{"id":64138,"date":"2024-12-03T13:06:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T21:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64138"},"modified":"2024-12-03T15:18:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T23:18:07","slug":"fox-news-buries-reports-of-trumps-unsavory-unqualified-defense-secretary-pick-pete-hegseth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64138","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Buries Reports of Trump&#8217;s Unsavory, Unqualified Defense Secretary Pick, Pete Hegseth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that can be said about Donald Trump is that he has a deep affinity for people who share his noxious personality and absence of ethical values. He consistently surrounds himself with other wealthy narcissists who are devoted to serving their own interests and greed at the expense of everyone else.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Fox News Buries Reports of Trump's Unsavory, Unqualified Defense Secretary Pick, Pete Hegseth%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64138\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-hegseth-cleared.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News, Pete Hegseth, Cleared\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63965\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For an example of this Trumpiness in his toadies, one needs to look no further than his current nominee for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth. The abhorrent nature of Trump is readily apparent in Hegseth&#8217;s conceited certainty that he has the experience and skills to run the Pentagon. What he does have is unwavering fealty to Trump and a Fox News resume.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63709\" target=\"_blank\">Trump is Stacking His Cabinet with Fox News Trump-Fluffers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hegseth&#8217;s history as the weekend host of Fox and Friends has not only won him the attention of Trump, it has resulted in the stories of his decadent past behavior being blacked out on Fox <em>&#8220;News.&#8221;<\/em> CNN&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/12\/03\/media\/fox-news-ignores-pete-hegseth-controversies\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Stelter reviewed Fox&#8217;s programming<\/a><\/strong> and discovered that they have utterly ignored some bombshell revelations about Hegseth&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What&#8217;s a media outlet supposed to do when its longtime host is picked to run the Pentagon, and then a series of eyebrow-raising news stories trigger doubts about his appointment? If you&#8217;re Fox News, evidently, you just pretend the stories don&#8217;t exist. [&#8230;] On Fox, Hegseth\u2019s former colleagues aren\u2019t raising alarms about the allegations or defending him \u2013 they\u2019re just not talking about the issue at all.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is typical of Fox News, a network whose mission from its inception has been to advance right-wing politicians and policies. Among the revelations that have recently been reported about Hegseth by actual journalists are&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/29\/us\/politics\/pete-hegseth-mother-email.html\" target=\"_blank\">Emails by Hegseth&#8217;s mother<\/a> who wrote to him <em>&#8220;On behalf of all the women (and I know it\u2019s many) you have abused in some way, I say \u2026 get some help and take an honest look at yourself. I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>And that &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/nov\/21\/pete-hegseth-sexual-assault-allegations\" target=\"_blank\">A woman told police that she was sexually assaulted<\/a> in 2017 by Pete Hegseth after he took her phone, blocked the door to a California hotel room and refused to let her leave, according to a detailed investigative report&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>And a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/pete-hegseths-secret-history\" target=\"_blank\">whistle-blower report that Hegseth<\/a> <em>&#8220;was forced out of previous leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, and being repeatedly intoxicated on the job.\u201d<\/em> The report detailed multiple accounts of Hegseth being so drunk he had to be carried back to his hotel room. It also revealed incidents like the one where he <em>&#8220;had to be restrained while drunk from joining the dancers on the stage of a Louisiana strip club, where he had brought his team.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jane Mayer, the author of the New Yorker story about the whistleblower, was interviewed on CNN Monday, where she outlined much of the atrocious behavior by Hegseth. In addition to his alcohol-fueled debauchery, she calls into question whether someone who could not manage a small charity (actually two of them) with a handful of staffers would be able to run the Pentagon with a budget of $850 billion and more than three million people.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The New Yorker&#39;s Jane Mayer discusses her new reporting on President-elect Trump\u2019s pick to lead the Department of Defense, Pete Hegseth.  She has uncovered allegations Hegseth was forced out as the head of two veterans\u2019 advocacy groups over personal misconduct. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7pKqgzbXQC\">pic.twitter.com\/7pKqgzbXQC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Anderson Cooper 360\u00b0 (@AC360) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AC360\/status\/1863761930357264576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>What this tells is that Hegseth is absolutely unqualified to be Secretary of Defense, or to be considered for any position in government. But it also tells us that he should not have been employed by Fox News either, and that they should not consider rehiring him if his nomination is rejected by the Senate, as it must be.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth is incompetent and is an unrepentant abuser of women and liquor who, like Trump, is on his third marriage, after his cheating and lying and abuse resulted in the first two failing. Although it is just that sort of deplorable behavior that explains why Trump likes him so much. They are two of a kind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/msnbc.com\/post\/3lcgqm6cxlk2o\" target=\"_blank\">NBC News is now reporting<\/a><\/strong> that <em>&#8220;as many as 6 Senate Republicans are currently not comfortable supporting [Hegseth&#8217;s] bid.&#8221;<\/em> If only half that many say <em>&#8220;NO&#8221;<\/em> Hegseth cannot be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64127\" target=\"_blank\">Trump and the GOP Affirm Their Reputations as Moronic Hypocrites After Hunter Biden\u2019s Pardon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64117\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s Free Press? His FBI Flunky Kash Patel Threatens to \u2018Come After the People in the Media\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64103\" target=\"_blank\">YIKES! 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