Pete Hegseth

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Peter Brian Hegseth (born June 6, 1980) is an American television presenter, author, and Army National Guard officer who is the nominee for United States Secretary of Defense in Donald Trump's second cabinet. A political commentator for Fox News since 2014 and co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend from 2017 to 2024, he was previously the executive director of Vets for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America.

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Hegseth has been active in conservative and Republican politics since his undergraduate days at Princeton University. In 2016, he emerged as a strong supporter and ally of Donald Trump's presidential candidacy and served as an occasional advisor to Trump throughout the latter's first term as president. He reportedly persuaded Trump to pardon three American soldiers accused or convicted of war crimes related to the shooting of non-combatants in Iraq. Hegseth, who was a platoon leader at Guantanamo Bay during his military service, defended the treatment of inmates detained there. [1]

Hegseth was considered to lead the United States Department of Veterans Affairs in the first Trump administration, prior to the selection of David Shulkin in 2017. In November 2024, President-elect Trump announced that he intended to nominate Hegseth for secretary of defense.

Early life and education

Hegseth was born on June 6, 1980, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Brian, a basketball coach, and Penny Hegseth. [2] [3] [4] He was raised in nearby Forest Lake [5] and is of Norwegian descent on both sides of the family. [6] He attended Forest Lake Area High School, where he played football and basketball, graduating in 1999 as valedictorian of his class.

Hegseth went on to receive his Bachelor of Arts in politics at Princeton University in 2003. [7] [8] While there, he wrote for The Princeton Tory magazine [9] and played basketball for the Tigers under coach John Thompson III. [10] [11] Their team made the NCAA tournament in 2001. [12] [13]

In 2013, he received a Master of Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. [14]

Military career

Following graduation from Princeton in 2003, Hegseth joined Bear Stearns as an equity capital markets analyst and was also commissioned as an infantry officer in the Minnesota National Guard. [15] In 2004 his unit was called to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, where he served as an infantry platoon leader with the Minnesota Army National Guard. His unit was under the operational control of the 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment 101st Airborne Division. He was awarded the Army Commendation Medal. Shortly after returning from Cuba, Hegseth volunteered to serve in Baghdad and Samarra, where he held the position of infantry platoon leader and, later in Samarra, as Civil–Military Operations Officer. During his time in Iraq, he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, Combat Infantryman Badge, and a second Army Commendation Medal. [16] [ citation needed ]

He returned to active duty in 2012 as a captain. [17] He deployed to Afghanistan with the Minnesota Army National Guard and acted as a senior counterinsurgency instructor at the Counterinsurgency Training Center in Kabul.[ citation needed ]

By 2015 or 2016, Hegseth had been promoted to the rank of major, and was assigned to the Army Individual Ready Reserve. [18]

In 2020, Hegseth volunteered as one of the up-to-25,000 National Guard troops authorized by the Pentagon to be put on active duty to protect the inauguration of President Joe Biden on January 20, 2021, but was one of 12 soldiers removed from that mission. [19] [20] Hegseth attributed his removal from the assignment to a "Jerusalem Cross tattoo, which is just a Christian symbol." [19] Hegseth said his National Guard superiors determined his tattoos were connected to extremism. [21] Hegseth had also been reported by a fellow national guardsman in his unit as a potential "insider threat" for a second tattoo, reading "Deus Vult," which has been used by white supremacists. [22]

Conservative activism

Upon return from Iraq, Hegseth worked briefly at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. According to his LinkedIn page, Hegseth left the conservative think tank in 2007 to work as executive director at Vets For Freedom. [23] His role included responding to the Federal Election Commission as "treasurer" of the organization. [24] [25] He worked at Vets for Freedom until 2012. [23] The organization advocated a greater troop presence in Iraq and Afghanistan. [23]

In 2012, Hegseth formed the political action committee MN PAC. [23] An APM Reports analysis found that while Hegseth ran the MN PAC political action committee, one-third of its $15,000 in funds were spent on Christmas parties for families and friends. Campaign finance laws in Minnesota do not prohibit such spending. Less than half of the PAC's resources were spent on candidates, and as of March 2018, the PAC had closed its account with the state board. [23]

Hegseth was the executive director for Concerned Veterans for America, an advocacy group funded by the Koch brothers. [26] The group advocated greater privatization of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). [26] According to his LinkedIn page, he left the group in 2015. [26]

While Hegseth was its chief executive, Concerned Veterans for America hired his brother Philip to work for the non-profit and paid him $108,000 according to tax records from 2016 and 2017. Asked about it, Hegseth's lawyer said that Philip, a May 2015 university graduate, was qualified for the media relations job, and noted there is no prohibition against private entities hiring family members. [23]

Hegseth was considered to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs in the first Trump administration, prior to the selection of David Shulkin in 2017. [27] [28]

Senate campaign

In 2012, Hegseth ran for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota. [23] He withdrew from the race after the May 2012 convention, before the Republican primary election in August, [29] [30] both events in which Kurt Bills won the nomination.

