ukraine at a House impeachment deposition Tuesday, emigrated from Soviet Ukraine to the U.S. at age 3. Duffy questioned Vindman's loyalties on CNN's New Day, and New Day host John Berman started criticizing his comments almost immediately.
CNN anchor Brianna Keilar played Duffy's comments again Tuesday afternoon."That is some anti-immigrant bigotry," she said,"and it's an odd questioning of patriotism coming from Sean Duffy, the guy who spent part of his 20s on MTV's The Real World and Real World/Road Rules Challenge while Alexander Vindman spent his on foreign deployments, including one to Iraq where he earned a Purple Heart after he was injured by a roadside bomb.
Duffy tried to walk back his comments, tweeting that Vindman is"an American war hero" but"an unelected adviser" to Trump. CNN Vice President Rebecca Kutler told Politico that"having people who support the president's policies" is part of CNN's goal of representing"all points of view," and Duffy can"share with our audience what's important to the voters he's represented and how that will impact the 2020 election.
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