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zorroloco 03-Dec-24, 19:04	Drunken Pete “Kill all Muslims!” He shouted inna drunken stupor as he was carried out of the bar. Nothing but the highest quality people and nominees for the corpulent clown. Defense head pick Pete Hegseth now dogged by questions over alcohol use Questions have also been raised over reports the embattled former Fox News host mismanaged two veterans groups Questions continued to dog Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, on Monday following reports he was twice ousted from previous organisations he led over financial mismanagement and improper behavior, with reporters asking him directly if he had an alcohol problem. Hegseth, 44, who was visiting Capitol Hill to drum up support for his troubled nomination, did not respond when a journalist asked: “Do you have an alcohol problem?” as he arrived for a meeting with Republican senators. Later, another reporter, from CBS, buttonholed him in a corridor and asked him: “Were you ever drunk while traveling on the job?” “I’m not gonna dignify that with a response,” Hegseth, until recently a Fox News host, answered, adding: “I’m talking to all the senators and I look forward to their discussions.” The New Yorker magazine recently reported whistleblower accusations that Hegseth was forced out of leadership roles in two military veterans organisations following allegations of financial mismanagement, aggressive drunkenness and sexist behaviour. The disclosures have further complicated Hegseth’s chances of winning over Republican senators at confirmation hearings after an earlier revelation that police in California investigated a sexual assault allegation made against him in 2017. The investigation did not result in criminal charges and Hegseth later reached a financial settlement with the woman who made the complaint. The magazine reported that Hegseth had to be carried to his room at a Memorial Day veterans event in Virginia Beach in 2014 after getting “totally sloshed”, and on another occasion reportedly had to be restrained from joining female dancers on stage at a Louisiana strip club. One witness recounted him shouting: “Kill all Muslim, kill all Muslims” at a bar in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, in 2015. The episode was the subject of a written complaint to the Koch-backed group Concerned Veterans for America (CVA), of which Hegseth was then chief executive officer. Hegseth was also said to have financially run another veterans outfit, Vets for Freedom, into the ground financially during his tenure as chief executive.
zorroloco 03-Dec-24, 19:28	Not sure why I bother The tRumpettes see ‘Kill all Muslims,’ rape, drunkenness and financial incompetence as the earmarks of a perfect government administrator. Not only don’t they care, they’ll celebrate his malfeasance and claim the media are a bunch of meanies with tds
zorroloco 03-Dec-24, 19:36	Btw The Sec of Defense is on 24/7. Anything more than a single drink is probably a bad idea. Also, Sec of Defense has oversight of the entire military, including the Muslims he wants dead and the women he’d be molesting.
zorroloco 04-Dec-24, 05:34	Nothing but the best President-elect Donald J. Trump’s support for Pete Hegseth, who he announced as his nominee for defense secretary shortly after Election Day, is wobbling after a crush of controversy over a rape allegation and a 2018 email from Mr. Hegseth’s mother accusing him of a pattern of abuse toward women. How Mr. Hegseth fares through a series of tests on Wednesday will be critical for his chances. He is set to continue his meetings with key senators, including Joni Ernst of Iowa, a combat veteran who has spoken about being sexually assaulted herself, and his mother is expected to sit for an interview on Fox News. He is also set to start defending himself on television. Mr. Trump has made clear to people close to him that he believes Mr. Hegseth should have been more forthcoming about the problems he would face getting confirmed, according to two people with knowledge of his thinking.
zorroloco 04-Dec-24, 05:36	Lol “Mr. Trump has made clear to people close to him that he believes Mr. Hegseth should have been more forthcoming” Maybe tRump should actually pick qualified people who aren’t drunken sexual predators? Just an idea
zorroloco 04-Dec-24, 05:38	Or even Lol… vetting his picks. You know…. The way it should be done. The was a competent leader foes.
apatzer 04-Dec-24, 08:18	Deleted by apatzer on 04-Dec-24, 08:19.
zorroloco 04-Dec-24, 08:22	Patz But of course. They’ll probably create a new office for Hegseth and Gaetz. The Military Office of Drunken Rapists. They’ll give them oversight of all females in the military. That’ll learn those uppity females to stay in the kitchen where they belong
mo-oneandmore 04-Dec-24, 09:58	A gift from Heaven One thing Hegseth has going for him is that he's a trump licker, huh? MAGA, y'all.
zorroloco 04-Dec-24, 10:02	one tRump is the biggest tRump licker of all I can’t wait till Jan 20 when the shit storm hits. It’s gonna be an epic failure. Sadly, we will all suffer for it, but it’ll be almost worth it to see the debacle
zorroloco 04-Dec-24, 12:22	Question Will a sexual assault survivor approve a sexual predator as DoD chief. Let’s hope not, but she is a Republican, so it remains to be seen. Pete Hegseth’s continued viability as President-elect Donald J. Trump’s defense secretary nominee may depend on whether he can persuade Senator Joni Ernst, a Republican from Iowa and a key skeptic, to back his confirmation during a meeting on Capitol Hill this afternoon. If he emerges from the meeting with an endorsement, it could shore up support for his beleaguered nomination, which has been flagging amid allegations that Mr. Hegseth committed sexual assault, engaged in public drinking to excess, sexually pursued female subordinates and mismanaged two nonprofit veteran advocacy groups.
