{"id":131912,"date":"2024-11-30T22:45:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T15:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=131912"},"modified":"2024-11-30T22:45:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T15:45:55","slug":"trump-defense-secretary-nominee-pete-hegseths-mother-called-him-an-abuser-of-women-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=131912","title":{"rendered":"Trump defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth\u2019s mother called him \u2018an abuser of women\u2019 | Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The family dynamics of Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump\u2019s nominee for secretary of defense, have burst out into the open after an email from his mother criticizing her son over his treatment of women and calling him an \u201cabuser of women\u201d was leaked to a newspaper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">A 2018 email from Penelope Hegseth accused her son of routinely mistreating women and displaying a lack of character.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cYou are an abuser of women \u2013 that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/29\/us\/politics\/hegseth-email-text.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Penelope Hegseth wrote<\/a> in the email obtained by the New York Times.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"9dcdc30f-08e3-4786-bf36-1c2bcbcd23d0\" data-spacefinder-role=\"richLink\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-1your1i\"><gu-island name=\"RichLinkComponent\" priority=\"feature\" deferuntil=\"idle\" props=\"{&quot;richLinkIndex&quot;:3,&quot;element&quot;:{&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement&quot;,&quot;prefix&quot;:&quot;Related: &quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Trump cabinet criticized as hodgepodge team unified only by \u2018absolute fealty\u2019 to him&quot;,&quot;elementId&quot;:&quot;9dcdc30f-08e3-4786-bf36-1c2bcbcd23d0&quot;,&quot;role&quot;:&quot;richLink&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/nov\/30\/trump-administration-cabinet&quot;},&quot;ajaxUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/api.nextgen.guardianapps.co.uk&quot;,&quot;format&quot;:{&quot;design&quot;:0,&quot;display&quot;:0,&quot;theme&quot;:0}}\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cYou 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,\u201d she added, advising her son to \u201cget some help and take an honest look at yourself\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/29\/us\/politics\/pete-hegseth-mother-email.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Penelope Hegseth told the New York Times<\/a> she had written the message \u201cin anger, with emotion\u201d while her son was going through an acrimonious divorce from his second wife, Samantha, the mother of three of his children, and had immediately apologized to her son in a second email.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">She rejected her earlier characterization of her son to the outlet. \u201cIt is not true. It has never been true,\u201d she said. She added: \u201cI know my son. He is a good father, husband.\u201d She said that publishing the contents of the first email was \u201cdisgusting\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The release of the letter comes ahead of Hegseth\u2019s confirmation hearings in the Senate after Trump takes office on 20 January, in which the veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars will come under scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Hegseth, a former Fox &amp; Friends host, is already facing questions over payments he reportedly made to a woman who accused him of sexual assault \u2013 an encounter that he insists was consensual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Hegseth\u2019s attorney has said his client was \u201cvisibly intoxicated\u201d at the time of the incident in a Monterey, California, hotel in 2017 and police who had looked into the woman\u2019s claim had concluded that \u201cthe complainant had been the aggressor in the encounter\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">In a statement, Hegseth\u2019s lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said his client had agreed to pay an undisclosed amount to the woman because he feared that revelation of the matter \u201cwould result in his immediate termination from Fox\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung told the Times that the outlet was \u201cdespicable\u201d for publishing \u201can out-of-context snippet\u201d of Penelope Hegseth\u2019s exchange with her son.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/nov\/30\/trump-defense-secretary-pick-pete-hegseth-mother-abuser-of-women\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family dynamics of Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump\u2019s nominee for secretary of defense, have burst out into the open after an email from his mother criticizing her son over his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=131912\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}