Pete Hegseths geheime Geschichte – Ein Whistleblower-Bericht und andere Dokumente deuten darauf hin, dass Trumps Kandidat für die Führung des Pentagon wegen finanzieller Misswirtschaft, sexistischem Verhalten und wiederholter Trunkenheit bei der Arbeit aus früheren Führungspositionen gedrängt wurde

That’s all “alpha male” shit conservatives love

Elections have consequences

The Trump Standard. This is what America voted for.

Ooh shocker, someone connected to Trump has a history of sh*tty behavior. Call me when something interesting happens. You know, something that isn’t the same old news like it’s 2016 all over again. I’m yawning at this point. “Oh look, Trump nominated another unqualified, incompetent, and corrupt loyalist to fill positions they have no business leading.” How original.

At this point, I am convinced that Trump wants him deliberately so that DoD can be left helpless in wake of a Russian attack or something. Also just how the denials rely pretty much on attacking the source as “not journalism” once again.

>But Hegseth’s record before becoming a full-time Fox News TV host, in 2017, raises additional questions about his suitability to run the world’s largest and most lethal military force. A trail of documents, corroborated by the accounts of former colleagues, indicates that Hegseth was forced to step down by both of the two nonprofit advocacy groups that he ran—Veterans for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America—in the face of serious allegations of financial mismanagement, sexual impropriety, and personal misconduct.

>A previously undisclosed whistle-blower report on Hegseth’s tenure as the president of Concerned Veterans for America, from 2013 until 2016, describes him as being repeatedly intoxicated while acting in his official capacity—to the point of needing to be carried out of the organization’s events. The detailed seven-page report—which was compiled by multiple former C.V.A. employees and sent to the organization’s senior management in February, 2015—states that, at one point, Hegseth had to be restrained while drunk from joining the dancers on the stage of a Louisiana strip club, where he had brought his team. The report also says that Hegseth, who was married at the time, and other members of his management team sexually pursued the organization’s female staffers, whom they divided into two groups—the “party girls” and the “not party girls.” In addition, the report asserts that, under Hegseth’s leadership, the organization became a hostile workplace that ignored serious accusations of impropriety, including an allegation made by a female employee that another employee on Hegseth’s staff had attempted to sexually assault her at the Louisiana strip club. In a separate letter of complaint, which was sent to the organization in late 2015, a different former employee described Hegseth being at a bar in the early-morning hours of May 29, 2015, while on an official tour through Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, drunkenly chanting “Kill All Muslims! Kill All Muslims!”

>In response to questions from this magazine, Tim Parlatore, a lawyer for Hegseth, replied with the following statement, which he said came from “an advisor” to Hegseth: “We’re not going to comment on outlandish claims laundered through *The New Yorker* by a petty and jealous disgruntled former associate of Mr. Hegseth’s. Get back to us when you try your first attempt at actual journalism.”

Edit, and more:

>The whistle-blower report makes extensive allegations. It describes several top managers being involved in drunken episodes, including an altercation at a casino and a hotel Christmas party at which food was thrown from the balcony. Hegseth, it says, was “seen drunk at multiple CVA events” between 2013 and 2015, a time when the organization was engaged in an ambitious nationwide effort to mobilize veterans to vote for conservative candidates and causes. The project gave Hegseth and his team the opportunity to travel far from the organization’s headquarters, in northern Virginia. Hegseth and his team gave speeches, assisted conservative campaigns, and collected voter data valuable for the Kochs’ political operation. As a decorated veteran who by 2014 had become an on-air contributor to Fox News, Hegseth was the public face of the group’s mission, conducting a whistle-stop tour with his team from city to city, packaged by C.V.A. as the Defend Freedom Tour.

Doesn’t take very long observing his speech/behavior to realize this wasn’t a good pick.

That’s just locker room stuff

Sounds like the perfect guy for Trumps new-old stock America.

Oh, that’s not all.

Hegseth previously led a partisan organization called “Concerned Veteran for America,” which has strong ties to the Koch Network. The group primarily advocates for conservatives policies and supports things like privatizing the VA.

Hegseth has been a Fox News contributor since 2014.

Pete has been pretty vocal in the past about his opposition to women serving in combat roles. There are also a lot of concerns among women in uniform right now related to fears that Hegseth will hinder efforts to prevent sexual assault and harassment in the military.

Despite Republicans complaining about “the left’s violent rhetoric,” Hegseth has received backlash for labeling all left-leaning Americans as “domestic enemies.”

Hegseth has been accused of being an extremist. A fellow service member once called him an “insider threat” after seeing a tattoo of his that’s associated with white supremacist groups.

> The Army considers an insider threat someone who “is a malicious threat to an organization that comes from a person or people within the organization.”

Hegseth has of course blamed these criticisms on “wokeness,” and even wrote a book about it titled, “The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free.”

> “The War on Warriors uncovers the deep roots of our dysfunction – a society that has forgotten the men who take risks, cut through red tape, and get their hands dirty. The only kind of men prepared to face the dangers that the Left pretends don’t exist,”

Hegseth has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in California after a speaking engagement. It’s been reported that he barred the door to her hotel room and took away her cell phone.

> Although Hegseth denied the allegations and was never charged, he did pay a settlement to the accuser.

Questions were raised when his account of the events changed while under investigation.

The settlement also included a confidentiality agreement.

Remember the tasteless smear campaign against Tim Walz and his time in the National Guard? Well, not a peep from conservatives this time despite Hegseth being pulled from his National Guard duties due to concerns from members of his unit. Oh, and the concerns were raised when Hegseth was assigned responsibilities for Joe Biden’s inauguration.

Then there’s his outspoken and controversial support for the Blackwater contractors who killed 14 unarmed Iraqi Civilians during the 2007 Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad.

> Hegseth lobbied President Donald Trump to pardon these contractors, which Trump ultimately did at the end of his first term.

Shockingly, Hegseth has also downplayed January 6th, particularly the violent role that any veterans played during the attack.

More rampant cronyism, corruption and extremism from the next Trump administration… And it’s not even a month after the election.

Breaking news: Man tapped to head Pentagon because he’s dumb extremist bigot bad at job is…dumb extremist bigot bad at job. More at 8.

This isn’t a secret history, it’s an obvious fucking present. There is no whistle to blow here because Hegseth has already revealed everything with his own bullhorn. And at this point, I’d almost rather it be him than some other Nazi fuck. Hegseth will be hampered by his own incompetence in a way that an actually qualified general would not be.

I just read the article, seems Hegseth’s lawyer is a scumbag too (accusing Jane Doe of filing false SA reports on others that the city of Monterey said is a spurious lie)

He just gets better and better

I did Nazi that coming

Working for Trump these sound like high skill matches

Just as a side note, if you wonder what sort of person Fox News hires. This is it folks.

Seems like he checks all the boxes for them.