zorroloco 04-Dec-24, 13:27	Hegseth wrote “We will not stop until trans-lesbian black females run everything!” Lol
zorroloco 04-Dec-24, 13:39	He must have been drunk Or Gaetz gave him some coke and a teen girl
zorroloco 04-Dec-24, 15:46	Desanctimonious Tiny d may take over the DoD. Our loss = Florida’s gain. Hard to imagine the incalculable damage he’s done to Florida. By the way, both those nicknames for Ron DeSantis were coined by tRump. tRump also said of JD Vance “"J.D. is kissing my ass. Of course, he wants my support," and Vance said of tRump … if whether he was “America’s Hitler” and in 2017 said the then-president was a “moral disaster.” In public, he agreed Trump was a “total fraud” who didn’t care about regular people and called him “reprehensible.” “I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical a**hole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler,” Vance wrote in a message to a friend in 2016. “How’s that for discouraging?”
lord_shiva 04-Dec-24, 21:23	Female Cadets My bet is Pete would have the servicewomen divided into his two classic groups: party girls and non party girls.
zorroloco 05-Dec-24, 07:37	Nothing but the best At Fox News, the network’s human resources department looked into Mr. Hegseth’s conduct at the “Fox & Friends” Christmas party in 2016 and discussed it with him, according to a person with intimate knowledge who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a personnel matter. The following December, Mr. Hegseth got so drunk at a wedding of a Fox News producer that he struggled to stand upright in a men’s bathroom, according to two people with direct knowledge of the episode who declined to be named for fear of retribution. Friends asked a producer who was there to get Mr. Hegseth a ride home so he could make it to the set by 6 a.m., they said. Mr. Hegseth also has been battered by accounts in the press about his womanizing and infidelity, as well as a 2017 incident in which he was accused of rape at a speaking event in Monterey, Calif., though no charges were ever filed. Mr. Parlatore has said that the encounter was consensual. Mr. Hegseth’s successive tenures as the head of two nonprofit veterans groups, from 2008 to 2016, ended with both in financial trouble. At the first, Vets for Freedom, revenues rose sharply under his leadership, reaching $8.7 million in 2008. But spending rose even faster. The group fell into debt, then fizzled. In 2012, four years later, it received just $81 in donations, according to financial documents filed with the Internal Revenue Service. The second, Concerned Veterans for America, also often spent more than it took in and was $37,000 in debt by 2016, when Mr. Hegseth was listed in tax filings as the outgoing chief executive officer. The New Yorker magazine reported this week that several ex-employees filed a whistle-blower complaint to the group’s leadership, claiming that Mr. Hegseth had been drunk at multiple work-related events while there.
zorroloco 05-Dec-24, 07:41	Worth repeating Hegseth’s mother called him out as “an abuser of women” in a 2018 email; she called it an “ugly truth” and urged her son to “get some help and take an honest look” at himself.
zorroloco 05-Dec-24, 09:20	Religious crusader Before Donald J. Trump picked him to lead the Department of Defense, Pete Hegseth spoke often about a medieval military campaign that he saw as a model for today: the Crusades, in which Christian warriors from Western Europe embarked on ruthless missions to wrest control of Jerusalem and other areas under Muslim rule. As he embraced a combative brand of Christianity in recent years, he wrote that people who enjoy the benefits of Western civilization should “thank a Crusader.” On his arm, he has a tattoo with the words “Deus Vult,” which he has described as a “battle cry” of the Crusades. “Voting is a weapon, but it’s not enough,” he wrote in a book, “American Crusade,” published in May 2020. “We don’t want to fight, but, like our fellow Christians one thousand years ago, we must.” Mr. Trump has so far stuck by Mr. Hegseth as his nominee for secretary of defense despite a growing series of disclosures about his past, including allegations of sexual impropriety, alcohol abuse and financial mismanagement. Mr. Hegseth has vigorously denied the allegations, calling them an attempt to disrupt Mr. Trump’s agenda.
mo-oneandmore 05-Dec-24, 13:35	MAGA Stop slamming poor Pete, Y'all.
zorroloco 06-Dec-24, 14:33	Of course he did Rape and sexual harassment and assault are gatekeepers for the tRump administration. They believe any ‘real’ man should have at least one rape allegation. If you’re not grabbing them by the pussy or raping them, you’re obviously a weakling lib lacking balls. It’s literally how they judge people. No sex assault, you can’t be on their team. President-elect tRump stood up for his pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, who has confronted damning news articles accusing him of troubling behavior, including rape, financial mismanagement and drunkenness. Mr. Trump’s social media post praising Mr. Hegseth amounted to a public dare to Republican senators to vote against his wishes.
zorroloco 07-Dec-24, 06:24	Cutting benefits? Hegseth and Collins’ push for cutting veterans health benefits alarms servicemembers and veterans groups
lord_shiva 07-Dec-24, 06:32	They Richly Deserve It Mo doesn’t deserve to have his benefits cut, nor many like minded servicemen (about a third). But the majority would be better off losing any veteran benefits. www.pewresearch.org

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