CBS News Tried Pulling A Brett Kavanaugh On Pete Hegseth (And Failed)

Posted • December 4, 2024: It wasn't long after President-elect Donald Trump had nominated Pete Hegseth to be his Defense Secretary that the media tried pulling a Brett Kavanaugh on him, pulling up reports of an alleged sexual assault back in 2017. CBS News was all over it. A married woman chose to go up to Hegseth's hotel room while her husband and children were asleep in the same hotel. A few days later she decided that she was raped. Doesn't sound even remotely credible to me. Rolling Stone, which was sued by a fraternity it had accused of gang rape in a story that was completely fabricated, also got in on the action, and MSNBC's Jen Psaki thought it was a good idea to highlight Rolling Stone's report on her show: Earth to Psaki: Er, um Rolling Stone is not the most trustworthy source of sexual-assault stories. I am curious how the police concluded Hegseth committed the assault while at the same concluded after investigations there was no reason to charge him with assault.

That scandal didn't stick, so they decided to suggest from his tattoos that Hegseth was a white supremacist. As we reported Monday, Sen. Dick Blumenthal is now trying to paint Hegseth as a drunk. Oh, and the New York Times pulled up an email from Hegseth's mother from 2018 suggesting he mistreated women. The swamp really does not want him confirmed. (…)

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