President-elect Donald Trump’s Defense Secretary pick, Pete Hegseth, is facing explosive allegations detailed in a resurfaced whistleblower report detailing claims of drunken sexual misconduct during his tenure leading veteran advocacy organizations.
Hegseth, who previously helmed Veterans for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) from 2013 to 2016, was accused of fostering a workplace environment rife with sexism in a seven-page report compiled by CVA employees and sent to senior management in February 2015.
Over the weekend, The New Yorker profiled the allegations in an expose that raised further questions about his fitness for public office.
Here are the five most shocking allegations:
During a CVA event in Louisiana, Hegseth reportedly took his team to a strip club, where he became so intoxicated he had to be restrained from joining the dancers on stage.
In late November, 2014, Hegseth and his team deployed to Louisiana for a U.S. Senate runoff. This is when, according to the whistle-blower complaint, Hegseth took the C.V.A. team to the strip club, where “he was so drunk he tried to get on the stage and dance with the strippers.”
A female C.V.A. associate, the report says, “had to get him off of the stage,” adding, “She had to intervene with security to prevent him from getting thrown out.” The whistle-blower continued, as if in disbelief, “A Fox News contributor, with the rank of captain (at the time) in the National Guard, and...
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