BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK
(MAR-A-LAGO, FLORIDA)
President-elect Donald Trump is rewarding loyalty again, this time to a Fox and Friends host named Pete Hegseth.
Hegseth served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army Reserve and the National Guard in New Jersey. He had the rank of Major when he was discharged. Controversy surrounds Hegseth, with his iron cross tattoos and outspoken vision of religion and government.
In fact, Pete Hegseth was removed from deployment for having controversial tattoos.
Hegseth told podcaster and former Navy Seal Shawn Ryan, “I was deemed an ‘extremist’ because of a tattoo by my National Guard unit in Washington, D.C. … my orders were revoked to guard the Biden inauguration.”
The tattoo, which Hegseth called a Jerusalem cross, “is just a Christian symbol,” he told Ryan.
Early life and education
Hegseth was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Brian, a basketball coach, and Penny Hegseth. He was raised in nearby Forest Lake and is of Norwegian descent on both sides of the family. He attended Forest Lake Area High School, where he played football and basketball, graduating in 1999 as valedictorian of his class.
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.
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. He and Deering divorced in August 2017. Hegseth and Rauchet, who has three young children from her first marriage, married in August 2019.
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. Hegseth reportedly dismissed the allegations as a "he-said, she-said" dispute about a consensual encounter. No charges were filed in the case.
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