Pete Hegseth, the former Fox News host who’s President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to oversee the Pentagon, was forced out of top roles at two veterans groups, according to a new bombshell report from The New Yorker.
Hegseth was forced to resign his roles at both Veterans for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America due to “serious allegations of financial mismanagement, sexual impropriety, and personal misconduct,” the outlet reported Sunday night. The former Army National Guard officer also faces allegations he sexually assaulted a woman in 2017, though Hegseth maintains the encounter was consensual.
The magazine cited a damning whistleblower account of Hegseth’s behavior at CVA, which he ran from 2013 to 2016. According to The New Yorker, “[Hegseth] and other members of his management team sexually pursued the organization’s female staffers” and promoted a culture of sexism that culminated in the attempted assault of a female employee by a male colleague during a 2014 team outing to a Louisiana strip club. The report also alleges that Hegseth got so drunk that night he had to be restrained from joining the dancers onstage.
