Ann Coulter doesn’t suppose extremely of Donald Trump’s controversial nominee to guide the Department of Defense — but it surely’s not as a result of he’s been accused of rape.
The conservative commentator skewered Fox News host Pete Hegseth’s character throughout Monday’s episode of her podcast, “Unsafe with Ann Coulter,” however appeared to dismiss Hegseth’s rape accuser and as a substitute took concern together with his dishonest, calling Trump’s Cabinet decide “sleazy” and a “serial adulterer.”
Hegseth was investigated for allegedly raping a lady after talking at an occasion for Republican girls in 2017. Prosecutors declined to press expenses, citing an absence of “proof beyond a reasonable doubt.”
The information anchor, who has been married 3 times and was within the midst of his second divorce on the time of the alleged rape, has repeatedly claimed that the encounter was consensual.
Coulter seems to have accepted his rationalization and instructed on Monday’s episode that it was potential Hegseth’s accuser had “cried rape.”
She did, nevertheless, take concern together with his adultery.
“In all of this talk about about whether whether Pete Hegseth is an abuser of women, it just, no one even mentioned that he is a serial adulterer!” she informed listeners. “Are we a society that doesn’t care about adultery anymore?”
Noting that not one however two of Hegseth’s divorces reportedly stemmed from infidelity, Coulter mentioned, “The fact that it was three times, and this sleazy, and everyone at Fox News knew about it is one thing. But seriously … No one is even mentioning the adultery!”
Somehow, Coulter then discovered a technique to blame Democrats for Hegseth’s ethical failures.
“I’m sorry, this is liberals winning,” she informed listeners. “This is liberals changing our culture in this subtle and insidious way where the only rules that matter are the feminist rules, not the rules that have protected women for millennia, like don’t cheat on your wife.”
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While Hegseth was not charged over the 2017 rape allegation, his personal mom known as him an “abuser of women” in 2018 e mail that not too long ago got here to gentle.
“You are an abuser of women — that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego,” she wrote to her son.
Trump’s willingness to miss the controversy round Hegseth might have so much to do together with his personal historical past. The president-elect has been accused of sexual abuse by dozens of ladies over his a long time within the public eye.
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