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 Drunken PeteNothing but the highest quality people and nominees for the corpulent clown. Defense head pick Pete Hegseth now dogged by questions over alcohol use Questions have also been raised over reports the embattled former Fox News host mismanaged two veterans groups Questions continued to dog Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, on Monday following reports he was twice ousted from previous organisations he led over financial mismanagement and improper behavior, with reporters asking him directly if he had an alcohol problem. Hegseth, 44, who was visiting Capitol Hill to drum up support for his troubled nomination, did not respond when a journalist asked: “Do you have an alcohol problem?” as he arrived for a meeting with Republican senators. Later, another reporter, from CBS, buttonholed him in a corridor and asked him: “Were you ever drunk while traveling on the job?” “I’m not gonna dignify that with a response,” Hegseth, until recently a Fox News host, answered, adding: “I’m talking to all the senators and I look forward to their discussions.” The New Yorker magazine recently reported whistleblower accusations that Hegseth was forced out of leadership roles in two military veterans organisations following allegations of financial mismanagement, aggressive drunkenness and sexist behaviour. The disclosures have further complicated Hegseth’s chances of winning over Republican senators at confirmation hearings after an earlier revelation that police in California investigated a sexual assault allegation made against him in 2017. The investigation did not result in criminal charges and Hegseth later reached a financial settlement with the woman who made the complaint. The magazine reported that Hegseth had to be carried to his room at a Memorial Day veterans event in Virginia Beach in 2014 after getting “totally sloshed”, and on another occasion reportedly had to be restrained from joining female dancers on stage at a Louisiana strip club. One witness recounted him shouting: “Kill all Muslim, kill all Muslims” at a bar in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, in 2015. The episode was the subject of a written complaint to the Koch-backed group Concerned Veterans for America (CVA), of which Hegseth was then chief executive officer. Hegseth was also said to have financially run another veterans outfit, Vets for Freedom, into the ground financially during his tenure as chief executive. |
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Not sure why I bother Not only don’t they care, they’ll celebrate his malfeasance and claim the media are a bunch of meanies with tds |
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Btw Also, Sec of Defense has oversight of the entire military, including the Muslims he wants dead and the women he’d be molesting. |
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Nothing but the best How Mr. Hegseth fares through a series of tests on Wednesday will be critical for his chances. He is set to continue his meetings with key senators, including Joni Ernst of Iowa, a combat veteran who has spoken about being sexually assaulted herself, and his mother is expected to sit for an interview on Fox News. He is also set to start defending himself on television. Mr. Trump has made clear to people close to him that he believes Mr. Hegseth should have been more forthcoming about the problems he would face getting confirmed, according to two people with knowledge of his thinking. |
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Lol Maybe tRump should actually pick qualified people who aren’t drunken sexual predators? Just an idea |
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Or even |
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Patz The Military Office of Drunken Rapists. They’ll give them oversight of all females in the military. That’ll learn those uppity females to stay in the kitchen where they belong |
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A gift from Heaven MAGA, y'all. |
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one I can’t wait till Jan 20 when the shit storm hits. It’s gonna be an epic failure. Sadly, we will all suffer for it, but it’ll be almost worth it to see the debacle |
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Question Pete Hegseth’s continued viability as President-elect Donald J. Trump’s defense secretary nominee may depend on whether he can persuade Senator Joni Ernst, a Republican from Iowa and a key skeptic, to back his confirmation during a meeting on Capitol Hill this afternoon. If he emerges from the meeting with an endorsement, it could shore up support for his beleaguered nomination, which has been flagging amid allegations that Mr. Hegseth committed sexual assault, engaged in public drinking to excess, sexually pursued female subordinates and mismanaged two nonprofit veteran advocacy groups. |
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Hegseth wrote Lol |
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He must have been drunk |
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Desanctimonious By the way, both those nicknames for Ron DeSantis were coined by tRump. tRump also said of JD Vance “"J.D. is kissing my ass. Of course, he wants my support," and Vance said of tRump … if whether he was “America’s Hitler” and in 2017 said the then-president was a “moral disaster.” In public, he agreed Trump was a “total fraud” who didn’t care about regular people and called him “reprehensible.” “I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical a**hole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler,” Vance wrote in a message to a friend in 2016. “How’s that for discouraging?” |
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Female Cadets |
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Nothing but the best The following December, Mr. Hegseth got so drunk at a wedding of a Fox News producer that he struggled to stand upright in a men’s bathroom, according to two people with direct knowledge of the episode who declined to be named for fear of retribution. Friends asked a producer who was there to get Mr. Hegseth a ride home so he could make it to the set by 6 a.m., they said. Mr. Hegseth also has been battered by accounts in the press about his womanizing and infidelity, as well as a 2017 incident in which he was accused of rape at a speaking event in Monterey, Calif., though no charges were ever filed. Mr. Parlatore has said that the encounter was consensual. Mr. Hegseth’s successive tenures as the head of two nonprofit veterans groups, from 2008 to 2016, ended with both in financial trouble. At the first, Vets for Freedom, revenues rose sharply under his leadership, reaching $8.7 million in 2008. But spending rose even faster. The group fell into debt, then fizzled. In 2012, four years later, it received just $81 in donations, according to financial documents filed with the Internal Revenue Service. The second, Concerned Veterans for America, also often spent more than it took in and was $37,000 in debt by 2016, when Mr. Hegseth was listed in tax filings as the outgoing chief executive officer. The New Yorker magazine reported this week that several ex-employees filed a whistle-blower complaint to the group’s leadership, claiming that Mr. Hegseth had been drunk at multiple work-related events while there. |
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Worth repeating |
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Religious crusader As he embraced a combative brand of Christianity in recent years, he wrote that people who enjoy the benefits of Western civilization should “thank a Crusader.” On his arm, he has a tattoo with the words “Deus Vult,” which he has described as a “battle cry” of the Crusades. “Voting is a weapon, but it’s not enough,” he wrote in a book, “American Crusade,” published in May 2020. “We don’t want to fight, but, like our fellow Christians one thousand years ago, we must.” Mr. Trump has so far stuck by Mr. Hegseth as his nominee for secretary of defense despite a growing series of disclosures about his past, including allegations of sexual impropriety, alcohol abuse and financial mismanagement. Mr. Hegseth has vigorously denied the allegations, calling them an attempt to disrupt Mr. Trump’s agenda. |
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MAGA |
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Of course he did If you’re not grabbing them by the pussy or raping them, you’re obviously a weakling lib lacking balls. It’s literally how they judge people. No sex assault, you can’t be on their team. President-elect tRump stood up for his pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, who has confronted damning news articles accusing him of troubling behavior, including rape, financial mismanagement and drunkenness. Mr. Trump’s social media post praising Mr. Hegseth amounted to a public dare to Republican senators to vote against his wishes. |
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Cutting benefits? |
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They Richly Deserve It www.pewresearch.org |
