The Senate confirmation hearing for Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, has begun.
@#35 ... Somebody should ask him how much he paid himself from those two charities for veterans that he left swimming in credit card debt and bankrupt. ...
Pete Hegseth's Secret History (December 2024)
www.newyorker.com
... After the recent revelation that Pete Hegseth had secretly paid a financial settlement to a woman who had accused him of raping her in 2017, President-elect Donald Trump stood by his choice of Hegseth to become the next Secretary of Defense. Trump's communications director, Steven Cheung, issued a statement noting that Hegseth, who has denied wrongdoing, has not been charged with any crime. "President Trump is nominating high-caliber and extremely qualified candidates to serve in his administration," Cheung maintained.
But Hegseth's record before becoming a full-time Fox News TV host, in 2017, raises additional questions about his suitability to run the world's largest and most lethal military force. A trail of documents, corroborated by the accounts of former colleagues, indicates that Hegseth was forced to step down by both of the two nonprofit advocacy groups that he ran --Veterans for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America -- in the face of serious allegations of financial mismanagement, sexual impropriety, and personal misconduct.
So, someone MAGA seems to currently adulate?
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