Trump's Defense Secretary Pick Pete Hegseth Said to Face Previous Sexual Misconduct Allegation

[deminks]

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/pete-hegseth-misconduct-allegation-meeting


Donald Trump’s transition team scrambled Thursday after Trump’s incoming chief of staff Susie Wiles was presented with an allegation that former Fox & Friends cohost Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nominee to be Defense Secretary, had engaged in sexual misconduct. According to two sources, Wiles was briefed Wednesday night about an allegation that Hegseth had acted inappropriately with a woman. One of the sources said the alleged incident took place in Monterey, California in 2017.

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Ahead of the Thursday meeting, one high-level MAGA member familiar with the allegation said Hegseth wasn’t properly scrutinized before Trump made the controversial pick. “He wasn’t vetted,” the source said. But the senior transition source disputed this. “Hegseth was vetted, but this alleged incident didn’t come up.”

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Only the best, right, Donald? I

[DesertRain]

1. Like it would matter

If anything, they'll get off on this and dig their heels in deeper.

[viva la]

2. Trump was an adjudicated sexual abusers--

accused not just of harassment but abuse by dozens of other women.

His voters and his party were fine with that. And they'll be fine with sex trafficker Gaetz and harasser Hegseth. Abusing women is the GOP jam.

[AZJonnie]

3. Other than perhaps the Floyd protests, nothing stuck in the MAGA craw more than 'Me Too'

Add to that the fact that he vanquished Biden's female VP, and that so many of his 'opponents' were female like E. Jean, Stormy, Fani, Judge Tanya, Liz C so you can bet that the main focus of Trump's picks and actions generally is going to be centered on revenge against women. And the sick fucks in his cult are going to cheer on every last bit of it

[edhopper]

4. He is also

A Christian Nationalist and White Supremacist