Pete Hegseth called his mom to come do some damage control.
Penelope Hegseth appeared on her embattled son’s former show Fox & Friends on Wednesday and was asked about the email she sent him in 2018 in which she begged him to stop lying, cheating, sleeping around with, using, and abusing the women in his life. Instead of answering the question, she chose to point the finger back at the media in a public plea for her son’s nomination for defense secretary.
“We all believe in him, we really believe that he is not that man he was seven years ago, I’m not that mother.… I am here to tell the truth. To tell the truth to the American people, to the senators on the hill, especially our female senators. I really hope that you will not listen to the media, and that you will listen to Pete.
She then turned her scorn to the media, and to The New York Times, saying that they threatened her, and described them as “almost criminal” for reporting on the 2018 email she sent to her son, who could likely become the head of the Pentagon. “They are in it for the commission, for the money, and they don’t care who they hurt, families, children,” she claimed.
Pete Hegseth is on the Hill today trying to convince senators that he’s a changed man, as his nomination has been upended by troubling allegations of rape, sexual harassment, and financial mismanagement in previous workplaces. And beyond all that, he is an unabashed Christian nationalist who would bring a violent, incendiary energy to the Pentagon. The status of his nomination is yet to be determined.
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