Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee for Protection secretary, is already underneath fireplace for a number of notable controversies, together with ties to right-wing extremism, anti-Muslim bigotry, and his protection of mercenaries that killed civilians. However new reporting has revealed extra allegations of abuse towards ladies and public drunkenness which might be prone to come up at future Senate affirmation hearings—if the previous Fox Information pundit makes it that far.
The New York Instances reported on Friday that in a 2018 electronic mail Hegseth’s mom, Penelope Hegseth, described her son as an abuser of ladies.
“On behalf of all the women (and I know it’s many) you have abused in some way, I say … get some help and take an honest look at yourself,” she wrote. “I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth.”
