Posted on 11/24/2024 8:40:49 AM PST by DFG
His marriage had fallen apart when his wife discovered his mistress had given birth to his daughter and his divorce was about to cost him millions.
His life was teetering on the brink as he turned a little too much to alcohol as a crutch.
And that wasn’t the worst of it for Pete Hegseth – Donald Trump’s pick for Defense Secretary – as his life threatened to spiral out of control in 2017.
Just weeks later Hegseth, now 44, was accused of groping multiple women and sexually assaulting one as alcohol once again allegedly clouded his judgment.
The allegations of assault could not have come at a more delicate time for Hegseth personally. His accuser made her claims as his divorce proceedings were pending with an initial case conference set to take place less than three weeks later on October 27.
And fearing for his job as a weekend anchor on Fox News, Hegseth decided he should pay the woman off rather than fight the allegations in court.
It is that alleged October 8 assault – which never resulted in charges – that threatens Hegseth’s nomination for a seat in Trump's cabinet. But a DailyMail.com investigation reveals that that was just the tip of the iceberg of the messy life that Hegseth was living.
A police report released this week by the City of Monterey, California, shows that a then-30-year-old woman was having champagne with co-workers while on a business trip when things got 'fuzzy' and she suddenly ended up in a room with Hegseth.
Timothy Parlatore, a lawyer representing Hegseth, has admitted his client paid the woman for her silence because he did not want to lose his job, while at the same time dismissing the allegations as 'baseless' and tantamount to a 'successful extortion'.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
UK paper need to report on their own scandals.
Hegseth for Defense! Period!
Why bring charges when the 'blackmail card' can be played for cash or promotions? Would this woman run to the police if the person doing 'the assault' had been someone she knew who was powerless? Time to get details.
Cabinet is not formed yet. No where near it
Btw adultery is against the law in the military. UCMJ prohibits it. Not because it’s antiquated, as many might say, but because of trust issues vital to the military.
Maybe that over now and doesn’t apply any more.
And maybe Hegseth would do a great job as head of DOD.
I understand, but i was asking for name not a lecture on something i already realize. So, do tou have a name?
Ol’ Pete is about as horny as a tomcat that smells females in heat. I don’t see how he has time for anything else. Must be superman or something.
Read my post at 15. The way you can spot a true Christian is they accept the turn to God and they are forgiven. Those who can not accept that God forgives those who repent need a lot of repentance themselves.
Don’t care and if everyone who voted for Trump felt the same, this would just be a non-issue. It’s SECDEF, not sainthood.
BTW the woman in the hotel was not raped. Megyn Kelly went through it page by page. She was attracted to Pete and was all in for the 2 hour romp in his room.
“ If we lose Hegseth, even the most ardent Trump supporter would have to wonder if Trump is once again screwing up in making bad nominations as he did in his first term.”
He doesn’t make bad choices in my opinion. He makes choices based on reasons we are not privy to
Look at outcomes.
A Republican President is not allowed to appoint anyone to anything because everyone is a rapist.
It’s in the Constitution. Check the penumbra.
So what?
Why do I care?
I don’t.
You can’t convince me too.
Cause you’ve done worse.
Hit the road.
I would have agreed with you in the past. Not any longer. After the parade of degineracy the Democrats put in positions of power, how dare we play the perfection game against our own. It's gotten us nowhere. Hegseth is the man for the job. We're not going to be paying him to be our Minister of Morality.
Indeed. And if the outcome for Hegseth is the same as Gaetz..... What does that say about Trump's picks. Then and now.
NO!!
We must only PERFECT people in government, like-—ummm-—well—ummm—give me a little more time to come up with a name, ok?
Ron DeSantis.
The male world is different than the female world.
If the guy had a period where he was drinking in some simple blue collar bars during a rough period and had gotten into a few shouting matches with perhaps even a shove, and one of them turning into a consensual fist fight during that period, it probably would not amount to much.
In fact has such a history never happened to one of these guys or just never made it into the news?
Like Clinton???
We already knew about the FOX mess. Pete and Jesse have both made that faux pas by getting involved with female co workers.
Smart guys about just about everything but one. LOL
If they were democrats they would be considered above reproach.
It’s hard to believe that there isn’t another MAGA conservative with similar qualifications and with equal DOD reform zeal that didn’t behave like a drunken frat boy in his 40s!
There’s a time to be a drunken frat boy and there’s a time not to be. Remember we complained about Slick! Do we leave the bar set where Slick put it?
Remember they weren’t dealing with the possibility of a nuclear war.
but what is your point?
My point is sometimes you use the man that gets the job done even if not perfect.
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