NBC News: Senators Receive Affidavit Containing New Allegations Against Pete Hegseth

"Senators have received an affidavit from the former sister-in-law of Pete Hegseth, President Trump's nominee to serve as secretary of defense, that says his behavior caused his second wife to fear for her safety. NBC News' Julie Tsirkin reports from Capitol Hill as Hegseth and his attorney deny the allegations as he awaits Senate confirmation." 

Source:NBC News & many others covering Pete Hegseth's nomination for Secretary of Defense.

From NBC News

From what my colleague Kire Schneider wrote last week about Pete Hegseth's allegations of being (let's say) an alcoholic and how Senator Markwayne Mullin produced his very own puppet show in defense of Pete Hegseth: 

"I'm not a religious man, (I guess that comes from being Agnostic) so I don't use religious expressions very often. But what Senator Mullin did today, was essentially admit that's he's a puppet of Donald Trump and acknowledge that Pete Hegseth is not just a hardcore drinker, or at the very least has been 1 in the past, but he's had real problems with women in the past. 

But then Senator Mullin takes it a step further by basically saying: 

"Who here isn't a hardcore drinker and has had issues with women in the past, cheated on their wives, etc..." He's basically saying that it's OK to be a womanizer and perhaps even women beater, and maybe even an alcoholic, because they're all done those those things. Because it's not like people become Secretary of Defense to relax or go on vacation. It's a stressful job and guys need to be guys and need to relax... 

From The New Democrat

From what my colleague Derik Schneider wrote past week about Pete Hegseth's allegations of being (let's say) an alcoholic and how Senator Markwayne Mullin produced his very own puppet show in defense of Pete Hegseth: 

"My 1st point here and this is where I sort of agree with David Pakman: Senator Markwayne Mullin doesn't have any "receipts" to bring. He's just pulling a "we all do it" play and basically saying that Pete Hegseth shouldn't be held to any higher standard than some Joe Jones on the street, who lives a life that's completely obscure, who just goes about his own business everyday. That's basically how Senator Mullin sees the Secretary of Defense, as well as U.S. Senators: they're just a bunch of Joe and Sally Jones's on the street and therefor shouldn't be treated as important people, held to higher standards. Or, that's what he wants the mainstream media to think.

Had Kamala Harris won the election and she's appointing the new Secretary of Defense and that person has a history of heavy alcohol use, how much would you want to be bet me that Senator Mullin would be acting like the Secretary of Defense is 1 of the most responsible and powerful positions in the whole world. And therefor we must hold that person to the highest standards possible. 

But Donald Trump won and according to Senator Mullin, what The Donald wants, is what The Donald gets. This Republican Congress should just be there to protect his back. Not do their jobs as members of Congress. 

My 2nd and final point here is, Senator Mullin is just playing partisan politics and serving as another 1 of Donald J. Trump's political pets. Nothing more, or less." 

From The New Democrat

I'm not going to say here that some different Republican senator is going to produce their own puppet show in defense of Pete Hegseth over the allegations that he was abusive to his ex-wife and perhaps his ex-sister-in-law as well. And some new Republican senator might say in public: 

"Can you name me a U.S. Senator who doesn't beat his wife and sister-in-law? We all do it. So why should we hold Pete Hegseth, who's only about to be the next Secretary of Defense, to a higher standard then some blue-collar Joe, who gets drunk after work and goes home and beats his wife, as well as sister-in-law, if she's available?" 

But if you saw Senator Markwayne Mullin's defense of Pete Hegseth last week, where he essentially accused multiple U.S. Senators of being active alcoholics, with no names, let alone evidence, you might have been already blown away and shocked and awed just by that. 

If you privately polled the Senate Republican Conference, or slipped some truth serum in their favorite coffee or favorite alcohol beverage, (according to Senator Mullin) or they were under oath, they would privately tell you that Pete Hegseth has no business serving as a Defense Department intern, let alone as Secretary of Defense. That he's better qualified attending Alcoholic Anonymous meetings, and attending anger management meetings, then being responsible for America's national security. But President Trump wants Hegseth, so that's who he gets, according to a sold majority of the Senate Republican Conference. That's my guess. 

So the question is are there 5-10 Republican senators who care enough about the nation's security, who have female relatives that they care about, perhaps have a wife themselves, who are at the very least willing to put the Hegseth nomination on hold until we get to the bottom of the allegations about his alleged alcoholism and physical mistreatment of his wife. I haven't seen any evidence of that yet. But this FBI affidavit might lead to something. 

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