In the United States, Donald Trump made a series of appointments to his administration this Tuesday, December 3. On the other hand, he said nothing about the case which is shaking the American political microcosm and the increasingly insistent questions about the viability of his choice for the post of Minister of Defense.
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With our correspondent in Washington, Guillaume Naudin
“ No, I’ve always been a fighter “, is what Pete Hegseth responds when asked if he will withdraw his candidacy to head the Pentagon. The former soldier and current television host spent Wednesday in the Senate trying to convince elected Republican officials to confirm it at the post.
He changed
It must be said that he faces accusations of excessive consumption of alcohol, adulterous relationships and sexual assault. He pledged not to drink another drop of alcohol if he were confirmed. His own mother, who had written to him to reproach him for his behavior in 2018, came on the morning show of the conservative Fox News channel, the one where her son works, to say that she had immediately apologized for having written that and to say that her son has changed.
But the particular and controversial profile of Pete Hegseth, added to his inexperience in accessing such a position, does not seem to convince all those who must confirm his appointment.
Ron DeSantis, the return?
According to press reports, first revealed by the Wall Street JournalDonald Trump is considering other options. And among them, that of naming a much more political profile: the name of Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida and former competitor of Donald Trump during the Republican primary, comes up in particular with insistence.
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