{"id":132709,"date":"2024-12-03T04:37:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T21:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=132709"},"modified":"2024-12-03T04:37:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T21:37:57","slug":"trump-defense-pick-pete-hegseth-report-details-alcohol-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=132709","title":{"rendered":"Trump defense pick Pete Hegseth report details alcohol abuse"},"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 id=\"RegularArticle-ArticleBody-5\" data-module=\"ArticleBody\" data-test=\"articleBody-2\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-articleBody-5-2\"><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\" style=\"top:0;left:0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbed\" id=\"ArticleBody-InlineImage-108066423\" data-test=\"InlineImage\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage-wrapper\">\n<div>\n<p>President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s nominee to be Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth leaves the Russell Senate Office Building on November 21, 2024 in Washington, DC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/11\/15\/trump-defense-pete-hegseth-sex-assault-investigation-.html\">Pete Hegseth<\/a>, the already embattled choice by President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> to lead the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pentagon<\/a>, faces a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/pete-hegseths-secret-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">magazine report<\/a> detailing his alleged alcohol abuse, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/11\/21\/police-report-details-alleged-sexual-assault-by-trumps-defense-pick-pete-hegseth.html\">sexual impropriety<\/a>, and mismanagement while running two veterans&#8217; non-profit groups.<\/p>\n<p>The report published late Sunday by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/pete-hegseths-secret-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Yorker<\/a>, citing a previously undisclosed whistleblower complaint written in 2015, says that Hegseth was drunk on repeated occasions while acting as president of the Concerned Veterans of America &#8220;to the point of needing to be carried out of the organization&#8217;s events.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; The New Yorker reported, citing the whistleblower report, which the magazine said was compiled by several former C.V.A. employees and sent to the group&#8217;s senior management.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The report also says that Hegseth, who was married at the time, and other members of his management team sexually pursued the organization&#8217;s female staffers, whom they divided into two groups \u2014 the &#8216;party girls&#8217; and the &#8216;not party girls,'&#8221; The New Yorker&#8217;s Jane Mayer wrote.<\/p>\n<p>CNBC has not seen the whistleblower report, nor a separate letter of complaint detailed by the magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth was later forced to step down as president of C.V.A. in 2016 in part due to &#8220;concerns about his mismanagement and abuse of alcohol on the job,&#8221; the magazine said, citing what it called three knowledgeable sources, one of whom contributed to the whistleblower report.<\/p>\n<p>CNBC has requested comment from Hegseth&#8217;s attorney, Timothy Parlatore, who earlier declined to comment to NBC News.<\/p>\n<p>The New Yorker quoted a statement provided to the magazine by Parlatore, who said it came from a person the attorney identified as an advisor to Hegseth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not going to comment on outlandish claims laundered through The New Yorker by a petty and jealous disgruntled former associate of Mr. Hegseth&#8217;s,&#8221; that statement said. &#8220;Get back to us when you try your first attempt at actual journalism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment from CNBC on The New Yorker article.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<div class=\"RelatedContent-relatedContent\" id=\"RegularArticle-RelatedContent-1\">\n<div class=\"RelatedContent-container\">\n<div class=\"RelatedContent-nonCollapsibleContent\">\n<h2 class=\"RelatedContent-header\">Read more CNBC politics coverage<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>Hegseth, a decorated U.S. military veteran who most recently worked as a host on Fox News, was tapped by Trump in November to be the next secretary of the Defense Department.<\/p>\n<p>His planned nomination almost immediately came under fire, after revelations that police in Monterey, California, investigated Hegseth for an alleged sexual assault of a woman in October 2017 at a hotel where a Republican women&#8217;s convention was being held.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth, who told police he had consensual sex with the woman, was not criminally charged after that probe.<\/p>\n<p>He told reporters on Capitol Hill on Nov. 21: &#8220;As far as the media is concerned, I&#8217;ll keep this very simple. The matter was fully investigated and I was completely cleared, and that&#8217;s where I&#8217;m going to leave it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the 2017 incident, Hegseth was in the midst of a divorce from his second wife. Two months before the alleged assault, his current wife, with whom he was engaged in an extramarital relationship, had given birth to her and Hegseth&#8217;s baby.<\/p>\n<p>The Monterey County district attorney in a statement in late November said her office declined to file criminal charges against Hegseth in Jan. 2018 because &#8220;no charges were supported by proof beyond a reasonable doubt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Several years later, Hegseth paid the woman an undisclosed sum of money &#8220;as part of a civil confidential settlement and maintains his innocence,&#8221; Parlatore said in mid-November.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth&#8217;s attorney told NBC News at the time that Hegseth &#8220;ultimately decided to enter into a settlement for a significantly reduced amount&#8221; at the &#8220;height of the MeToo movement.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The police report on the sexual assault probe, which was made public in November, says investigators spoke with a hotel worker who saw Hegseth and the accuser at a pool after two separate guests complained of a loud disturbance.<\/p>\n<p>The worker &#8220;stated Hegseth was very intoxicated,&#8221; and that the woman he was with &#8220;was not intoxicated &#8230; and was very coherent,&#8221; the police report said.<\/p>\n<p>However, the woman later told police that she was unable to recall much of what happened when she went with Hegseth to his room.<\/p>\n<p>She &#8220;believes something might have been slipped into her drink, as she cannot remember most of the night&#8217;s events,&#8221; police wrote in their report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\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.cnbc.com\/2024\/12\/02\/trump-defense-pentagon-pete-hegseth-drinking-sex-finances-.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s nominee to be Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth leaves the Russell Senate Office Building on November 21, 2024 in Washington, DC.\u00a0 Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images Pete &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=132709\" 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-132709","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\/132709","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=132709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}