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NBC News reports: Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, drank in ways that concerned his colleagues at Fox News, according to 10 current and former Fox employees who spoke with NBC News. Two of those people said that on more than a dozen occasions during Hegseth’s time as a co-host of “Fox & Friends Weekend,” which began …

Newsweek reports: South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham said Tuesday that it will be “difficult” for Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, to defend himself against an allegation of sexual assault. Graham called the allegation “disturbing,” telling CBS News, “I think some of these articles are very disturbing. He obviously has a chance to defend himself here, …

“What I found strange and continue to find strange about the attacks on Trump’s defense secretary proposed nominee Pete Hegseth — also, his main qualification: a morning weekend host on Fox News — is there is all this you know, ‘Did he assault this woman in the hotel or didn’t he? Was it consensual and she didn’t want her husband …

Media Matters has the transcript: GREG KELLY (HOST): Alright, Pete Hegseth. Pete. Life is long, and Pete Hegseth is a talented guy with a lot to offer. But this secretary of defense thing is not going to happen. It just can’t, not after what we’re learning about. And yeah, I understand that, oh, you know, we — this is a …

Salon reports: Hegseth — now on his third marriage — has claimed that he rediscovered Christ, saying “faith became real” to him in 2018. He became deeply involved with the Association of Classical Christian Schools (ACCS), moving to Tennessee to enroll his children in a branch of this fundamentalist organization. He also joined the associated denomination, the Communion of Reformed …

The Daily Beast reports: At Vets for Freedom, where he held the top post from 2007 to 2012, Hegseth ran up mountain-sized debt and was subject to rumors of spending on parties, or what one former associate of the group told The New Yorker “could politely be called trysts.” A group of donors to the group hired an accountant to …

The New Yorker reports: 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 …

The Meidas Touch reports: In an undated Fox News clip discovered by MeidasTouch, Trump’s Department of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth was openly hostile toward the United Nations. Hegseth called for scrapping the UN, labeling it a body that no longer serves U.S. interests: “Instead, we are funding the UN. We’re funding the WHO way more than China is, and what …

The New York Times reports: The mother of Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, wrote him an email in 2018 saying he had routinely mistreated women for years and displayed a lack of character. “On behalf of all the women (and I know it’s many) you have abused in some way, I say … get …

Nashville’s NPR affiliate reports: Goodlettsville police say they responded this morning to a bomb threat at the home of Pete Hegseth, president-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense. The heavy police presence led to the closure of portions of Patton Branch and Madison Creek roads in the Sumner County portion of Goodlettsville Wednesday. This is one of a number …

The Meidas Touch reports: Pete Hegseth, a nominee for Secretary of Defense under Donald Trump, has voiced enthusiastic support for a convention of states, a controversial proposal that has long been championed by far-right groups. Speaking during a promotional interview with his wife in June, Hegseth revealed not only his alignment with the cause but his active participation in its …

The Guardian reports: Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, has attacked several key US alliances such as NATO, allied countries such as Turkey and international institutions such as the United Nations in two recent books, as well as saying US troops should not be bound by the Geneva conventions. At the same time, the man who would head …

“With all due respect to my former colleague, we know that there were three cases of adultery for Pete Hegseth, and it is relevant. “And the reason why it’s relevant is, Article 134 of the UCMJ considers adultery against the military, which the Department of Defense is part of. You can’t lead an entire organization and all these people if …

“First of all, the police report, if you look at it, it’s very clear that what Pete was saying, what his attorney was saying was accurate. There was no case here. He was falsely accused! If you go back and you read the report, there was two eyewitnesses said that she was being the aggressor — Pete wasn’t even flirting …

The Guardian reports: Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, has written in a book that he could imagine a scenario in which the US armed forces would be used violently in American domestic politics. In one of his five published books he wrote that in the event of a Democratic election victory in the US there would be …

The New York Times reports: The woman claimed she was introduced to Mr. Hegseth at the end of the conference. She told the police that she had observed him acting inappropriately, including rubbing women’s legs. In a text message, she told someone whose name was redacted that Mr. Hegseth “was giving off a ‘creeper’ vibe,” the report said. She said …

From the Wall Street Journal editorial board: So far President-elect Trump is standing by his choice of Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary, despite the disclosure that Mr. Hegseth paid a woman in 2020 to settle an allegation of sexual assault in 2017. Press reports say the accusation took Mr. Trump’s transition team by “surprise,” which might be a lesson about …

Vanity Fair reports: For now, Donald Trump is reportedly standing by Pete Hegseth, his embattled pick for defense secretary, but some Trump transition officials are beginning to doubt whether the Fox News host can survive the controversy. According to two Republicans close to Trump, the transition team is quietly preparing a list of alternative defense secretary candidates should Trump abandon …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: When Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as Secretary of Defense, concerns were raised immediately about Hegseth’s undisguised Christian nationalism. Hegseth, who has admitted that his multiple crusader tattoos got him “deemed an extremist” by his own National Guard unit, has deep ties to misogynistic …

“This is an incredible, incredible man with the right values, a flawed man who has made mistakes in his life, but a good man who wants to live up to his values and dearly loves the United States of America. “This tattoo issue is nothing short of defamatory, and I’m waiting for the army of lawyers to start attacking the …