Trump Nominates Pete Hegseth for Defense Secretary

So Hegseth divorced his first wife and married his second wife and they had 3 children. While still married to his second wife Hegseth got a producer pregnant at fox. at the time she was also married with 3 children. He left his second wife with children and married the producer. In the middle of all this is this rape case.

 

Well, not quite. Words mean things, and I would say there is no “case” here. Law enforcement investigated and declined to bring charges. The spectrum of possible events goes anywhere from Hegseth lured this woman to his room and forced himself on her to it was a alcohol-spawned hookup with bad judgment by both parties that was immediately regretted by the accuser the next morning (since her partner was staying in the same hotel, and she needed an explanation for where she slept). I can’t pretend to know what actually happened, but as I said in another thread even in Hegseth’s best scenario he still showed exceptionally bad judgment. There are some questionable elements of the accuser’s story in my opinion. In her version of events she had to have been drugged at some point (explaining why she did not scream or fight back, etc), but she did not report the matter for as many as five days later (at the insistence of her partner), so no way to tell. Could Hegseth have drugged her? Of course. But that is not something one does once on a whim and then never again. If true, I expect we will see other accusers come forward. My guess is, he will end up pulling his own name over this to avoid further scrutiny. Probably no legal danger here, but it just looks bad. And fairly or not, the military already has a poor reputation for how it handles accusations of sexual assault and its record of holding perpetrators accountable.