Pete Hegseth's Mom

[Coldwater]

knows him only too well

[SheltieLover]

1. Link?

[Coldwater]

3. New York Times

[SheltieLover]

6. I saw the reference, but wondered whether you could post a link to it

[progressoid]

4. here ya go....

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/us/politics/pete-hegseth-mother-email.html

[Coldwater]

2. We knew he was an abuser of women

but reading those words from his mother makes it more real and more powerful

[progressoid]

5. Unfortunately, she also retracted what she wrote.

"Mrs. Hegseth, in a phone interview with The New York Times on Friday, said that she had sent her son an immediate follow-up email at the time apologizing for what she had written. She said she had fired off the original email “in anger, with emotion” at a time when he and his wife were going through a very difficult divorce.

In the interview, she defended her son and disavowed the sentiments she had expressed in the initial email about his character and treatment of women. “It is not true. It has never been true,” she said. She added: “I know my son. He is a good father, husband.” She said that publishing the contents of the first email was “disgusting.”

[Coldwater]

8. and yet by sheer coincidence

both previous marriages ended in divorce for reasons of infidelity, excessive drinking, alcoholism, and abuse.

[newdeal2]

9. You don't write a letter like that to your son without reason

She was likely telling the truth the first time.

[Justice matters.]

10. She was scared of the maga mob in that phone interview.

You know, the death-threats mob.

IMO. To my knowledge, she never showed that follow-up email.

[BaronChocula]

11. I'm invoking a legal precedent as old as time

No Backsies.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. The bell can't be un-rung. She was not fantasizing when she wrote that. . . . . nt

[Bread and Circuses]

7. Brave woman!

[Champp]

13. How shameful