While Fox News host Pete Hegseth has faced increasing scrutiny among Republican senators ahead of what could become a contentious nominating process for secretary of defense, he said on Wednesday on social media that he won’t “back down.”
President-elect Donald Trump named Hegseth—a former Army National Guard officer and a former director of several veterans groups—to lead the Pentagon.
However, a 2017 police report from a California city detailing an assault allegation against Hegseth, which he has denied through a lawyer, has drawn scrutiny among some GOP senators.
Meanwhile, a recent media report, citing alleged sources inside Fox News, that he was drinking while at work is also threatening to derail his nomination, although several Fox News personalities have gone on social platform X to refute the claims….