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The explosive email by Pete Hegseth’s mother sent to him in 2018 surfaced weeks before new administration takes office next year.
Donald Trump’s pick for Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth (Reuters File Image)
The mother of Pete Hegseth, US President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Defence Secretary, accused him of mistreating women over the years and exhibiting a lack of moral character.
The email was written in 2018 and was made public by The New York Times weeks before the new administration takes over in January next year.
“On behalf of all the women (and I know it’s many) you have abused in some way, I say … get some help and take an honest look at yourself,” Penelope Hegseth wrote in the email, adding that she still loved him.
“I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth,” the email further read.
In a telephonic interview with The New York Times on Friday, Pete’s mother said that she had got back to him immediately on the email apologising for her previous email. She said that she had written the original email “in anger and with emotion” when he and his wife were undergoing a divorce.
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