Wife says Transportation chief Sean Duffy ‘not a corrupt man’ amid family road trip criticism

The wife of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Tuesday said that her husband is not a “corrupt man” after a watchdog group urged the inspector general to investigate the couple’s newest reality series, “The Great American Road Trip.”

“I don’t think anybody can accuse my husband of not having done his job well. In fact, people have been remarkably happy with it,” Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy said during a radio appearance on SiriusXM’s RealClearPolitics.

“And my husband is not a corrupt man. He’s had many years in politics and nobody has ever accused my husband of that. And he certainly would not take favor with anybody because they contributed to an America 250 project, which is about celebrating America,” she added.

Her comments follow Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington’s (CREW) push to investigate Duffy, as well as the show’s potential sponsorship by Toyota, United Airlines, Boeing, and other members of the transportation industry regulated by DOT.

The watchdog group said that this violates federal law.

“Secretary Duffy’s participation in a promotion of the privately sponsored ‘Great American Road Trip’ raises........

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