Jennifer Hegseth was a Fox News producer when she had Pete Hegseth's baby. He was still married to his second wife. Two months later, a woman said he sexually assaulted her in a Monterey hotel room. He said it was consensual and later paid her $50,000 under a confidentiality agreement.
In the video below, Senator Tim Kaine walks him through it at his confirmation hearing. "You were still married to your second wife, correct?" "I believe so." Every answer after that is the same: "I was falsely charged, fully investigated and completely cleared."
He was confirmed 51 to 50. JD Vance broke the tie. Jennifer became his third wife in 2019, and she sat in on his closed-door meetings with senators and on interviews for his top hires.
On November 4, Politico reported she had been paid as a consultant by Watchtower Strategy, a Trump-aligned PR firm. One of its clients is Lockheed Martin, which got more than $66 billion from the government that year. The Pentagon called it "ridiculous slander."
Six days later, Republican Thomas Massie forced a vote to impeach her husband over illegal military operations. It failed 211 to 204. Eleven Democrats did not show up.
His wife was paid by a firm that works for the biggest contractor in his department. Conflict of interest, or is she allowed to have a job?
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Dear @hakeemjeffries
How can you smile and brag that you already have the votes for next week's election naming a Speaker of the House BUT not know that 11 Democrats were not going to show up and vote to impeach @SecWar Hegseth?
That's incompetence.
That's NOT doing your job.