Chasten Buttigieg Highlights Fox News Double Standard on Officials' Family Travel

Chasten Buttigieg criticized Fox News' inconsistent scrutiny of family members accompanying transportation secretaries on official trips, referencing Sean Duffy's recent Daytona 500 delegation.

• Chasten Buttigieg called out Fox News for its differing treatment of officials traveling with family on government-sanctioned trips.
• Sean Duffy, the current Transportation Secretary, brought two of his sons on a presidential delegation to the Daytona 500, sharing the experience on social media.
• Chasten Buttigieg compared this to the intense criticism his husband, Pete Buttigieg, faced in 2023 for taking him to the Invictus Games as part of a similar delegation.
• Pete Buttigieg previously defended the trip, citing long-standing diplomatic protocol allowing spouses to accompany officials on such delegations.
• Fox News has yet to subject Duffy's trip to the same level of scrutiny it applied to Pete Buttigieg's delegation two years earlier.

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