Pete Hegseth Compares Vicious Treatment by the Media in Confirmation Hearings to Kavanaugh Saga; Pete Hegseth Tells Megyn Kelly He Believes He Is Being ‘Kavanaugh’d’ During Confirmation Process

Pete Hegseth compares vicious treatment by the media in confirmation hearings to Kavanaugh saga:

President-elect Donald Trump’s Secretary of Defense pick Pete Hegseth is comparing vicious media reports about his alleged sexual misconduct to what Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh endured during the jurist’s heated confirmation process in 2018.

Hegseth, 44, first likened his nomination fight to Kavanaugh’s on Wednesday morning in a meeting with House Republicans on Capitol Hill, Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas) told The Post.

“I think his point was, you know, a lot of anonymous sources can say anything,” the congresswoman said after emerging from the closed-door session with the Republican Study Committee, the largest House GOP caucus. “That was one example that he said.”

“What we’re hearing from all of [the] folks who he’s working with for 18 years is, this is an honest, good guy,” she affirmed.

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, speaks to reporters after visiting with senators on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 21, 2024.

Anonymous accusers and whistleblowers at vet nonprofits Hegseth headed up have come out against the defense secretary-designee in recent weeks, claiming that in the 2010s the Army vet often drank on the job and made inappropriate sexual advances — including an alleged assault.

Hegseth, who is on his third marriage, has vehemently denied the allegations, along with two former senior employees who worked alongside him at the advocacy nonprofit Concerned Veterans for America, who called the claims “false” and completely “insane.”

Though he was confirmed, Kavanaugh himself faced accusations of sexual assault — as well as lurid falsehoods about having participated in “gang rapes” with male classmates at parties.

Christine Blasey Ford claimed that the future judge assaulted her at a high school party in 1982 — but several witnesses dispute her account, including her high school friend Leland Keyser, who later said, “I don’t have any confidence in the story.” —>READ MORE HERE

Pete Hegseth Tells Megyn Kelly He Believes He Is Being ‘Kavanaugh’d’ During Confirmation Process:

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, told SiriusXM’s Megyn Kelly on Wednesday that he believes he is the target of a “smear” campaign, comparing his experience to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation process.

After Trump nominated Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court in 2018, Democratic lawmakers quickly sought to derail his confirmation, portraying him as partisan and using sexual assault allegations that surfaced after his nomination to weaken his bid. On “The Megyn Kelly Show,” Hegseth sat down to discuss the backlash against him, with Kelly asking if he believes he is being “Kavanaugh’d.”

“I had a member, not 45 minutes ago, look me in the eye in private, just he and I, and say, ‘That’s what they’re trying to do to you,’” Hegseth said. “‘That’s their playbook. Get ready for more, and they’re gonna make it up, just like they have so far. All anonymous, all innuendo, all rumor, nothing sourced, no verification and they’re just gonna keep doing it, because you’re a threat to them. You’re a threat to their system. You’re a threat to all the things in Washington D.C., the swamp, the things that people have rejected. You’re a threat to that, and so they’re coming after you.’”

“I know that, he knows that, and when you stand firm on that, it’s not difficult to just continue to fight. So yeah, we saw what happened, but guess what happened? Kavanaugh stood up, and he fought, and he won, and hopefully Republicans have learned that lesson,” Hegseth added.

Hegseth noted that despite the criticism from lawmakers, Trump still stood by Kavanaugh, stating that what the public is witnessing in his process is the “classic art of the smear” in order to take “tiny kernels of truth” and “blow them up into a masquerade of a narrative.”

“What they never quote, and we’ll get into this too, are the legions of people from whom I served with in combat, multiple tours, from the multiple veterans organizations that I very proudly ran, and I really want to get into that, and my time at Fox News. They never asked the people closest to me,” Hegseth said. —>WATCH and READ MORE HERE

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