{"id":2375717,"date":"2024-12-02T20:53:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T01:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tuberville-advises-hegseth-to-combat-allegations-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T20:55:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T01:55:35","slug":"tuberville-advises-hegseth-to-combat-allegations-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tuberville-advises-hegseth-to-combat-allegations-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuberville advises Hegseth to combat allegations &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftuberville-advises-hegseth-to-combat-allegations-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2375717&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senator\u2062 Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), a close \u200bally of President-elect Donald Trump, has urged\u2064 Secretary of\u2063 Defense nominee Pete Hegseth to confront serious allegations that could jeopardize\u2062 his confirmation. Hegseth, \u2064a veteran and \u200bformer\u2062 Fox News host, has\u200d faced scrutiny over\u200b his lack of government experience and recent\u200c allegations of personal and\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/proposed-bill-would-give-n-y-gov-power-to-detain-citizens-deemed-a-public-health-hazard\/\" title=\"Proposed bill would give N.Y. Gov. power to detain citizens deemed a \u2018public health hazard\u2019\">sexual misconduct<\/a>, including financial mismanagement \u2063of veterans\u2019 advocacy\u2063 groups and issues with alcohol. Following a private meeting, Tuberville emphasized that Hegseth needs \u200bto reach out to the media and\u2064 win \u2064over at least 51 senators for his confirmation to be accomplished. \u2062Despite the challenges,Tuberville endorsed Hegseth as a friend who would bring\u200d needed discipline to the military and eliminate &#8220;woke&#8221; \u2064ideologies.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Tuberville advises Trump Pentagon nominee Hegseth to combat allegations<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1889238\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/sen-tommy-tuberville\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Tommy Tuberville\">Tommy Tuberville<\/a> (R-AL), a close ally of President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a>, urged Secretary of Defense nominee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pete-hegseth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Pete Hegseth<\/a> on Monday to face head-on allegations threatening to derail his confirmation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The veteran and former Fox News host has come under intense scrutiny for his lack of government experience and newly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3246970\/pete-hegseth-resigned-nonprofit-groups-sexual-misconduct-financial-mismanagement-allegations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"unearthed reports\">unearthed reports<\/a> of personal and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">sexual misconduct dating back years<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/pete-hegseths-secret-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">latest being<\/a> claims of financially mismanaging veterans&rsquo; advocacy groups and repeated intoxication.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Eventually, he&rsquo;s going to have to come out and start visiting with the media,&rdquo; Tuberville told reporters following a private meeting with the Cabinet nominee. &ldquo;I think right now, his No. 1 objective is to go out and sell himself to at least 51 or 52 senators. That&rsquo;s the job he needs to do to get confirmed. At the end of the day, he&rsquo;s got to be well prepared for the hearings.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Still, Tuberville offered a full-throated endorsement of Hegseth, whom he described as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hogan-and-alsobrooks-sling-insults-in-high-stakes-senate-debate-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Hogan and Alsobrooks sling insults in high-stakes Senate debate - Washington Examiner\">longtime personal friend<\/a> who would act as a much-needed &ldquo;drill sergeant&rdquo; to &ldquo;straighten the military out, to get the woke DEI affiliation out.&rdquo; Tuberville will play a role in advancing Hegseth&rsquo;s nomination from the Senate Armed Services Committee, which will hold a confirmation hearing in January.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s not going to be anything to this, at the end of the day,&rdquo; Tuberville said, noting he did not discuss with Hegseth the various personal allegations levied against him but has done so in previous conversations.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He had a good explanation, but I&rsquo;m not going to try to explain to y&rsquo;all about his personal endeavors over the many years,&rdquo; Tuberville continued. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s up to him.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth, responding briefly to reporters in the halls of the Capitol in between meetings with senators, appeared unwilling to heed Tuberville&rsquo;s advice for a PR tour.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not going to dignify that with a response,&rdquo; Hegseth told a reporter when prompted whether he was ever drunk on the job at Concerned Veterans for America. &ldquo;I look forward to talking to senators.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth was president of the organization from 2013 to 2016 but was reportedly pushed out over claims by staffers of sexual misconduct against female employees and inappropriate intoxication at work-related events. A <em>New Yorker<\/em> story, which reported the details, also featured accusations that Hegseth financially mismanaged a separate group years prior called Vets for Freedom.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump&rsquo;s nominee to be defense secretary, meets with Sen. Tommy Tuberville R-Alabama, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A 2017 police report of a sexual assault allegedly committed by Hegseth was previously revealed, but the incident did not lead to criminal charges, and Hegseth has said it was a consensual encounter with an unnamed woman.<\/p>\n<p>Tuberville, the Auburn-football-coach-turned-United-States-senator, has a cozy relationship with Trump and has been a leading critic of so<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-biden-unveils-immigration-bill-leftwing-activists-call-for-end-to-filibuster-to-ram-it-through\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Biden Unveils Immigration Bill, Leftwing Activists Call For End To Filibuster To Ram It Through\">-called diversity<\/a>, equity, and inclusion policies that he says have kneecapped the U.S. military under President Joe Biden. He also led a one-manned blockade lasting nearly a year against hundreds of military promotions in protest of the administration&rsquo;s Pentagon abortion policy for active-duty women but ultimately relented in December 2023 amid growing frustration from fellow Republicans he was weakening the armed services.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3223892\/president-elect-donald-trump-cabinet-picks-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>TRUMP CABINET PICKS: WHO&rsquo;S BEEN TAPPED TO SERVE IN THE PRESIDENT-ELECT&rsquo;S ADMINISTRATION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tuberville described Hegseth as a &ldquo;warfighter, somebody that&rsquo;s not for the upper echelon.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s to make the military stronger, better trained, put the money in the right spot,&rdquo; Tuberville said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s going to be for the people that actually do the fighting, not for the people that plan the fighting.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1889238\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1889238\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuberville urges Hegseth to address confirmation allegations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3108,"featured_media":2375718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/pete-hegseth-meets-with-tommy-tuberville.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5609,45173,6305,32076],"class_list":["post-2375717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-allegations","tag-hegseth","tag-tuberville","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/pete-hegseth-meets-with-tommy-tuberville.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2375717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2375721,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375717\/revisions\/2375721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2375718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2375717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2375717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2375717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}