More nasty allegations have come out about Pete Hegseth’s private life. The testimony of the former sister-in-law has been provided to the senators, according to which Hegseth was drunk and threatened his wife.
Mika Mäkeläinen,
Minna Pärssinen
President Donald Trump’s in the congressional hearing of the chosen defense minister, there was not much talk about politics, but about the personality of the candidate. Pete Hegseth’s new revelations about the background came again on Tuesday.
Hegseth’s brother’s ex-wife, Danielle Hegseth has sent affidavit to senators for being Pete Hegseth’s ex-wife Samantha was afraid of her husband’s violence.
In her eight-page testimony, Danielle Hegseth paints a picture of a drunken man who was prone to aggressive outbursts of anger. The wife even hid from her husband in a wardrobe once. Samantha Hegseth also gave her sister-in-law a code word that she would use if necessary if she wanted to report the need for help.
Samantha Hegseth was Pete Hegseth’s second wife, the couple was married from 2010 to 2018. They have three children.
Pete Hegseth denies wrongdoing, and according to his attorney, Samantha Hegseth has repeatedly said he was not abused.
At the hearing of the Senate Defense Committee on Tuesday of last week, Hegseth received criticism from the past as well from his comments. Among other things, he has said that women should not serve in combat missions. In addition, he has been accused of being drunk at the workplace as well for settling the rape charge with moneybut Hegseth has dismissed all the criticism as nothing more than a political chase. He promised to stop drinking alcohol if he is elected defense minister.
Even Hegseth’s own mother has accused his son as an abuser of women.
Hegseth talks about “warrior culture”
At the hearing, Hegseth said he was a “change agent” who would bring a “warrior culture” to the Pentagon. He has emphasized the combat capability, high standards and readiness of the armed forces.
Hegseth has been critical of the international rules of war, which he believes limit too much the actions of the US armed forces. During Trump’s first term, Hegseth lobbied Trump to have mercy soldiers suspected of war crimes, whom he considered patriotic as warriors.
During the hearing, the exchange of words between Hegseth and the Democratic senators was exceptionally heated. The senators criticized him especially for his lack of leadership experience, because in the Ministry of Defense he has about three million people to manage.
In the past, Hegseth has only piloted two small veterans affairs NGOs. of The New Yorker magazine according to the report, he had to leave his organizational duties due to financial and other serious abuses.
A TV host who supports Trump
Like Trump, Hegseth has criticized other NATO countries that they do not invest as much in defense as the United States.
Hegseth is a reserve major in the National Guard. He has served in Iraq and Afghanistan and at the Guantánamo base in Cuba, mostly as a platoon leader in the infantry. President Joe Biden during the inauguration, he was not allowed to serve as a guard because the National Guard considered him a possibility as a security risk because of a nationalist tattoo.
Like many of Trump’s picks, Hegseth is familiar to Americans from television. Most recently, he has worked as the weekend host of the Fox & Friends current affairs program of the conservative Fox News channel.
Last summer, he published a book criticizing the so-called woke ideology, The War on Warriors, according to which American society has abandoned its real heroes, the soldiers.
44-year-old Hegseth is from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has studied at the prestigious Princeton and Harvard universities.
The Senate is scheduled to vote on Hegseth’s selection later this week.