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FELLOW TRAVELLERS ... MAGA PETE HEGSETH ... SECRETARY OF DEFENSE Pete Hegseth EXPLODES after Tim Kaine yells SHUT UP FOOL PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEO Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrApPW9qbu8
Pete Hegseth EXPLODES after Tim Kaine yells SHUT UP FOOL Liberal Pulse Aug 2, 2025 6.45K subscribers ... 9,631 views ... 382 likes UNITED STATES Pete Hegseth EXPLODES after Tim Kaine yells SHUT UP FOOL Let’s talk about what just went down between Senator Tim Kaine and Pete Hegseth- #petehegseth #timkaine #trump #chrismurphy Peter Burgess COMMENTARY Trump and the Trump appointments into the US administration as a whole are an embarrassment ... and the people of the United States are going to pay a very high price for this debacle. The people of the USA are going to pay a very high price for the 'choices' this Trump administration are making. Sadly ... most of the choices will not be able to be reversed. Since the end of WWII, most nations have 'tolerated' the USA because it was the only major economy that had power after the war. In the case of the UK, a big part of the gold wealth at the Bank of England was transferred to the United States to 'pay for' the support Britain and its dependancies got from the USA. These payment ... as well as 'Lend-Lease' repayments ... made the USA wealthy at the expense of Great Britain. The USA is 'money rich' Peter Burgess Transcript 0:00 What we just witnessed in the Senate confirmation hearing for Pete Higgse was not politics as usual. It was a political gut check and Senator Tim Kaine came out swinging. From the very start, Cain made it clear that he wasn't going to tiptoe around polite formalities. He dove straight into the most controversial chapter of Hegathth's past, the October 2017 incident in Mterrey, California. At that time, Hegathth was still married to his second wife, had just fathered a child with the woman who would later become his third wife, and found himself at the center of a criminal investigation. Thank you, Mr. Hgsithth. I'm looking forward to this opportunity to talk. I want to return to the incident that you referenced a minute ago that occurred in Monterey, California in October 2017. At that time, you were still married to your second wife, correct? Uh, I believe so. And you had just fathered a child by a woman who would later become your third wife. Correct. Senator, I was falsely charged. 1:01 Fully investigated and completely cleared. So you think you were completely cleared because you committed no crime. That's your definition of cleared. You had just fathered a child two months before by a woman that was not your wife. I am shocked that you would stand here and say you're completely cleared. Can you so casually cheat on a second wife and cheat on the mother of a child that had been born two months before and you tell us you are completely cleared? How is that a complete clear? Senator Her, the child's name is Gwendel and Hope Hegathth and she's a child of God and she's seven years old and she was and you cheated on the mother of that child less than two months after that daughter was born, didn't you? Those were false charges. fully investigated and I was completely cleared and I am so grateful for the marriage I have to this aditted you've admitted that you had sex at that hotel in October 2017. You said it was consensual. Isn't that correct? 2:00 Anything uh you've admitted that it was consensual and you were still married and you just had a child by another woman. Again, how do you explain your judgment? Completely false charges against me. You you fully investigated and I was completely clear. You have admitted that you had sex while you were married to wife two after you just had fathered a child by wife three. You've admitted that. Now, if it had been a sexual assault, that would be disqualifying to be Secretary of Defense, wouldn't it? It was a false claim then and a false claim now. If it had been a sexual assault, that would be disqualifying to be Secretary of Defense, wouldn't it? That was a false claim. So, you talking about a hypothetical? So, you can't tell me whether someone who has committed a sexual assault is disqualified from being Secretary of Defense. Senator, I know in my instance, and I'm talking about my instance only, it was a false claim. But you acknowledge you acknowledge that you cheated on your wife and that you cheated on the woman who by whom you had 3:00 just fathered a child. You have admitted that. I will allow your words to speak for themselves. You're not retracting that today. That's good. I assume that in each of your weddings, you've pledged to be faithful to your wife. You've taken an oath to do that, haven't you? Senator, as I've acknowledged to everyone in this committee, not a perfect person, not claiming to be. But no, I just asked the simple 3:19 question. You've taken an oath like you 3:21 would take an oath to be Secretary of Defense in all of your weddings to be faithful to your wife. Is that correct? I have failed in things in my life, and thankfully, I'm redeemed by my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. In finalizing divorces from your first and second wives, were there non-disclosure