Democrats Say F.B.I. Did Not Interview Critical Witnesses About Pete Hegseth

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/us/fbi-pete-hegseth-background-check.html

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  2. I mean why would they? Then Hegseth may actually not get confirmed. And the FBI agent that interviewed the witness would be almost immediately be targeted/fired/harassed/arrested when trump takes office.

    We all need to understand something. For at least the next 4 years and likely longer, the Federal government does not work for us. Its purpose is not to solve problems for Americans, keep us safe, uphold justice, or fulfill any of the other millions of responsibilities that a Federal government has to its people. No, the purpose of our Federal Government is to give donald trump the narcissistic supply he craves, and to harm anyone that would stand in the way of his supply. That is what your tax dollars are going to, that is what government employees will be working on, that is what our entire government will be focused on.

  4. The funny/sad thing is you dont even need to have an FBI investigation to know that Hegseth is unequivocally unqualified for the position. He has a well documented problem with alcohol. He has a well documented problem sexually harassing/assaulting his employees. He has a well documented problem not even being able to run a charity with a handful of employees properly.

  5. i mean while yes it would definitely drive home he’s incapable im positive not a single democrat will push him through. or at least the majority and he can’t afford to lose too many votes right?

  7. Remember when it was revealed that the FBI actively ignored tips in the kavanaugh investigation at the request of the trump folks?

  8. Color me shocked! Thune did tell Trump that the votes were pretty much settled so this isn’t a shock

  10. I don’t wanna be one of those people, but to everyone else in the comments right now, why are you guys still getting worked up over stuff like this?

    We literally just watched the Supreme Court say Trump is immune. But you expect our elected officials and government to follow the rules and check all the boxes on shit like this? That ship sailed forever ago, it’s not even worth it to read shit like this or bother anymore.

    Sit back and see if we hit rock bottom and people wake up, but this shit obviously doesn’t matter anymore because the system won’t hold people accountable and is just protecting their own.

  11. He could have taken a big fat steaming shit on the Senate floor but as long as he kisses the ring he’ll be taken in, until he does or says anything that isn’t in line with Trump’s priorities that week they’ll kick him to the curb. Same as it ever was.

  12. If he’s like any other previous Trump appointee, he’ll be gone in 6 months.

  13. So the FBI is in on the game too. Well we knew that. All the law enforcement and military and paramilitary type organizations are far more majority right wing than the general population. They have only ever given lip service to Democracy while suppressing it every step of the way.

  16. This is the most moronic thing about all of this: You’re telling me that you couldn’t take the top 1000 officers by rank across all of the DoD, and filter by only those who are really die hard MAGA fans, and you can’t find a handful of people who have far more experience than this guy??

  17. From the sounds of this I have had athletes ai coaches get more thorough background checks for admission to military academies. I even had one graduate and I got a call almost a decade later when he was interviewing for secret service commission. I was his coach not even related, and Hegseth’s ex spouse and accuser aren’t interviewed, that’s ludicrous.

  19. It’s interesting to me – what is it about this guy that the republicans will do just about anything to get him into this position? There must be some level of value. Or he knows things that republicans dont want public.

  20. Not a surprise at all. It reminds me of all of the witnesses that the FBI never interviewed re: Kavanagh.

    > The report, “Unworthy of Reliance: The Flawed Supplemental Background Investigation Into Sexual-Assault Allegations Against Justice Brett Kavanaugh,” notes that in 2018, it was public knowledge that the FBI had never directly questioned Ford or Kavanagh directly about the misconduct claims and attorneys for Ford and provided the FBI “with dozens of names of additional witnesses whom the attorneys said could corroborate” Ford’s claims, the report found. But these leads were never fully pursued.

    >In the end, the FBI conducted just 10 interviews.

  21. Not “democrats say,” they literally didn’t. How do you not interview the alleged victims??

  23. I can see that. I mean how they _uck up over Brett Kavanaugh

  24. Of course they didn’t. They’re following the Kavanaugh playbook…

  26. GOP wants FBI background check, they just don’t want the FBI to interview anyone who might say something critical.

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