Pete Hegseth, nominated to lead the Department of Defense and return it to its mission, has been accused by a woman of awful things that supposedly happened during a date with him.
The accusations involve alcohol, partying, and sexual assault in 2017, and the woman who says she is the victim filed a police report about it at the time.
Hegseth has described her as what many would see a stalker obsessed with him at the time. The former Fox News host denies the assault allegations and told California police in 2017 that “there was ‘always’ conversation and ‘always’ consensual contact,” between him and the woman. The Monterey County district attorney and the Monterey police Department investigated but could find nothing solid to support the claims. They refused to prosecute.
“As far as the media is concerned, it’s very simple: The matter was fully investigated and I was completely cleared, and that’s where I’m gonna leave it,” Hegseth said last week on Capitol Hill, as he was making the rounds to meet with Republican senators, who will be the ones to confirm or deny his appointment.
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski will be in the spotlight once again on this and other confirmation votes. She hates Donald Trump and could become his worst Senate nightmare, for confirmations and legislation.
Murkowski famously went against the nomination of now-U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was confirmed without her vote, which was “present.” Kavanaugh had also been accused by a woman for a sexual assault that supposedly took place during a college party. He also denied the accusation, but Murkowski, who flunked the Alaska Bar Exam three times, was in the “believe all women” category and decided he wasn’t qualified.
Murkowski even asked for an addition FBI background check on Kavanaugh, saying “I was one who joined in asking that the FBI step in and do further review.” In the end, she just sat there and didn’t vote.
Over the eruptions of ululating women protesters in the Senate gallery and halls, the vote to confirm Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court proceeded 50-48, with just one senator withholding her vote: Murkowski.
A “present” vote is technically a “no” vote.
Once, Murkowski was a defender of the wrongly accused. Harken back to Sen. Ted Stevens, subject of a Department of Justice witch hunt back in 2008. Murkowski believed Stevens. But that was then. And this is now — one of Donald Tump’s appointees. She was one of seven Republican senators who voted to convict Trump for an imagined role in the Jan. 6, 2021, surge of protesters at the U.S. Capitol.
Of the six most likely holdouts on Hegseth, including Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and Sen.-elect John Curtis of Utah, Murkowski appears to be the most dug in on all the appointments, saying she will need to see their FBI reports. And then maybe additional ones, as she did with Justice Kavanaugh.
It is so past time for Murkowski to go…
He should wear a unitard, shave his head, and wear lipstick to at least after the confirmation
Believe all women except Murkowski.
When there is doubt, there is no doubt. Lisa will do everything she can to torpedo Hegseth. I’ve already heard her Republican establishment and mega-donor compatriots trash-talking Hegseth. People who have Lisa’s ear and whose ear Lisa has. The question is more of whether there are other R votes to confirm him. Lisa is so blinded by her Trump hate that she’s long been a lost cause
We need to impeach Murkowski. All she is, is a proverbial stumbling block that will not allow things to get done.
She needs to go. She hasn’t been about Alaska for over 10 years… Only jumping on the bandwagons of accusations…. Give it up Crypt Keeper Murkowski…
Let’s “primary” her wrinkled-old a$$ as soon as possible … We know she’ll be an obstacle for Trump and his nominees … didn’t the Alaska Republican Party vote on censuring her a couple of years ago?
Megan Kelly gets into the details of all of this here: ‘https://rumble.com/v5s56yh-media-lies-about-hegseth-and-cultural-shift-that-led-to-trumps-victory-w-vd.html
If Murkowski votes against Pete it is because she suffers from TDS. I am glad as Alaskans we get another chance to replace her in a couple of years.
That candid photo of Feinstein threatening her in the hallway during the Kavanaugh theatrics tells all. She is compromised in some way, and whatever it is they have on her they’re always going to use to control her.
Ululating. Thems some real big words.
Murkowski is serving her masters, the deep state Washington DC republican establishment. She’s sure won’t be reelected in this state and want to do as mush destruction to DJT and his administration, which will also effect Alaska. It’s now time to remove this infestation on Alaska. Wonder what the process would be?