Pete Hegseth has had a rough go of it since Donald Trump nominated him to run the Pentagon last month. The Fox News host’s past has come into the full focus of the media and the Republican lawmakers who must vote to confirm him, and it doesn’t look pretty. The details of a disturbing 2017 sexual assault allegation were recently made public, for example. Rolling Stone reported that Trump’s team was furious Hegseth didn’t come clean about during the vetting process.
Over the weekend, The New York Times released a letter that Hegseth’s own mother wrote to her son, excoriating him for being an “abuser of women.” Hegseth’s sexism likely extends far beyond his mother’s purview. The New Yorker late Sunday night released a damning report featuring a whistleblower account of Hegseth’s behavior while leading the veterans group Concerned Veterans for America, as well…
