Former Fox News host and alleged 'warfighter' Pete Hegseth meets with Senator Joni Ernst in an attempt to persuade senators to overlook allegations of sexual assault, harassment, and drunken behavior.
Former Fox host Pete Hegseth ’s professional record and private life have been heavily scrutinisedsat down with Iowa senator Joni Ernst for a conversation in her office on Capitol Hill.
An in-depth New Yorker report published this week detailed a series of whistleblower accounts of repeated intoxications while he was in charge of two nonprofit military groups, Veterans for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America.
Pete Hegseth also gave a media interview on Wednesday, sitting down with Megyn Kelly on her podcast to emphasise that the allegations against him are baseless and that he had been warned by Donald Trump that he would “need to be tough as s**t” to get through this process; Hegseth believes he has Trump’s full backing, saying that the incoming president told him: “You go out and meet those senators and I’ve got your back.
But Hagerty is among the speculative names mentioned as replacement candidates under consideration by Trump if it becomes apparent that Hegseth cannot make a substantive case for himself on Capitol Hill. Joni Ernst is also in that group, while Trump’s primary-election adversary Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, is regarded as a front-runner in the list of alternatives.
In his interview with Megyn Kelly, Hegseth claimed that “he never had a drinking problem” before detailing how he dealt with the “demons on the battlefield”.
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