Thursday, December 5, 2024

Will Trump party boy Pete Hegseth survive the nomination process?

 
Headline:  Washington Post, 12/4/2024

From Heather Cox Richardson's 12/2/2024 Letter from an American
A whistleblower for Concerned Veterans for America reported that Hegseth was repeatedly so drunk at events that he had to be carried out, and that he once tried to join dancers on stage at a strip club to which he brought his work team. Their report said that Hegseth and other members of his team divided the female staffers in the organization into “party girls” and “not party girls” and sexually pursued them, leading to allegations of sexual assault. Another complaint said that at a bar in the early hours of May 29, 2015, Hegseth began to chant drunkenly: “Kill All Muslims! Kill All Muslims!” 
An email from one of the whistleblowers to Hegseth’s successor at Concerned Veterans for America said that “[a]mong the staff, the disgust for Pete was pretty high.” The letter detailed Hegseth’s “history of alcohol abuse” and said he had “treated the organization funds like they were a personal expense account—for partying, drinking, and using CVA events as little more than opportunities to ‘hook up’ with women on the road.”
According to Merriam-Webster, the first-known use of 'whistleblower', as in , occurred in 1906.  

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  4. control rod
  5. far right
  6. gag order


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