Republicans appear to know that Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense isn’t a sure thing.
Military veteran and Fox New host Pete Hegseth’s nomination has been under fire from the moment Trump announced him as his pick. On Sunday, The New Yorker published a report alleging Hegseth had a history of alcohol abuse, sexual misconduct and mismanagement at the two veterans organizations he ran.
The New Yorker report compounds allegations detailed in a 2017 police report that Hegseth sexually assaulted a woman. Hegseth was not charged, and has maintained that he was “cleared.”