The police report of a 2017 sexual assault allegation in Monterey, California, against former Fox News personality Pete Hegseth released on Wednesday night. Obtained by Mediaite, the report details graphic allegations against President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for defense secretary. According to the report, the accuser, a woman identified as Jane …
Read More »Pete Hegseth Says 'Battle Is Just Beginning' After Sexual-Assault Claim Surfaces
During a prayer call hosted Tuesday by the Republican National Committee and co-chair Lara Trump, Pete Hegseth declared that “the battle is just beginning,” amid revelations of a 2017 sexual assault allegation. Following president-elect Donald Trump‘s announcement that he had chosenthe Fox Newshostto serve as his secretary of defense, public …
Read More »'SNL' Weekend Update Shreds Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth
Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update tackled some of Donald Trump’s most troubling cabinet picks. On Wednesday, Trump said he would nominateMatt Gaetz for attorney general. When the then-congressman was first asked about the role, co-anchor Colin Jost joked, he “said the same thing hedoes when he sees a teenagegirl: ‘I’ll …
Read More »Trump's Extreme Hires Are About Showing Republicans Who's Boss
Donald Trump has nominated a roster of highly controversial, and in some cases scandal-plagued, MAGA chaos agents to serve in his Cabinet — and is planning to force them through the U.S. Senate, a chamber in which the incoming president will enjoy a new conservative majority. However, when it comes …
Read More »Trump's Pentagon Pick Was Investigated Over Alleged Sexual Assault
Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks aren’t exactly strangers to controversy, but the alleged past of Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth is already forcing the president elect’s transition team to do damage control. According to public records in 2017 Hegseth, a former Army service member and current Fox News host, was investigated …
Read More »Will Trump Be Able to Install His Extreme Cabinet Without Senate Confirmation?
Donald Trump has followed up his election win earlier this month by tapping a series of devout loyalists, conspiracy theorists, and zealots to occupy the highest ranks of the federal government. Some of them —like Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — are so thinly qualified for …
Read More »Trump Taps Fox News Pundit to Be Secretary of Defense
Donald Trump announced that he has picked Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as his secretary of defense. The Fox & Friends television personality is an Army veteran and joined the company as a contributor in 2014. After filling in as a co-host in 2016, Hegseth was officially named …
Read More »GOP Senators Bristle at Trump's Pentagon Pick: 'Makes No Sense'
Donald Trump’s second-term Cabinet was always going to be weird. But his selection of Fox & Friends host Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense sent shockwaves through Washington, D.C. — even among Republicans and Hegseth’s cable-TV colleagues. Shortly after the news broke on Tuesday night, two Republican senators messaged Rolling …
Read More »Fox News Calls Biden Speech 'Evil,' Declares America the 'Least Racist Country in the World'
Fox News was not happy with President Joe Biden‘s commencement address to Howard University, which one Fox host called “pandering” and led another to declare America the “least racist country in the world.” “Racism has long torn us apart,” Biden told the crowd during his speech to the historically Black …
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