Pete Hegseth is having his name dragged through the mud by Democrats.
He’s discovering who he can trust from his old career.
And Pete Hegseth was horrified after he discovered this secret about Senate Democrats.
Senate Democrats used a disgruntled former employee to smear Hegseth
President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has been put through the wringer during the confirmation process.
Democrats and their media allies have relentlessly attacked him using hit pieces that came from anonymous sources.
From 2013 to 2016, Hegseth served as the executive director of Concerned Veterans for America (CVA), a grassroots organization that works to get veterans engaged in the political process.
A disgruntled former CVA employee has been secretly feeding attacks to Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee, according to records uncovered by the Washington Free Beacon.
Former CVA employee Kat Dugan is encouraging current and former group employees to contact the committee and provide anonymous dirt on Hegseth.
“When calling, state ‘I am calling as a whistleblower and understand that my identity will be protected.’ Once confirmation is received, simply state any information. They are asking for any supporting documents,” Dugan allegedly wrote a former CVA employee.
She’s also testified behind closed doors before the committee.
Dugan was CVA’s North Carolina state director where she received a bad performance review in 2014.
After that performance review, she went on short-term disability, then long-term disability, and ultimately quit her job with CVA.
Former CVA national field director Shawn Pattison said that Dugan “consistently fell short of performance expectations.”
Pattison praised Hegseth for his leadership, which “transformed CVA from a pilot project into the organization that delivered on [Veterans Affairs] reforms.”
Disgruntled employee has been after Hegseth for years
Hegseth was mentioned as a potential candidate to be Trump’s Secretary of Veterans Affairs in March 2018.
His attorney sent a cease-and-desist letter to Dugan, claiming that she had made “false and defamatory statements” about Hegseth to a writer at The Spectator.
In 2018, The Spectator published an article citing unnamed sources that claimed Hegseth supported a “fraternity-like culture that involved heavy drinking” at CVA and ignored a sexual assault accusation.
Hegseth has faced stories claiming he has a drinking problem based on anonymous sources that echoed what The Spectator claimed.
New Yorker writer Jane Mayer wrote a hit piece about Hegseth’s drinking problems at CVA that was heavily circulated by Democrats and their media allies.
“A previously undisclosed whistle-blower report on Hegseth’s tenure as the president of Concerned Veterans for America, from 2013 until 2016, describes him as being repeatedly intoxicated while acting in his official capacity—to the point of needing to be carried out of the organization’s events,” Mayer wrote.
NBC News ran another hit job that cited anonymous employees at Fox News who claimed that Hegseth had a drinking problem when he worked at the network.
Hegseth’s former co-hosts on Fox & Friends Weekend claimed that the story was fake.
The media is using a disgruntled employee to build a narrative against Hegseth to sink his nomination.
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