Except apparently he didn’t actually have to answer their questions.
Long article about how Hegseth sucks. Some highlights:
But Hegseth’s record before becoming a full-time Fox News TV host, in 2017, raises additional questions about his suitability to run the world’s largest and most lethal military force. A trail of documents, corroborated by the accounts of former colleagues, indicates that Hegseth was forced to step down by both of the two nonprofit advocacy groups that he ran—Veterans for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America—in the face of serious allegations of financial mismanagement, sexual impropriety, and personal misconduct.
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. The report also says that Hegseth, who was married at the time, and other members of his management team sexually pursued the organization’s female staffers, whom they divided into two groups—the “party girls” and the “not party girls.” In addition, the report asserts that, under Hegseth’s leadership, the organization became a hostile workplace that ignored serious accusations of impropriety, including an allegation made by a female employee that another employee on Hegseth’s staff had attempted to sexually assault her at the Louisiana strip club. 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!”
In addition to systematically having a problem with alcohol, he ran multiple organizations into the ground.
Meanwhile, the finances of V.F.F. grew so dire that the group’s donors hatched a plan to take control away from Hegseth. The donors’ representatives hired a forensic accountant to review the books. The findings were appalling. In January, 2009, Hegseth sent a letter to the donors admitting that, as of that day, the group had less than a thousand dollars in the bank and $434,833 in unpaid bills. The group also had run up credit-card debts of as much as seventy-five thousand dollars. Hegseth said that he took full responsibility for the mess, but added that, unless the donors gave him more funds, V.F.F. would have to file for bankruptcy and close down.
One of the group’s backers initially agreed to Hegseth’s request. But, according to the early sympathizer, the donors decided, “Let’s shut this thing down. Pete can get another job.” The donors, who were strong supporters of America’s military role in Iraq and Afghanistan, arranged for another veterans’ group, Military Families United, which represented the families of Gold Star warriors, to merge with V.F.F. and take over most of its management. “We tried to castrate him,” Hegseth’s former associate admitted. “It was a handoff.” Annual federal tax filings for V.F.F. show the group’s coffers draining and Hegseth’s compensation dwindling. In 2010, the records show, Hegseth was identified as the group’s “Executive Director/President” and was paid forty-five thousand dollars for thirty hours of work a week. The next year, he was identified as the group’s “officer,” and paid a salary of five thousand dollars for thirty minutes of work a week. In 2012, the tax filing again identified him as the group’s “officer,” and his compensation rose to eight thousand dollars, but the total grants received by the group that year totalled a mere eighty-one dollars.
Full article at: Pete Hegseth’s Secret History | The New Yorker
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I only needed to know that his mother called him out on his treatment of women.
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Tracks with MAGA values.
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Very smart guy. Withdrew before any stuff gets exposed.
Oh dear…DeSantis for Hegseth.
DeSantis will use the military to protect us from woke.
I don’t care for DeSantis, but he’s a much better choice than Hegseth. Hegseth has no business being in a major government position.
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Even if Hegseth weren’t an alcoholic who abuses women, he wouldn’t be fit for the job. Was there any level of vetting at all?
From NYT:
“Mr. Trump has made clear to people close to him that he believes Mr. Hegseth should have been more forthcoming about the problems he would face getting confirmed, according to two people with knowledge of his thinking.”
Pathological liar thinks those working for him should be more honest.
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The reason why you professionally vet people is because you don’t expect them to tell you the bad stuff.
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I don’t know what the country will look like in 4 years, but the scandals and leaks from this administration will be historic.
I’m waiting for somebody like a Steve Bannon or a Rudy Giuliani to crack and start telling all the secrets.
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Other possible contenders for the Pentagon top job include Sens. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa,
They better vet that one. What happens when MAGA discovers:
Well, sure, but you want to take Hegseth at his word because he is a patriot and a family man.
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It’s almost as if this President is not qualified for the job.
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I keep on toying with the idea of making a comparison of Trump’s appointees last time vs this time because it is stunning how much more qualified they were last time around. An idiot President who is surrounded by competent people is vastly less damaging than an idiot President surrounded by incompetent morons.
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And with respect to the public health appointees, I am using moron as a technical term.
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He’s trying to break his own record of incompetence. Those competent appointees were holding him back.
Let’s hope they are incompetent enough not to accomplish their goals.
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