Will Murkowski do to Defense nominee Pete Hegseth what she did to Justice Brett Kavanaugh?

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Sen. Lisa Murkowski

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.

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  1. 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

  2. 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…

  3. 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?

  4. 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.

      • if ranked choice voting stays, I’d tend to agree……..although that only worked for Peltola once. Just like with everything else in politics, magic tricks tend to have a rather short life. If RCV gets canned, Lisa is fairy dust. And the party will eventually learn how to turn RCV to their advantage. Eventually, a house is going to fall on the Wicked Witch of the North, and her toes are going to curl up into the annals of bad memories.

        • The Honorable Senator did not need RCV to win her last election.
          If your knowledge was as good as your hate, than your comments would have merit 😉

          • Actually people use the RCV to mean Jungle Primaries and Ranked Choice Voting and yes, it was designed for her by her minion Kendall and yes, the dishonorable Lisa could not win a Republican primary any longer after voting to convict Trump …. so Reggie is right and you are hitting on the ID10T bong. Just stop.

          • the “honorable” Senator would not have been the Republican nominee if it were not for the majority of Democrats voting for her in the jungle primary (part of the RCV BM2). So, only technically correct if you choose to willfully ignore the jungle primary aspect of RCV.
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            And, do not make comments about “merit” when your own comment is deliberately ignoring inconvenient facts that do not support your position.

    • I just can’t figure out what her problem // malfunction is? Whatever her motive – purpose – intent is, it spells disaster for Alaskans and Alaska, will most likely prove herself to be ineffective and burdensome over the next 4-years … just another crazy cat lady. Hopefully, Sully can sit her down and talk some reason and/or sense to her … “if not the carrot, then the stick.” Her militant // aggressiveness towards the Trump Administration won’t go unrecognized and Elon may try to make an example of her in the next election cycle, all of which, really would benefit Alaskans and Alaska!

  5. 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.

  6. 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?

  7. Lisa is compromised, I’m sure there was some type of skim on all those millions she took from her Uncle Joe. Can’t she be recalled or something?

  8. It would be interesting to learn just who this woman is representing. It doesn’t appear to be the state of Alaska or its majority conservative voters. So who is it?

  9. Was her so called purchase of her Kenai river property ever thoroughly investigated? What did she do in return for a very low purchase price of Kenai river frontage property?

  10. She votes against Alaskans all the time and yet you vote her in office can you tell me why? She voted for Biden and for Harris and their policies against Alaska!

  11. To day the Senior Senator “Princess” voted for confirmation of a judge who supports men in women’s sports.
    That says a lot about her moral priorities, as again potentially against a non-charged ‘she said, he said’ issue on moral grounds only to support a legislative action allowing men in women sports, being apparently, a non moral issue with her vote to day.
    Outrageous that a safety shield of separation is removed from women in general proving the erosion of comfort for privacy between the sexes is vanquished.
    Sad
    A.M.Johnson-Ketchikan

  12. Lisa Murkowski is a sicko. A spoiled rotten girl turned into a worst nightmare for her parents. And now we Alaskans have to suffer through her mental illness. She has to go!

    • Where’s the link to such a vile claim? You make all sorts of claims in these comment sections, where are your receipts backing your claims.

        • When one puts forth such information, if true they present the reciepts. Don’t worry it wasn’t hard to find and it’s nothing more than the New York Times using a stolen email which Pete’s mother regrets writing. You might want to take your own advice and dig a little deeper. It’s funny how you instantly post it all.over the place like a school girl, without knowing the whole story. Who is Lazy?

          • Many times in anger, things are said that probably our best left in our pockets, but that doesn’t mean they’re not true. Moreover, that’s when probably the truth does come out because your filters are turned off. I believe his mom when she says she wishes she hadn’t have said it because now it’s being used against him but I also believe that what she said was true.

      • I just did a search about Pete’s mom says he abuses women, and it’s everywhere. Everyone is covering it. You have to not try to find it. I doubt i could post things on here if the were not true. Try harder. Will it change your mind about the rapists?

          • You have it all wrong. I don’t give a crap whether I’m accepted or not. This isn’t a reality situation here. Think of this as nothing more than entertainment, and you’ll last a lot longer. Hell Most people don’t have enough gumption to even give their real names. Such as made up names like denali. Who does that?

  13. For Hegsteth and all these others who these Democrat Vermin and RINOs will no doubts be trying to destroy in these up coming hearings, …Hegsteth and all others need to be pre prepared and lead off their opening statements on the Offensive. When the knives come out and all these cherry
    Picked Questions get asked, they need to engage all these scum bag democrats and counter their Questions head on with their own to each and every one of these Dems and RINOs, they should be digging up all kinds of Dirt on each and everyone of these political scum bags right now, Hegsteth really needs to just say out right to all them right at the beginning, Who in the hell are anyone of you people on this committee to question my values , integrity and my service etc etc, he needs to be blunt , aggressive, and borderline combative against these pukes who will be looking to destroy him. Do like Clarence Thomas did when these scumbags come after your integrity, drop the hammer and attack attack back, put all these scum bags in to perspective and on the defense right from their opening statements in these up coming hearings,and hammer away at each and ever one of these people who are out to destroy you. Everyone one of these Dems who will be questioning him have tons of dirt in their past, dig it up now and Throw it right back in their faces during these hearings, just like Clarence Thomas did, you need to attack these bastards head on and then they will eventually run for cover, in the end because their all cowards and criminals them selfs!!!

  14. Hey Greg , where was he charged and convicted, accusations are merely that, and it laughable when these puke Dems even have a say in anything lol

  15. Accusations are just that until they are totally proven, and it’s always kinda funny how when ever a Republican president attempts to build his cabinet and choose Supreme Court nominees, it’s allways the Democrat Machine and their Pravda News media who brings out fossilized or extinct accusers, most whom never even surface or reveal them selves . They have been doing this for at-least 40 years I know of. But on the other hand you can parade out mountains of solid proof and evidence for the entire world to see if you’re a Republican who rarely challenges nominees , and you get only crickets or vile counter attacks
    From the Dems and their media. These lunatics always seem to accuse all others of exactly what they are doing or what they have already done lol.. Then we have the clueless and totally uniformed people like Greg who step into the arena of judging who obviously need to educate and inform themselves , it’s laughable beyond belief!!

  16. Well, there’s more that came out today about when he was running those veteran groups. He had to step down because he was drunk all the time and ran them out of money and went to strip clubs, trying to dance with the strippers.

  17. Lisa is such a pathetic nepotism corrupt politician. She is an embarrassment in her poor judgment. She voted for the current POS Sec DHS Alejandro Mayorkas. Can we hold her responsible for every CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIEN that is come across the border in the last four years? Can we hold her responsible for every American that has been killed by fentanyl that came over the border? Can’t she be held responsible for every woman that has been raped and murdered by those illegal criminals? Pathetic failure as a representative.

    • You can hold her responsible by greeting her with the contemptShe deserves should you ever have the chance to interact with her in person. Not just her, but her entire family. And anyone you know that supports her!

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