
Pete Hegseth's own mother accused him of being abusive toward women in a 2018 email.
Penelope Hegseth reached out to her son — a former Fox News host who is currently under consideration to serve as Donald Trump's secretary of defense — to criticize him while he was going through a particularly contentious divorce. Penelope Hegseth called her son no good and abusive in the flame-throwing message that stuck up for his ex-wife Samantha.