Punditry

During the 2016 Republican presidential primaries, Hegseth initially backed Marco Rubio, then Ted Cruz, and ultimately Donald Trump. [23] Since then, Hegseth has emerged as a strong Trump supporter. [23] As a Fox News personality, he frequently criticized the media and Democrats. He criticized Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. [23] Hegseth has appeared on Fox News Channel, as well as on CNN and MSNBC. [31]

Fox News

Hegseth joined Fox News as a contributor in 2014. [23] [32] In December 2018, Hegseth co-hosted Fox News Channel's All-American New Year with Fox Business Network's Kennedy, during which a pre-recorded telephone interview between him and President Trump was broadcast. [33] [34] He has been a regular guest on Unfiltered with Dan Bongino since 2021. [35] [36]

On June 14, 2015, Hegseth accidentally hit a West Point drummer with an axe while filming a live TV segment in honor of Flag Day. [37] The drummer said that he sustained "only minor injuries." The New York Daily News reported that in a later segment, the drummer was "seen cheerfully speaking on camera as if the accident never took place." [37]

Campaign to pardon war criminals

In May 2019, it was reported that Trump was considering pardoning several US military service members who had been convicted of committing war crimes, including a veteran set to stand trial for shooting indiscriminately at civilians, hitting a girl and an elderly man, [38] as well as fatally stabbing a captured teenage Islamic State (ISIS) member while he was receiving medical treatment. The Daily Beast and CNN later reported that Hegseth had sought to convince Trump to pardon these individuals for months. At the same time, Hegseth was discussing these cases on Fox News without disclosing that he had advised Trump to pardon them. [39] [40] In November 2019, Trump pardoned three service members accused or convicted of war crimes. Shortly before Trump announced his decision, Hegseth suggested that Trump was about to take "imminent action" in the cases. [41] [42]

Political positions

Hegseth's political positions have been described as Christian nationalist. In his book, American Crusade: Our Fight to Stay Free, he said he believes there are "irreconcilable differences between the Left and the Right in America leading to perpetual conflict that cannot be resolved through the political process". He furthermore called for an "American crusade", which he described as "a holy war for the righteous cause of human freedom". Hegseth has expressed the idea that the US is a constitutional republic and not a democracy. In a May 2024 interview where he talked about education, Hegseth said "Democracy, democracy, defend the democracy. Do you know what our founders did not want us to be? A democracy." [43]

COVID-19

In February 2020, amid the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Hegseth said that Democrats were "rooting for coronavirus to spread. They're rooting for it to grow. They're rooting for the problem to get worse." [36] the next month, Hegseth urged healthy people to get the virus to build immunity. [44] Hegseth suggested the Omicron variant of COVID-19 was made up by Democrats to help them in the 2022 midterm elections, saying "Count on a variant about every October, every two years." [45]

January 6th Capitol Attack

In response to the January 6 United States Capitol attack, Hegseth defended the crowd as patriots, claiming that that they had been "been re-awoken to the reality of what the left has done" to the country. He also defended QAnon and January 6th figure Jacob Chansley and also claimed that only a handful of military personell had been at the attack. [46]

Colleges

In August 2019, he lamented that "young kids voting" are worried about the adverse effects of climate change. Hegseth also criticized universities for teaching students about "environmentalism and radical environmentalism" rather than a "real threat" such as Islamic extremism. [47]

In June 2022, on a Fox & Friends Weekend segment, Hegseth crossed out Harvard on his diploma, writing in "Critical Theory" and then marking "RETURN TO SENDER" across the central body as a protest of Harvard and other such universities. "People will say 'this is just a stunt, you still have a degree' and that's fine. I went, I got the degree, I walked to the classes and all that, but I hope this is a statement that as conservatives and patriots, if we love this country, we can't keep sending our kids and elevating them to universities that are poisoning their mind. I may have survived it, but a lot of kids go there and buy into 'critical theory university,' and that's how we get future leaders, Supreme Court Justices, Senators, others, who see America as an evil place. And Harvard is a factory for that kind of thinking" he said. Hegseth then declared his intention to return the diploma to Harvard. [48]

