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Zorro

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Mon Mar 31, 2025, 01:36 PM Mar 2025

Why Is Pete Hegseth Bringing His Third Wife To Sensitive Security Meetings? [View all]

Before it broke that SecDef Pete Hegseth was shooting the breeze in the emoji fist bump live-chat while war-crime-bombing residential neighborhoods with children in them, eyebrows had already been raised at the Pentagon because of how he’d been flaunting his lack of interest in OPSEC by bringing along his third wife Jennifer Rauchet Hegseth to very need-to-know-basis-only meetings.

The wife, of course, has no need to know anything, she is not a government employee, or an employee anywhere. She met Pete when she was a producer on “Fox & Friends,” that morning show he reportedly showed up drunk to a lot, but she’s quit and now her full-time job is caring for Pete.

Pete was married to another lady — Samantha — when he met Jen, a lady who he reportedly terrorized so badly that she had to hide in a closet with a code word, and Pete’s own mother was so horrified by him at one point that she called him an “an abuser of women” who “belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego” and scolded him to “Get some help and take an honest look at yourself.” In August 2017, while still married to Samantha, Hegseth's daughter Gwen was born to Jen. In September 2017, Samantha filed for divorce, and in October Pete was accused of rape. While his baby was two months old!

We guess Jen still thought Pete was a great catch anyway, and after he finalized his divorce from Samantha they got married.

Jennifer on Instagram: “They won’t stop with Pete. It’s not him they’re after. It’s your values. We won’t back down. 🇺🇸Psalm 27”

Which values, one wonders.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/why-is-pete-hegseth-bringing-his

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