The Mike Hosking Breakfast Richard Arnold: US Correspondent on the Pete Hegseth allegations
There’s more trouble with Donald Trump’s cabinet picks.
Allegations have come out about Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nomination for Secretary of Defense.
Reports reveal that he was twice ousted from military organisations he led for financial mismanagement and improper behaviour, as well as allegations of sexual assault from 2017.
US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking that in an email following Hegseth’s divorce in 2016, his mother wrote that she has no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego – saying that he was that man.
Arnold says that she says she retracted her remarks a day later in a separate email, having written it “in anger”.
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