A few days ago, I suggested that Democrats and the media are trying to ‘Kavanaugh’ Pete Hegseth, Trump’s choice for Secretary of Defense. NBC News has just confirmed my thesis by publishing a smear piece about Hegseth’s supposed problem with drinking.
The entire NBC News article is based on comments from unnamed former and current employees at FOX News. It’s the same, old, tired playbook.
Three writers at NBC News are credited with this piece. Chloe Melas, Courtney Kube and Sarah Fitzpatrick.
Pete Hegseth’s drinking worried colleagues at Fox News, sources tell NBC NewsPete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, drank in ways that concerned his colleagues at Fox News, according to 10 current and former Fox employees who spoke with NBC News.Two of those people said that on more than a dozen occasions during Hegseth’s time as a co-host of “Fox & Friends Weekend,” which began in 2017, they smelled alcohol on him before he went on air. Those same two people, plus another, said that during his time there he appeared on television after they’d heard him talk about being hungover as he was getting ready or on set.One of the sources said they smelled alcohol on him as recently as last month and heard him complain about being hungover this fall.None of the sources with whom NBC News has spoken could recall an instance when Hegseth missed a scheduled appearance because he’d been drinking.”Everyone would be talking about it behind the scenes before he went on the air,” one of the former Fox employees said.On Sunday night, The New Yorker detailed concerns about Hegseth’s drinking at two jobs he held at nonprofit veterans’ groups before he joined Fox. “A previously undisclosed whistle-blower report on Hegseth’s tenure as the president of Concerned Veterans for America, from 2013 until 2016, 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 magazine reported.
I would suggest to you that no one at NBC News even cares about this. They’re just trying to turn public opinion against Hegseth because Trump wants him for this job and because Hegseth has vowed to get wokeness out of the U.S. Military.
Multiple FOX News personalities have gone on the record on Twitter/X, disputing and downright rejecting the claims made in the article.
I truly hope that Trump ignores these liberal media hit pieces and moves forward with Hegseth as the nominee. The people who are doing this are absolute slime and should be denied access to the incoming Trump administration.
Enough.
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