Penelope Hegseth wrote that Donald Trump's selection for secretary of defense "belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego"

The mother of Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s pick for Defense Secretary, is speaking out after the New York Times reported that she accused him of mistreating women in a newly surfaced email. She has since defended her son and disavowed what she said in that email.

Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's pick for defense secretary, was accused by his mother of being "an abuser of women" during his 2018 divorce,The New York Times reported.