When Pete Hegseth, Trump's defence head pick, shouted ‘kill all Muslims’ in a drunk state

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense, once shouted at a bar 'kill all Muslims' in a drunk state. The former Fox News host once drunkenly shouted “kill all Muslims!” in the middle of a bar while serving as the president of a veterans’ group, according to a report in The New Yorker.

Pete Hegseth was pushed out as the head of two veterans' advocacy organisations amid internal allegations of mismanagement and personal misconduct. The two non-profit advocacy groups -- Veterans for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America -- both led by Hegseth have the recording apart from other evidence of financial mismanagement and inappropriate sexual advances, according to the report.

Reacting to the fresh claims, Hegseth's lawyers said these outlandish claims must have come from a "petty and jealous disgruntled former associate".


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Pete Hegseth sexually pursued female staffers

A whistleblower report obtained by the magazine alleged that, during his time leading one of those nonprofit advocacy groups, Hegseth was repeatedly intoxicated at work events and gatherings with staff. It also alleged that he sexually pursued female staffers.

The report is the latest jaw-dropping allegation Hegseth, a veteran and former Fox News host with no prior government experience, ahead of what’s expected to be a tough Senate confirmation process. It comes on the heels of reports detailing a sexual assault allegation from 2017, which Hegseth has denied and in which no charges were filed.

Pete Hegseth has already been accused of a sexual assault incident that took place in 2017 but Hegseth said the incident was consensual. But since he was blackmailed during the Me Too movement, he had to pay the woman.

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What are the allegations against Pete Hegseth?

The New York cited a previously undisclosed whistleblower report on Pete Hegseth's tenure as the president of the Concerned Veterans for America that said Hegseth was found intoxicated while acting in his official capacity and sometimes he needed to be carried out of the organization's events.

At one such event, Hegseth had to be restrained from joining the dancers on the stage of a Louisiana strip club. Hegseth also his team to the club, the report claimed, adding that the organization ignored a female employee’s allegation that another member of Hegseth’s staff attempted to sexually assault her at that strip club.

On top of that, he used his position to essentially prey on young female staffers. Hegseth and some other members of his management team divided the female staff into two groups: the "party girls" and the "not party girls".

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When Pete Hegseth shouted 'kill all Muslims' at a bar

In 2015, at a bar, Hegseth drunkenly chanted 'kill all Muslims" during the early hours. In a separate letter of complaint to CVA management, one former employee “described Hegseth being at a bar in the early-morning hours of May 29, 2015, while on an official tour through Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, drunkenly chanting ‘Kill All Muslims! Kill All Muslims!’”

The whistleblower report further claimed that CVA had become a hostile workplace, especially for women, with allegations that attempted sexual assaults and harassment had largely been ignored.

According to the previously undisclosed report, which was compiled by several CVA employees and sent to the group’s management in 2015, Hegseth’s repeated drunken behavior had become an embarrassment to the rest of the staff.

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“I’ve seen him drunk so many times. I’ve seen him dragged away not a few times but multiple times. To have him at the Pentagon would be scary,” one of the whistleblowers told the New Yorker, adding: “When those of us who worked at C.V.A. heard he was being considered for SecDef, it wasn’t ‘No,’ it was ‘Hell No!’”

In January 2016, Hegseth resigned from Concerned Veterans for America under pressure. He had no other jobs at that time. On his silent departure, he said, "Sometimes it just makes sense to make a transition." But the New Yorker cited sources who claimed he was made to resign because of his mismanagement and alcohol abuse.