Foreign affairs

Hegseth has been sharpy critical of America's NATO allies, writing "Outdated, outgunned, invaded, and impotent. Why should America, the European 'emergency contact number' for the past century, listen to self-righteous and impotent nations asking us to honor outdated and one-sided defense arrangements they no longer live up to?" and "Maybe if NATO countries actually ponied up for their own defense — but they don't. They just yell about the rules while gutting their militaries and yelling at America for help" in his book. [49] In 2022, he said the Russian invasion of Ukraine "pales in comparison" to "wokeness" and crime. [50] He has also voiced criticism towards US military aid to Ukraine. [49]

Hegseth has referred to Israel as "God's chosen people" in a 2016 interview. [49] Hegseth spoke at the 2018 Arutz Sheva conference in Jerusalem, where he stated "there's no reason why the miracle of the re-establishment of the Temple on the Temple Mount is not possible." [51] Speaking at the National Council of Young Israel gala in New York City the same year, he said "Zionism and Americanism are the front lines of Western civilization and freedom in our world today." [52]

Hegseth has called Iran's government an "evil regime". In January 2020, Hegseth expressed strong support for president Trump's decision to kill Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. [53] [54] He also called on Trump to bomb the Iranian homeland, including cultural sites if they were storing weapons. [55] Hegseth has said China is creating a military "specifically dedicated to defeating the United States of America". [49]

Islam

In American Crusade, Hegseth says Islam "is not a religion of peace, and it never has been" and claims "all modern Muslim countries are either formal or de facto no-go zones for practicing Christians and Jews". He said Islam was "almost entirely captured and leveraged by Islamists." He claimed Islamists plan to demographically, culturally and politically "conquer" Europe and America, allying with secularism to crush "our nation’s Judeo-Christian institutions". He said Islamists plan to "seed the West with as many Muslims as possible" and "thanks to their very high birth rates relative to native populations and their strategically insular culture — the sons and daughters of those migrants and refugees multiply in greater numbers than do native citizens." He pointed out the elections of Muslim officials in the United Kingdom and the increase of the Muslim population in Europe to say that the United States will follow the same path without an intervention. [56]

Military

Hegseth has said that he wants to fire General Charles Q. Brown Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Hegseth also wants to purge the military of "woke" generals and DEI programs, saying that “any general that was involved, general, admiral, whatever, that was involved in any of the DEI, woke shit has got to go.” [57] Hegseth also criticized the US military slogan "our diversity is our strength", calling it the "dumbest phrase on planet Earth". [58] He has criticized to counter extremism within the US military, writing "Rooting out ‘extremism,’ today’s generals push rank-and-file patriots out of their formations" in his 2024 book, the The War on Warriors. [43] Hagseth has opposed including women in combat roles, saying in 2024 "I’m straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles." [50] He also opposes transgender troops in the military. [56]

U.S. secretary of defense

In November 2024, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he intended to nominate Hegseth to serve as the next secretary of defense. [59] Hegseth's deal with Fox News ended that month in order for him to take the position. [60] [61] [62] Hegseth's selection was a surprise, with one defense official saying, "Everyone is simply shocked." [63]

Personal life

Hegseth and his first wife, Meredith Schwarz, divorced in 2009. He married his second wife, Samantha Deering, in 2010; they have three children. [23]

In August 2017, while still married to Deering, Hegseth had a daughter with Fox executive producer Jennifer Rauchet, with whom he was having an extramarital relationship. [23] He and Deering divorced in August 2017. Hegseth and Rauchet, who has three young children from her first marriage, married in August 2019. [64]

In October 2017, Hegseth was accused of sexual assault in a hotel room after speaking at a California Federation of Republican Women event in Monterey, California. [65] Hegseth reportedly dismissed the allegations as a "he-said, she-said" dispute about a consensual encounter. [66] No charges were filed in the case. [65]

Books

Hegseth wrote the foreword to the 2017 book The Case Against the Establishment ( ISBN   978-1-6826-1474-7) by Nick Adams and Dave Erickson. [67] His books include:

Awards, decorations, and badges

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Bronze Star (x2)
Joint Service Commendation ribbon.svg Joint Service Commendation Medal
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Army Commendation Medal (x2)
National Defense Service Medal ribbon.svg National Defense Service Medal
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Afghanistan Campaign Medal ribbon.svg
Afghanistan Campaign Medal (with 2 service stars)
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Iraq Campaign Medal ribbon.svg
Iraq Campaign Medal (with 2 service stars)
Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal ribbon.svg Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal
Global War on Terrorism Service Medal ribbon.svg Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
Armed Forces Reserve Medal ribbon.svg Armed Forces Reserve Medal (with bronze hourglass device)
Army Service Ribbon.svg Army Service Ribbon
Army Overseas Service Ribbon.svg Army Overseas Service Ribbon
NATO Medal ISAF ribbon bar.svg NATO Medal (ISAF)

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