Hegseth Faces Senate Questions Over Sexual Assault Allegations
January 15, 2025
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as posted by the channelPete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for defense secretary, is portraying his lack of high-level management experience as an asset, saying at his confirmation hearing that he’d be a “change agent” to “restore the warrior ethos” with “no vested interest in certain companies or specific programs or approved narratives.” #trump #hegseth #politics
But Senator Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in his opening remarks, “Mr. Hegseth, I do not believe that you are qualified to meet the overwhelming demands of this job.”
The former Fox News host and military veteran said that he and Trump believe “that it’s time to give someone with dust on his boots the helm” after years of picking generals, academics or defense contractor executives. Hegseth, 44, spent 14 years in the National Guard and was deployed to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Democrats on the committee pursued allegations of past alcohol abuse and sexual assault, which Hegseth has denied.
“A variety of sources – including your own writings – implicate you with disregarding laws of war, financial mismanagement, racist and sexist remarks about men and women in uniform, alcohol abuse, sexual assault, sexual harassment and other troubling issues,” Reed said. “I have reviewed many of these allegations, and find them extremely alarming.”
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