Posted on 11/30/2024 7:08:02 PM PST by thegagline
The mother of Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, wrote him an email in 2018 saying he had routinely mistreated women for years and displayed a lack of character.
“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,” Penelope Hegseth wrote, stating that she still loved him.
She also 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.” Mrs. Hegseth, in a phone interview with The New York Times on Friday, said that she had sent her son an immediate follow-up email at the time apologizing for what she had written. She said she had fired off the original email “in anger, with emotion” at a time when he and his wife were going through a very difficult divorce.
In the interview, she defended her son and disavowed the sentiments she had expressed in the initial email about his character and treatment of women. “It is not true. It has never been true,” she said.
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Mrs. Hegseth forwarded a copy of her email to Samantha the same night she sent it to her son, according to documents reviewed by The Times. The Times obtained a copy of the email from another person with ties to the Hegseth family. The email does not describe in detail the circumstances that prompted Mrs. Hegseth to write it.
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(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
She probably tried making him wear a dress.
I’d like to know more about this libtard mom who sided with his ex. Talking to him in person is one thing, email and cc’ing his ex-wife is a low life move.
For a parent to speak/write to their adult child in such a vicious tone, and then later say ‘it’s not true, has never been true.’ makes me think Mrs. Hegseth is manic depressive or otherwise prone to bouts of instability. Sometimes, words can never be taken back. The relationship will have been changed from that point on.
Hey Gag any polls with Harris beating Trump which as we now know where totally made up?
The New York Times is evil incarnate.
The lengths to which they went to dig up this dirt are astonishing — more so because they ONLY dig for dirt against one side.
“News”paper my ass. Journalists, my ass. Reporters? My ass.
Vile evil agenda-driven tabloid scum.
I wonder if Mrs. Penelope Hegseth is still living. If she is I hope she brings the hammer down HARD on these vermin. If she truly loves her son, she will.
I can’t help but wonder if she voted for Bill Clinton ??He has quite a track record with the ladies !!!
Trump needs to have a plan B.
The disgusting NYT; they’re the dirtiest rag out there. How they sleep at night, I can’t imagine. And mom, I know you couldn’t foretell the future, but you’re an idiot. And Hegseth, I sincerely hope you’ve learned your lesson.
If you don’t read more than the headline....you do what the media loves you to do.
Or surveilled and leaked the DOJ/NSA. Could be either.
NYT publishes email from Pete Hegseth’s mom
Patrick Djordjevic
Sat, November 30, 2024
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/nyt-publish-email-pete-hegseths-mom/
• The reported email was sent in 2018
• Penelope Hegseth says her email is not an accurate depiction
• She described the NYT publishing it as “disgusting”
(NewsNation) — According to The New York Times, Pete Hegseth’s mother sent him an email in 2018, accusing President-elect Trump’s Defense Secretary pick of “routinely mistreating women for years.”
Penelope Hegseth told The Times that their publishing of the email was “disgusting,” She added a follow-up message was sent to her son wherein she apologized, admitting the initial email was sent “in anger, with emotion” amid Hegseth’s divorce from his second wife.
According to The Times. Penelope Hegseth wrote to her son in the initial email: “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.
“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.”
Female combat veteran responds to Pete Hegseth’s comments
Speaking with The Times, Penelope Hegseth said her 2018 email did not reflect Hegseth’s character.
“It is not true. It has never been true,” she told The Times. “I know my son. He is a good father, husband,” she said.
Trump’s communications director Steven Cheung described The Times’ publishing of the email as “despicable.”
“The New York Times is despicable for using an out-of-context snippet of an illegally-obtained private email exchange between a mother and her son that does not accurately reflect the entirety of the conversation,” Cheung said in an emailed statement to The Hill.
“In subsequent emails, Mrs. Hegseth expressed regret for her emotional message and apologized,” he added.
The Times said they obtained the email through someone close to the Hegseth family.
Well. Jesse watter’s mom voted for Brandon
Well, if you read the excerpt here, she talked to the NYT yesterday and explained the email.
I realize reading what is posted in the body of thread can be difficult.
At least he didn’t impregnate his child’s nanny.
This sort of thing probably sits only in Hegseths FBI file. The cRat Loyalists at the NYT must have a way of accessing that (illegally).
The fact that she wrote a vicious letter to her son and forwarded said letter to the son's (estranged?)wife during a separation/divorce is absolutely reprehensible.
“In the interview, she defended her son and disavowed the sentiments she had expressed in the initial email about his character and treatment of women. “It is not true. It has never been true,” she said.”
But the Slimes didn’t see fit to use this in their gas lighting headline.
I truly despise these propaganda organs. Hopefully they’ll all crash and burn .
Pete’s mother sounds like my mom. My mother was a manic depressive on all sorts of drugs. She was very good at going for the jugular when she was on a roll during one of her episodes! She didn’t hesitate to call me names and accuse me of all kinds of wrong doing in front of other people. This story of Pete’s mother is very possibly one of her episodes!
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