Pete Hegseth’s mother has a name: Penelope. In a 2018 email, she — Penelope Hegseth — called out her son as a man who had “abused” women (“belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around and uses”) throughout his life.
The woman who accused Hegseth of raping her at a fall 2017 conference, resulting in a police report but no criminal prosecution, also has a name: Hegseth paid her an undisclosed sum to make the allegation go away, his attorney currently threatening to sue her if she comes forward and repeats the claim again.
