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BaronChocula

(4,976 posts)
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 04:21 PM 22 hrs ago

Buttigieg says his family was target of 'politically motivated hoax'

Source: MS Now

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said his family has been targeted in a “politically motivated hoax” after someone made a false report to Child Protective Services alleging he committed crimes against his children.

“An anonymous caller had contacted CPS,” Buttigieg wrote in a post on Substack on Friday. “The caller said that he had spoken to a woman who claimed to have met me at a conference several years ago in Alabama, where she said I told her that I had committed unspeakable violent crimes, and the caller believed my children were still at risk.”

Buttigieg, a prominent Democrat and potential 2028 presidential contender, likened the incident to “swatting” — when someone calls 911 to falsely report an immediate threat, often at a public figure’s home — “but with Child Protective Services instead of a SWAT team.”

Read more: https://www.ms.now/news/buttigieg-says-his-family-was-target-of-politically-motivated-hoax



Watching Nicolle cover this with guests including Ian Bassin, executive director of Protect Democracy who said something by way of "we all need to take the temperature down." How disappointing for him to promote the right-wing notion that this is both sides.
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wcmagumba

(6,993 posts)
1. I believe the caller committed a crime by lying in their horribly false call. They should be doxed and put up on charges
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 04:29 PM
22 hrs ago

BaronChocula

(4,976 posts)
3. Sec'y Pete mentioned the fact that it's a crime
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 04:35 PM
22 hrs ago

to make false reports. I'm waiting to hear on some legal follow-up.

electric_blue68

(27,928 posts)
9. I hadn't really heard about this till a repeat of Jen Psaki's report on this..
Sat Jun 27, 2026, 01:33 AM
13 hrs ago

How hideous to lie like that!

Hope they find her, and charge her!

Catlady123

(87 posts)
2. Despicable monsters
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 04:33 PM
22 hrs ago

To put those children through this. This could have a lasting effect on them. Monsters are amongst us. Ugh

Karasu

(2,324 posts)
5. "We all need to take the temperature down"...we? Only one side is trying to get people they don't like killed, even
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 04:54 PM
21 hrs ago

resorting to shit like this.

mntleo2

(2,660 posts)
7. Alot of Anti-LGBTQ+ people think gay men are child abusers
Fri Jun 26, 2026, 11:27 PM
15 hrs ago

...for what reason, I have no idea. It is stupid and ridiculous. My uncle was gay and the safest, funniest, creative man any kid could ever be with. I loved him to death ~ and so did my cousins of both genders. Sheesh!
Cat from Seattle

BaronChocula

(4,976 posts)
11. The least marginalized people look for ways
Sat Jun 27, 2026, 02:17 AM
12 hrs ago

to malign more marginalized people because it makes them feel in control. Some people actually believe myths about people who are different from them and others repeat those myths knowing they're false, because they're just terrible people - the type of people who would call CPS on gay parents with a fabricated story of abuse.

Stargazer99

(3,606 posts)
8. This shows the present administration function just like the MAFIA
Sat Jun 27, 2026, 12:06 AM
14 hrs ago

Government by and for criminal acts to control the masses by fear

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