Tuesday brought us the confirmation hearings for Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense. There very many fiery and memorable moments between Hegseth and Democratic senators, including Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, who was also Hillary Clinton’s running mate in 2016. Kaine, and other Democrats, voiced concerns about Hegseth’s private life, including his infidelity and his previous marriages. Kaine even began by saying he had been “looking forward” to such questioning.
The senator sought to bring up that infidelity in the context of sexual allegations made against Hegseth, with the nominee stressing he had been “falsely charged, fully investigated, and completely cleared.”
With a lecturing tone towards the nominee, Kaine wondered, “So you think you are completely cleared because you committed no crime? That’s your definition of ‘cleared?’ You had just fathered a child two months before by a woman that was not your wife! I am shocked,” Kaine continued, as he threw up his hands, “that you would say ‘you are completely cleared,’ can you so casually cheat on a second wife, and cheat on the mother of your child that had been born two months before, and you tell us ‘you are completely cleared?’ How is that ‘a complete clear?'”
Beyond the gross and intimate line of questioning from the animated senator, the sexual assault allegations are also separate issues from the infidelity that occurred in Hegseth’s previous marriages.
Once the senator had taken a break from denigrating the nominee and his family, Hegseth spoke up for that child. “Senator, her child’s name is Gwendolyn Hope Hegseth, and she’s a child of God and she is seven-years-old.” That didn’t stop Kaine from attacking Hegseth further, though. […]
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