Why Hegseth's wife?

[RainCaster]

The drunken A-hole includes his wife in text chats about top secret war ops. Then he brings her to high level meetings with other countries. Why?

My theory:
He remains so drunk that he knows he must have someone else in the room to remember everything said. She's the only one who can't be asked to testify against him.

[Deuxcents]

1. Reports say he also had his personal attorney involved

[Irish_Dem]

4. And his brother whom he put on the payroll.

Maybe his attorney is on the payroll too.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Yes, is she his babysitter, minder, his functional memory, his support animal?

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Is he drunk most of the time, in blackouts, he has no recall of what he said or did?

Or is she making sure he is not drinking on the job?

Has he put her on the payroll, so she has to show up every now and then?

Is she his emotional support animal?
He knows people don't like him, that he is incompetent and in way over his head.
So he brings his wife along to hold his hand.

[Marie Marie]

15. I vote for her being his support animal.

And she, being a former Fox news producer, probably thinks she is smart enough to have access to and advise him on national defense issues. She seems as smug and arrogant as he.

[Irish_Dem]

22. Yes anyone arrogant enough to crash and flaunt herself

Like this at high level, Pentagon classified briefings has got to be a piece of work.

[Hugin]

20. Or it's the other way around, he has control issues and won't let her out of his sight.

I had seen evidence of this in earlier reports. He doesn’t trust her. Pretty typical of psychopaths.

[Irish_Dem]

21. Yes this is a possibility.

Could be a combination of factors and this is one of them.

[True Dough]

3. Another question: Why is she Hegseth's wife?

Who would want to marry that lousy, cheating, morally-bankrupt monster?

[dem4decades]

5. I haven't a clue as to why any woman would marry a Republican.

[Brother Buzz]

6. She wears the pants in their relationship

[GenThePerservering]

16. BINGO! n/t

[MiHale]

26. That's what I was thinking...

He’s just the ‘pretty’ boy…she’s in charge.

[Deuxcents]

7. He made it a family affair the second time he screwed up with Signal chat

[Skittles]

8. I'm confused about the couch thing

I thought that was Vance

[RainCaster]

9. oh yeah- it is. Hogs breath is just a garden variety drunk

[Drum]

10. AA sponsor?

[RainCaster]

11. AA would not condone that

A sponsor should never be your spouse.
Should always be same sex and usually same orientation.

[Drum]

12. Thanks for the info and perspective.

I do not know the parameters. I meant no offense.

[RainCaster]

14. no offense taken

You're right- he needs AA. It looks like he's not ready yet though.

[Irish_Dem]

23. AA sponsors don't usually follow people around

At work to make sure they don’t drink.

[PSPS]

13. Sadly, I know first hand about alcoholic family members

She could very well act as his "beard."

My late brother, who drank himself to death, successively hid his alcoholism for many years because his family covered for him. My other brothers and I, as well as our parents, were absolutely gobsmacked when we found out.

When one of us would call him, his wife or son would say he was out when he was passed out on the couch. If he was up and sober, we'd go over and everyone pretended like everything was normal. But, as soon as we left, out came the liquor. When we'd set up a get-together, he'd agree but, as it got worse, he'd get out of it somehow. He lost his years-long professional job, then hopped from one menial job to another. He treated my two nephews badly. His wife divorced him when the youngest boy went to college.

Alcoholism is hard to overcome. Hegseth has a lot of problems that should disqualify his serving in any leadership role anywhere. Alcoholism is just one of them.

[calimary]

17. Aha! That makes sense.

[DET]

18. It Wouldnt Surprise Me...

If she is sneaking him baby bottles of liquor (they probably have a name, but I don’t know what it is) during potty breaks. If he’s as far gone as people have reported, he probably needs something to function in any capacity.

[RainCaster]

19. IMO he's a black-out drunk who would have a week of DTs

If he ever tried to quit.

[Irish_Dem]

24. This is what I think as well.

He can’t stop drinking, the DTs would kill him without medical supervision.

[Tickle]

25. If hegbreth was drunk there

would be pictures and probably a name

[lark]

27. Great minds etc.

I was thinking the same thing, that he didn't know what he was doing and relied on wife and brother to keep him under control and to tamp down the damage he might otherwise do. Plus as you said, she can't be compelled to testify against him and the brother is also his lawyer so same thing (I think). He is a total clown and sooo very out of his depth that he knows is and is trying to compensate for his total inadequacy.