US transportation secretary changed wife’s flight from Newark after insisting airport was safe

Airport has seen multiple serious failures in past weeks that Sean Duffy had been trying to fix when he made admissionSean Duffy, the Trump administration’s transportation secretary, has made a startling admission that he switched flights for his wife this week to help her avoid flying out of beleaguered Newark Liberty, one of the busiest airports in the New York area.Duffy’s disclosure on Monday runs counter to his repeated assurances to the American public that it is safe to fly from Newark, despite a spate of dramatic outages affecting the airport’s radar systems. On Sunday, the transportation secretary went on NBC News’s Meet the Press and insisted Newark was safe. Continue reading...

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