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A new AP-NORC poll finds just 19% of Americans approve of Pete Hegseth being nominated as the secretary of defense.
“How many senators have showed up drunk to vote at night? Have any of you guys asked them to step down and resign from their jobs? And don’t tell me you haven’t seen it, because I know you have.”
— Sen. Markwayne Mullen (R-OK), quoted by the Daily Beast, defending Secretary of Defense-designate Pete Hegseth.
“Let’s get this straight: Pete Hegseth used to drink too much and couldn’t keep his dick in his pants. He’d make a great senator.”
— Former GOP Senate aide Mike Davis, on X, suggesting senators operate with a moral double standard.
“This is the biggest deployment of my life, and there won’t be a drop of alcohol on my lips while I’m doing it.”
— Pete Hegseth, pledging to Megan Kelly to not drink alcohol while serving as defense secretary.
“Are soldiers sometimes wild childs? Yeah, that can happen.”
— Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), quoted by NBC News, on Pete Hegseth’s nomination of to be Defense Secretary.
The author of an email critical of Fox News host-turned-Trump Defense Secretary pick Pete Hegseth threatened New Yorker writer Jane Mayer that “if you print that, I will deny I wrote it,” and when Mayer reminded him “that it had been sent from the same personal e-mail account that he still uses,” the author wrote, “I don’t care. I’ll just say it never happened.”
