Donald Trump’s nomination for defense secretary, former Fox News host Pete Hegseth once yelled at a bar ‘kill all Muslims‘ in a drunken state. Two non-profit advocacy groups — Veterans for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America — both led by Hegseth have the recording apart from other evidence of financial mismanagement and inappropriate sexual advances. New Yorker reported that Hegseth had to step down from both organizations. Reacting to the fresh claims, Hegseth’s lawyers said these outlandish claims must have come from a “petty and jealous disgruntled former associate”.
Hegseth has already been accused of a sexual assault incident that took place in 2017 but Hegseth said the incident was consensual. But since he was blackmailed during the Me Too movement, he had to pay the woman.
New Yorker cited a previously undisclosed whistleblower report on Hegseth’s tenure as the president of Concerned Veterans for America that said Hegseth was found intoxicated while acting in his official capacity and sometimes he needed to be carried out of the organization’s events.
At one such event, Hegseth had to be restrained from joining the dancers on the stage of a Louisiana strip club. Hegseth and some other members of his management team divided the female staff into two groups: the “party girls” and the “not party girls”.
In 2015, at a bar, Hegseth drunkenly chanted ‘kill all Muslims” during the early hours.
In January 2016, Hegseth resigned from Concerned Veterans for America under pressure. He had no other jobs at that time. On his silent departure, he said, “Sometimes it just makes sense to make a transition.” But the New Yorker cited sources who claimed he was made to resign because of his mismanagement and alcohol abuse.
“I’ve seen him drunk so many times. I’ve seen him dragged away not a few times but multiple times. To have him at the Pentagon would be scary,” one person who claimed to have contributed to the whistleblower report told New Yorker.