agreements in connection with those divorces? Senator, not that I'm aware of. If there were, would you agree to release um those first and second wives from any confidentiality agreement? Senator, it's not something I'm aware of. But but if there were, you would agree to release them from a confidentiality? Senator, that's not my responsibility. Did you ever engage in any acts of physical violence against any of your wives? Senator, absolutely not. But you would 4:00 agree with me that if someone had committed physical violence against the spouse, that would be disqualifying to serve as Secretary of Defense. Correct, Senator? Absolutely not. Have I ever done that? You would agree that that would be a disqualifying offense, would you not, Senator? You're talking about a hypothetical. Um, I don't think it's a hypothetical. Violence against spouses occurs every day. And if you as a leader are not capable of saying that physical violence against a spouse should be a disqualifying fact for being secretary of the most powerful nation in the world, you're demonstrating an astonishing lack of judgment. The incident in Monterey led to a criminal charge, a criminal investigation, a private settlement, and a cash payment to the woman who filed the complaint. And there was also a non-disclosure agreement. Correct. It was a conf confidential settlement agreement off of a nuisance lawsuit. Right. Uh during an interview, you claimed that you settled the matter 5:00 because you were worried that if it became public, it might hurt your career. Do you maintain that you were blackmailed? Senator, I maintained that false claims were made against me. And ultimately, your attorneys, I have the opportunity to attest my innocence in those false claims. Um, but you didn't reveal any of this to President Trump or the transition team as they were considering you to be nominated for Secretary of Defense. You didn't you didn't reveal the the action. You didn't reveal the criminal complaint. You didn't reveal the criminal investigation. You didn't reveal the settlement. You didn't reveal the cash payment. Why didn't you inform the commander-in-chief and the transition team of this very relevant event? Senator, I've appreciated every part of the process with the transition team. They have been open and honest with me. We've had great conversations between the two of us and uh I appreciate the opportunity that President-elect chose. But you but you you chose not to reveal this, right? Because you knew it would hurt your chances. So, you chose not to 6:00 reveal this really important thing to the commander-in-chief of the transition team because you were worried about your chances rather than trying to be candid with the future president of the United States. Are there any other important facts that you chose not to reveal to the president-elect and his team as they were considering you to be secretary of defense? Senator, I sit here before you in open book as everyone who's watched this process with with multiple non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements tying the hands of many people who would like to comment to us. uh much of much has been made uh of your workplace behavior as a leader of nonprofit veterans organizations and as a Fox News contributor. Um were you fired from either of the leadership positions with the nonprofits? I was the leader I was the CEO of America and director Were you fired from either? I was never fired from a Do you have non-disclosure agreements with either of those organizations? Not that I'm aware of. Senator, many of 7:00 your work colleagues have said that you show up for work under the influence of alcohol or drunk. I know you've denied that, but you would agree with me, right, that if that was the case, that would be disqualifying for somebody to be Secretary of Defense. Senator, those are all anonymous false claims and the totality. They're not they're not anonymous. letters on the record here on the record people. We've seen records with names attached for freedom concerned vets for America and Fox News. One of your colleagues working hard every day on one of your colleagues said that you got drunk at an event at a bar and chanted kill all Muslims. Another colleague, not anonymous, we have this said that you took co-workers to a strip club. You were drunk. You tried to dance with strippers. You had to be held off the stage. and one of your employees in that event filed a sexual harassment charge as a result of it. Now, I know you deny these things, but I isn't that the kind of behavior that if true would be disqualifying for somebody to be Secretary of Defense, 8:01 Senator, anonymous false charges. They're not anonymous. And and I'll just conclude and say this to to the chairman. You claim that this was all anonymous. We have seen records with names attached to all of these, including the name of your own mother. So don't make this into some anonymous press thing. We have seen multiple names of colleagues consistently throughout your career that have talked about your abusive actions. I think he's over time. He's way over his time. I now yield. After a sexual misconduct allegation, Kane's questioning was blunt. He asked Hegathth how he could possibly claim to be completely cleared when the facts showed he had fathered a child outside of his marriage and cheated on the mother of that child just months later. 