The Expected Outcome of Allowing a Rapist to Make Hiring Decisions

I am convinced that there will be no happy ending to the second reign of Drumpf for the MAGA faithful. Mark those words.

How does The Gadfly know this?

Well, it's a pretty easy thing to predict when the leader of MAGA's cult continues to hire people for critical positions within his administration who are wholly unqualified buffoons.  

A prime example of that is Drumpf's selection of Fox weekend TV talk show co-host Pete Hegseth to be the next American Secretary of Defense.  The person in this position would be in charge of every branch of the US military, and sets the moral tone and example for millions of U.S. military personnel here at home and abroad.

Drumpf selected Hegseth not because of Hegseth's low-level officer military background.  Nor did he select Hegseth because he possesses any background in managing or leading large numbers of people in a complex governmental organization.  No, DonOld chose Pete Hegseth for the highest military position in our government because Hegseth hates the same people DonOld hates, mouths white nationalist talking points, and says nice things about DonOld on his Fox "news" TV show.

Here's how laughably badly DonOld and his people failed to vet, or more likely chose to ignore the background on Pete Hegseth.

First there's the history of Hegseth's serial adultery and workplace sexual shenanigans.  

Then we find out that Hegseth paid hush money to a woman whom he apparently raped after slipping a roofie into her drink in a 2017 incident at a hotel in California [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/police-report-details-alleged-sexual-assault-trumps-defense-pick-pete-rcna181137].  

Now we hear from Hegseth's own mother that he is a deeply damaged individual who apparently, according to his own mother, has an extensive history of treating women like shit.

Take a gander at what Mama Hegseth had to say about her own son, to his own face:

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙚𝙩𝙚 𝙃𝙚𝙜𝙨𝙚𝙩𝙝, 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩-𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝘿𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙙 𝙅. 𝙏𝙧𝙪𝙢𝙥’𝙨 𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙠 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙙𝙚𝙛𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙚, 𝙬𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙚 𝙝𝙞𝙢 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙞𝙡 𝙞𝙣 2018 𝙨𝙖𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙚𝙙 𝙖 𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙧.

“𝙊𝙣 𝙗𝙚𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙛 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣 (𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙄 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙞𝙩’𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙮) 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙗𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙮, 𝙄 𝙨𝙖𝙮 … 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙥 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙖𝙣 𝙝𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛,” 𝙋𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙚 𝙃𝙚𝙜𝙨𝙚𝙩𝙝 𝙬𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙚, 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙙 𝙝𝙞𝙢.

𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙤 𝙬𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙚: “𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙣𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚𝙨, 𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙨, 𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙨, 𝙨𝙡𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙬𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙜𝙤. 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙣.

Link: Pete Hegseth’s Mother Accused Her Son of Mistreating Women for Years - The New York Times

Yikes!  Mama Hegseth kind of laid it all out on the table there, didn't she?  She knows her son has a history of treating women badly and was telling him so personally.

Now do you understand why Drumpf and his toadies don't want any of his appointees to undergo standard national security background checks by the FBI?  It's because he has a history of hiring shady, unsavory, morally repugnant yes men to surround himself with, that's why.

Putting Pete Hegseth in as the head of the DOD is essentially DonOld's way of giving every single American and every American soldier, airman, marine and sailor a big middle finger.  It's DonOld's way of saying to every one of us, "I am the King now, thou shalt bow to my will in all I do."

But this is what you asked for you Trump voters.  You voted for incompetence and unscrupulousness and phoniness, and soon enough the tragic results of that foolish choice will become unmistakably clear, even for those MAGAs whose wool is pulled the tightest over their own eyes.

--- TFG