If you don’t know Sean Duffy, former GOP congressman from Wisconsin, consider yourself momentarily lucky. The Republican hypocrite, who voted to do away with people’s healthcare while thanking God on television for his own free healthcare, has been hired by CNN to do what most Trump supporters do on CNN: parrot the talking points given to them. On Tuesday morning, Duffy was brought on to give the conservative side of events and this exchange took place concerning Army Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, the Ukraine expert on the National Security Council in the White House who has offered up yet another example of Donald Trump’s possibly treasonous behavior.
SEAN DUFFY: Mr. Vindman, he's an adviser to the president. He is a former Ukrainian. He wants to make sure that taxpayer money goes to —
JOHN BERMAN: --Why does it matter where he was born? I'm sorry congressman Duffy, why does it matter where he's born? he's an active duty military member, an American who was awarded the Purple Heart.
DUFFY: Well you know what? I’m of Irish descent. I still love the Irish, and he has an affinity probably for his homeland. That’s not my point though, John, my point is that he gives advice to the president. He doesn't set policy. The president has a lot of advisers that give different opinions and different views.
Duffy’s strength, if you can call it that, is that he can say a lot of meaningless words fast. So after saying a lot of nothing in the form of loosely connected disparate sentences, he finishes by somehow alluding to President Obama investigating Trump, and somehow arguing that former Vice President Joe Biden should be investigated. Berman doesn’t go for it.
BERMAN: Number one, there has been no credible accusation against the former vice president for corruption, period. Full stop.
The former Real World Boston cast member has been able to make a political career out of the same middle-of-the-road vapidness that launched him. Now, like most reality stars, he memorizes lines that producers (or in this case, the Trump administration’s producers) feed him and then he shamelessly says them out loud in front of cameras.