'How can you stand here and say you were completely cleared?' Cain pressed, 'Hexath repeatedly fell back on the same refrain, that the charges were false, fully investigated, and that he was completely cleared. But Cain didn't let it go. He pressed the moral and 9:00 character issues that go beyond legal clearance.' He asked point blank how Hegth could cheat on his second wife and the mother of his newborn child, then present himself as a man of integrity fit to lead the US Department of Defense. Hegath's response was evasive, leaning heavily on his Christian faith and his acknowledgement that he's not a perfect person, but Cain wasn't buying it. Then the senator turned to the question of oaths. He asked whether Hegathth had pledged fidelity to his wives during his marriages, just as he would pledge to faithfully serve as Secretary of Defense, and he made the implicit point clear. If a man breaks the oaths in his personal life so casually, how can he be trusted with the highest responsibilities in his professional life? Hegath admitted his past failings, but insisted he's redeemed through his faith. From there, Cain shifted to the Monterey incident itself, the one that triggered the criminal investigation, and a later settlement. He forced Hegth to confront the details, a criminal charge, a 10:00 criminal investigation, a cash payment to the woman who made the complaint, and a confidential settlement agreement. Hegath called it a nuisance lawsuit, and maintained that he was innocent. But Cain highlighted what really mattered. Hegathth didn't disclose any of this to President Trump, or the transition team when he was under consideration for Secretary of Defense. He didn't reveal the complaint, the investigation, the settlement, or the cash payment. Kane's message was clear. This wasn't about tabloid gossip. It was about trust, transparency, and whether someone with a pattern of concealment could lead the Pentagon. If you're willing to hide critical facts from a president to protect your own ambition, how can the nation trust you with the highest level of military authority? But Cain wasn't finished. He pressed Hegathth on whether there were non-disclosure agreements tied to his divorces from his first and second wives. Hegath said he wasn't aware of any, but Cain pushed the implication if NDAs exist, they could be 11:00 silencing people with important information about his character. Cain even asked if Hegathth would release those wives from any confidentiality agreements. Hegathth dodged the question. Then the hearing moved into even darker territory. Allegations of workplace misconduct and substance abuse. Cain cited on the record statements from Hegathth's former colleagues at veteran organizations and Fox News. These weren't anonymous whispers. These were named sources alleging that Hegathth showed up to work drunk, chanted, 'Kill all Muslims at a bar, and took co-workers to a strip club where he got drunk, tried to dance with strippers, and had to be pulled off the stage.' One of these incidents even led to a sexual harassment complaint from an employee. Hegathth dismissed them all as false and politically motivated, but Cain pointed out that many of the reports had names attached, including, incredibly, a statement from Hegath's own mother. Kane's line of questioning painted a picture of a man with a long trail of alleged misconduct. A man quick to deny, deflect, and hide behind legal 12:02 settlements instead of owning his actions. The takeaway from this hearing was unmistakable. Tim Kaine's questioning wasn't about scoring partisan points. It was about integrity. He laid out the argument that leading the Department of Defense is about more than TV fame or political connections. It's about character, trust, and moral judgment. If someone can't be truthful about their own past, if they've repeatedly failed in their personal responsibilities, if they've concealed critical information to protect themselves, how can they possibly be trusted to lead the US military? Kane's performance was a masterclass in accountability. He hammered home a truth that often gets lost in the swirl of politics. Leadership is about more than credentials. It's about credibility, and credibility comes from character. Whether you agree with Cain or not, the hearing left a serious question hanging in the air. If this is the man being considered to oversee the most powerful military on the planet, are we comfortable with the risk that comes 13:00 with a nominee whose past is clouded by controversy, secrecy, and repeated lapses in judgment? What we saw in that hearing was more than political theater. It was a public test of character. And on that test, Pete Higgseeth's answers left more doubt than reassurance. So, what do you think? Should personal integrity and full transparency be non-negotiable for anyone leading the Pentagon? Or do you think a nominee's private life should stay private if no crimes were ultimately proven? Drop your thoughts in the comments below. And don't forget to like, share, and subscribe for more deep dives into the stories shaping our nation.

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