The mother of President Trump's defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth sent an emotional email accusing his ex-wife of abuse during a difficult divorce in 2018, according to emails viewed by Breitbart News on Saturday. Immediately after sending it to my son, I apologized to him.
In a follow-up email sent on May 1, 2018, Penelope Hegseth apologized for sending the email the night before out of emotion and frustration and said she should have known better.
She added that the divorce was difficult and frustrating for her and left her desperate. He also added that he knows he loves the children he shares with his ex-wife and wants to be in their lives, and he wants to support them in that.
The email had a completely different tone than the one she had written the night before, and it was published by the newspaper. new york times Friday against her wishes.
In the first email she sent on April 30, 2018, Hegseth berated her son for his treatment of his ex-wife Samantha, who he was married to from 2010 to 2017 and is the mother of his three grandchildren. was. Hegseth's mother forwarded the email. Samantha managed to arrive, times.
When Hegseth's mother was told this, times After publishing the email, she said in a phone interview that she immediately sent a follow-up email to her son apologizing for what she had written.
she also said times She claimed that she fired off the emails “in anger and emotion” at a time when her son and ex-wife were going through a very difficult divorce.
She also defended her son times And he denied what she said in the email about his character or his treatment of women.
“That's not true. It's never been true,” she told the newspaper, adding, “I know my son. He's a good father and husband.” He also said it was “uncomfortable” to make it public.
Nevertheless, LaFraniere supported the article and promoted it on his X account, informing readers that it was a “gift” or free article rather than a paid article.
LaFraniere — who was a member of of the times The Pulitzer Prize-winning report on the Russian collusion hoax was personally biased against Hegseth, one news outlet reported. new york times sauce.
A source said: “She said Pete Hegseth can't be SECDEF and she's going to keep it that way.'' I looked at her like she was crazy and wondered how she was going to deal with it.'' But I don't think there's any need to hesitate now.”
A source close to Hegseth said several media outlets were aware of the original email but did not publish its contents.
The source said she did not send a follow-up email. times Because she didn't trust them and thought she would trust Breitbart News instead. The sources did not want the emails to be made public to avoid continuing the cycle of exposing private communications between mother and son.
Author and military veteran Sean Parnell called LaFraniere “despicably vile” and “sickening” for publishing the emails. He wrote to X:
The New York Times published private emails between mother and son six years ago. This is despicably low on many levels. The family has problems. forever. It is evil to publicize these issues for the sole purpose of thwarting nominations. period. Pete has a child. they will read this. Their friends will read it. It would be extremely irresponsible to announce something like this. Democrats don't have to deal with this issue. It's disgusting.
Parnell also accused LaFraniere of promoting the story on the X account.
She's proud of publishing private emails exchanged between a mother and son six years ago, and suggests ways to get around the NYT's paywall.
President Trump is right about this scum — #EnemyOfThePeople.
“It is no exaggeration to say that the media plays that role. #enemy of the people. Exploiting a family’s personal pain during a very difficult time is incredibly abhorrent. Especially when small children are involved. The Hegseth family does not deserve these BS attacks.”
Podcast host and former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly also ridiculed the remarks. times To publish emails. She posted on X:
Eye stain @Pete Hegseth's mother sent him an email during their divorce that said, “Your attitude is very bad” (she's a good mother!), and the New York Times is totally on board with this. He then hears from his aunt who berates him for being late in sending her a thank you note after Christmas six years ago.
of times's reports about the private emails came after a concerted smear campaign against Hegseth, a Washington outsider, aimed at blocking his nomination to lead the government's largest agency.
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