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‘One of the bros’: Critics scoff at media’s weak allegations against Pete Hegseth for hard-partying past

December 3, 2024 | | Print Article

Critics are laughing over an attempt by the media to malign Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth for sometimes allegedly getting drunk.

The latest attack emerged Monday, when Nikole Killion, a CBS reporter, confronted Hegseth with these allegations.

Watch:

“When you were at Concerned Veterans for America, were you ever drunk while traveling on the job?” Killion asked Hegseth.

“I won’t dignify that with a response,” he replied.

Killion’s question was based on a report from The New Yorker, which broke a lengthy story on Sunday documenting Hegseth’s supposedly “secret” behavior.

It came days after another left-wing news site published a detailed, he-said/she-said sexual assault allegation against Hegseth.

The alleged behavior documented by The New Yorker included Hegseth getting drunk at social events such as several Concerned Veterans for America gatherings held between 2013 and 2016, during which time he was the president of the organization.

“A previously undisclosed whistle-blower report on Hegseth’s tenure as the president of Concerned Veterans for America … describes him as being repeatedly intoxicated while acting in his official capacity—to the point of needing to be carried out of the organization’s events,” The New Yorker notes.

“The detailed seven-page report … states that, 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,” its reporting continues.

So he allegedly took his team to a strip club for fun, and in the process, he got a little too drunk. Shocking. Mind you, this allegedly happened a couple of times.

“[A]t one such C.V.A. event in Virginia Beach, on Memorial Day weekend in 2014, Hegseth was ‘totally sloshed’ and needed to be carried to his room because ‘he was so intoxicated,'” The New Yorker claims.

“The following month, during an event in Cleveland, Hegseth, who had gone with his team to a bar around the corner from their hotel, was described as ‘completely drunk in a public place,'” its reporting continues.

On another occasion, he allegedly ranted and raved about killing Muslims while drunk.

“In a separate letter of complaint, which was sent to the organization in late 2015, a different former employee described Hegseth being at a bar in the early morning hours of May 29, 2015, while on an official tour through Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, drunkenly chanting ‘Kill All Muslims! Kill All Muslims!'” the New Yorker notes.

Confronted by these allegations, Hegseth’s lawyer Tim Parlatore claimed they were all bogus.

“We’re not going to comment on outlandish claims laundered through The New Yorker by a petty and jealous disgruntled former associate of Mr. Hegseth’s,” he said. “Get back to us when you try your first attempt at actual journalism.”

Hegseth’s supporters meanwhile are convinced that, if the allegations are true, then he was just acting like a normal man.

Look:

Critics have also taken to bashing The New Yorker for laundering these allegations through a single “undisclosed whistleblower.”

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