Posted on 06/29/2026 5:07:48 AM PDT by Red Badger
Pete Buttigieg's harrowing swatting story from last week is now coming under scrutiny, suggesting he may not be telling the entire truth.
As TGP's Jordan Conradson reported, Buttigieg claims he was swatted this week by Child Protective Service agents and separated from his four-year-old twins.
Buttigieg ran to Substack to write a column about the incident.
Describing himself as "bewildered and troubled," Buttigieg said that "the CPS worker told me something that made my stomach turn: I was not to be alone around the children, at least until the interview took place the next day."
After a "sleepless night," he says, the officers told him that an anonymous tipster told police that he had spoken to a woman. She said that Buttigieg had "committed unspeakable violent crimes, and the caller believed my children were still at risk."
"After the officer spoke, the CPS worker likewise indicated she had not found anything to substantiate the allegation, though her process would take a bit longer to be formally completed. I no longer needed to avoid being around my children unsupervised. Chasten was invited to come back downstairs and hear the same information that had just been shared with me. Then, per standard procedure, she verified that there was adequate food in our kitchen and asked to take a look at the kids' bedroom," Buttigieg wrote.
But questions are emerging that suggest Buttigieg might be embellishing at least part of his story, particularly the part about CPS separating him from his children.
One X user who said he has dealt with cases like Buttigieg's said the former transportation secretary was lying. He stated that CPS does NOT separate someone from children over unsubstantiated accusations.
To him, this suggested something more sinister was at play.
Buttigieg is lying. I deal with these kinds of cases all the time. CPS does NOT separate you from your kids over an anonymous, unsubstantiated accusation. Something serious was reported and there was corroboration for it to have gotten this far. ...Do not let him pretend at being the victim here, something serious is happening and he is trying to frame it as politics.
https://x.com/PeteButtigieg//PeteButtigieg/status/2070594227285737605
Andrew Kloster, a former Trump Administration lawyer, alleged that Buttigieg had acted “weird” around his kids when he and Chasten were his next-door neighbors. He also speculated that Buttigieg planted the story to gin up sympathy.
Kurt Schlichter, a California lawyer and prominent conservative writer, noted that Americans still have no clue what the specific allegations on the CPS call were.
A poster who said she had been in and out of the foster care system noted how unusual the alleged actions from CPS were based on the law, again calling Buttigieg’s claims into question.
Point: He claims CPS made it so he couldn’t see his kids until they were questioned the next day based on a single report. BULLSHIT.
I was in and out of that system and I’ve seen so many direct experiences with them it’s insane. That is considered extreme action, rarely happens, and usually a court order. Yeah I’m not buying your dramatic story or your need to be the victim so you have a good story when you run for President again.
He needs attention and he’s using his kids to do it.
While these questions being raised may eventually turn out to be nothing, we all know the media would not simply take a Republican politician’s word if they claimed to have been swatted. Buttigieg producing some actual proof would help clear things up.
But do not count on this happening.
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He’s a homo. Of course he should not be around children.
My guess is they were called for abuse. If few calls were made and it was pushed under the rug.
The likes of him gave CPS this kind of power. Eat you own sh!t
Funny, I don’t remember the media making a big fuss when Republicans were being swatted.
This twisted pervert homo weirdo should never have been allowed to have children.
It should be completely illegal to allow homos custody of children.
Attention-seeking behavior.
Feeding the alligators, and being surprised when they come for you.
That was my first thought as well.
He crops up in the news a lot more than he should be.
Some people can’t handle their 15 minutes of national attention being up.
Racist highways......what an absolutely delusional idea. SMH
Nothing about his “husband” Makes you wonder.
There are two possibilities:
1. There was no “swatting” as alleged. It was a routine visit based on a complaint and Buttguy is being a drama queen.
2. If guys with rifles indeed showed up, it was a heavily sourced, credible, report from multiple sources. And, more likely than not, the child is being abused.
Source: I have served on two grand juries, one state and one federal. I saw this kind of thing with some regularity.
3. The system will do everything in its power to protect this narrative as trusted gay couples with kids. The problem will worsen if Pete believes he is too big to fail.
Pete is queer.
Queer is his only credential
In a sane society, that would be the case.
Instead, we were treated, when he was our nation’s Secretary of Transportation, to a stomach-turning photograph of him in a hospital bed with his homosexual ‘wife’ and their two newly adopted infant twins, who’d been sacrificed on the altar of ‘wokeness’. One of the most warped and disturbing images out there, plastered all over the place like it was some kind of wonderful event that every American should celebrate. Recall, too, that this was followed by his taking two months’ ‘Paternity Leave’. Purely demonic stuff.
1000%.
hubby prolly had something in his mouth and was unable to speak at the time.
He or his “husband” probably is the one that called CPS too.
“Pete Buttigieg’s harrowing swatting story from last week is now coming under scrutiny, suggesting he may not be telling the entire truth.”
Buttplugger not telling the truth ... a Democrat not telling the truth ... what is the world coming to?
Do not forget the chest feeding photos. Grotesque to use children for your perversion.
We already know that. Anyone who would stick his ...
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